Mich. Parole Votes To Release Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick From Prison, Fed. Case Pending

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS



DETROIT — The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison in late July, a decision that gives him plenty of time to prepare for a federal corruption trial that could land him back behind bars for years.

Kilpatrick, 41, will be freed from prison no earlier than July 24, said Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Kilpatrick quit office in 2008 when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a case that was tied to his cover-up of an extramarital affair with his chief of staff. He has been in prison since May 2010 when a judge found he had misled authorities and failed to turn over certain assets toward his $1 million restitution to Detroit.

Parole cases typically are heard by three-member panels. Marlan said Kilpatrick’s never got to a third member because the other two already were in favor of releasing him, including chairman Tom Combs.

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[Corruption Winz]

1. I can see why this guy was elected...

“One of the things I’ve learned over the past year is to be a man of my word.”

Only took him 41 years.

[24601]

2. I thought it was OK if you lied & obstructed justice when asked

about sex. After all, doesn't everyone do it?

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Shhh! This Is Different

Kwame Kilpatrick is, you know, a "thug".

[classysassy]

3. We put the small fish in jail

while the big fish go free and continue to profit from their criminal activities.Bush/Chaney the two biggest criminal of the 21st century.