Feds: Troy's fired city manager ran office like Kwame, had 'god complex'
A just-released court memo in the bribery case of Troy’s fired city manager lays out a trail of ethical breaches worse than previously known — a record of theft and double-dealing so egregious that federal prosecutors compared the hi-jinks at Troy City Hall to the era of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
While Detroit's nemesis is serving an 28-year prison sentence, former Troy City Manager Brian Kischnick faces sentencing on a bribery charge Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Although Kischnick’s attorney argues he should serve 26 to 37 months behind bars, the new 51-page memo from prosecutors says he should get roughly double that — 55 months.
The government's lawyers cite a litany of offenses not fully revealed when Kischnick pleaded guilty last fall, including much more extensive pay-to-play scheming with a major city contractor, the apparent extortion of an apartment complex owner to gain years of free use of a $1,200-a-month unit and rental furniture at no cost, thousands in free restaurant meals and costly wines, as well as repeated efforts to involve key city employees in demands for costly freebies, envelopes stuffed with cash and blatant demands for more.
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