Sex, Lies, and Murder: the story of Kwame Kilpatrick

[Dr.A]

If any of you watched the National News recently, you may have seen a story about Kwame Kilpatrick's, the mayor of Detroit, sex scandal. I'm going to vent a little because I am tired of this man running my city into the Ground. Pretty much here's the entire story of what we've faced with this man in charge these last 5 years.

Labor Day Weekend 2002: Kwame is said to have thrown a wild party at the Manoogian Mansion. Although repeatedly denied by Kilpatrick and the Attorney General Mike Cox, several witnesses have come forward to say the party happened and that there was an incident with a stripper named Tamara "Strawberry" Greene. Apparently Kwame's wife walked in on the party, and violently assaulted the stripper. Greene begins telling her story to the internal affairs officers investigating the party, notably Gary Brown.

April 2003: An attempt is made by an unknown assailant on the life of Greene. She survives unharmed. On April 30, she isn't so lucky. While sitting in her car with her boyfriend, Greene was shot 18 times with the same exact type of .40 caliber Glock handgun and bullets that were issued to Detroit police officers. The boyfriend was wounded, but was not shot at, even after the white Chevrolet TrailBlazer that the shooter(s) were in turned around and drove by a second time. The investigation is headed by Lt. Alan Bowman.

Also in April, a police officer and member of the Mayor's personal security attachment named Harold Nelthrope began talking to the head of internal affairs, the above mentioned Gary Brown, about horrible wrongdoings conducted by the mayor's Security attachment, the Executive Protection Unit (EPU). The officers begin investigating the EPU and the Mayor himself.

May 2003: Brown and Nelthrope are fired under suspicious circumstances.

June 2003: Former deputy chief Gary Bron and Ex-Police Officer Harold Nethrope file a lawsuit against Kwame Kilpatrick under the Michigan Whistleblowers protection act. The suit is based on the claim that the officers were fired for investigatign possible wrongdoing by Mayor Kilpatrick.

August 2007: The lawsuits go to trial. Christine Beatty, the mayor's then Chief of Staff, is called to testify. It is said that she was the one responsible for firing the officers. While on stand, Beatty is asked no less then ten times about whether she or Mayor Kilpatrick had a sexual relationship. She denies it every time. Kwame is called to the stand. No, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick testified, he did not have an extramarital affair with Christine Beatty, his chief of staff. No, he did not meet a Jamaican woman in the backroom of a barber shop. No, he did not have a liaison with a woman clad only in a fur coat. And yes, he was justified in sacking the former head of police internal affairs, who probed claims that Kilpatrick's bodyguards facilitated liaisons between the mayor and women.
The mayor was the most animated when he discussed his relationship with Beatty, a friend since they were Cass Technical High classmates. She had been his chief of staff since 1996 when he became a member of the state House.
"She's my friend," he said. "We've been through a lot together."
Kilpatrick confirmed testimony that his bodyguards would drive him to Beatty's house for late-night meetings when her husband, whom the mayor has known longer than Beatty, wasn't there. As his campaign manager, he explained, the pair could not discuss strategy on city time or in their city office.
He lashed out at allegations he had been having an affair with his chief of staff. "It's tough to assert that every woman who works for a man is a whore," Kilpatrick said. He called it "demoralizing" to hear rumors Beatty was more than his friend.

September 2007: After four hours of deliberation, the jury finds in favor of the plaintiffs, Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope. The City of Detroit is ordered to pay $6.5 million in damages. Only a year earlier, the plaintiffs were willing to settle for $500,000, but Kwame refused. Kwame vows to appeal the verdict.

October 2007: SkyTel, a Mississippi-based communications company sends attorney Mike Stefani, representing Nelthrope and Brown, more then 14,000 text messages between the Mayor and Beatty. He had asked for them before the trial but did not see them until afterward. Immediately after reviewing the text messages, Stefani meets with Kilpatrick with a threat of a perjury lawsuit should Kilpatrick not settle. Kilpatrick settles for 8.4 Million dollars and a confidentiality agreement that the text messages are never referred to by any of the plaintiffs or Kilpatrick again.

January 2008: The secret text messages are leaked to the press. The messages reveal on ongoing sexual relationship between Kwame and Beatty, despite what they swore under oath thus forth committing Perjury. The text messages also show a lot of evidence that Kwame Kilpatrick had Beatty fire the officers who were investigating the party.

February 2008: All remaining text messages are ordered to be made public by the Michigan Supreme Court. The voting to do so was unanimous.

March 1st, 2008: A ten page sworn affidavit by former Detroit police lieutenant Alvin Bowman was filed by lawyer Norman Yatooma in the U.S. District Court in Detroit. In that affidavit, Bowman states that "I suspected that the shooter was a law enforcement officer, and more specifically, a Detroit Police Department officer." Bowman contends that because of the high number of .40 caliber bullets that hit Greene and not her boyfriend, would indicate firearms training, i.e. police firearms training. In the document, Bowman explained how the highest levels of the police department including then police chief Jerry Oliver and his successor, Ella Bully-Cummings, deliberately sabotaged his investigation. He claims that files were deleted from homicide computers, reports were removed from the homicide file, and the Greene murder file itself was locked up so Bowman could not access it. Bowman states that eventually, he was transferred out of homicide because he had asked too many questions about the Greene murder and the Manoogian Mansion party. In the affidavit, Bowman says that Greene was employed with an associate of Kilpatrick, but did not name the associate. Bowman also stated that Greene's telephone records linked her to a high-ranking city employee not long before her April 2003 death. Mayer Morganroth, the lawyer representing the city said, "The Bowman affidavit is a little less than idiotic and more than absurd."

[Dinoguy1000]

Meh, I'm still hung up on all this Blasunuvabitch crap. I have the distinct feeling the bastard has presidential ambitions delusions.