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| birthname           = Kwame Malik Kilpatrick
| image               = Kwame-2006 (1).jpg
| caption             = Kilpatrick in 2006
| order               = 72nd
| office              = Mayor of Detroit
| term_start          = January 1, 2002
| term_end            = September 18, 2008
| predecessor         = [[Dennis Archer]]
| successor           = [[Kenneth Cockrel Jr.]]
| state_house2        = Michigan
| district2           = [[Michigan's 9th House of Representatives district|9th]]
| term_start2         = January 1, 1997
| term_end2           = January 1, 2002
| predecessor2        = [[Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick]]
| successor2          = [[Fred Durhal Jr.]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1970|6|8}}
| birth_place         = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.
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| spouse              = {{ublist|{{marriage|Carlita Poles|1995|2018|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Laticia McGee|2021}}}}
| children            = 5<ref name="Kwame Kilpatrick's Son">{{Cite web|url=https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/articles/kwame-kilpatricks-son-pleads-president-grant-my-father-mercy-commute-his-sentence|title=Kwame Kilpatrick's Son Pleads To President: 'Grant My Father Mercy, Commute His Sentence'|date=August 14, 2019|website=www.audacy.com}}</ref>
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| profession          = Politician, author, teacher<ref name=citymayors.com>{{cite web | url = http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/detroit_mayor.html |publisher = CityMayors.com | title = Kwame Kilpatrick: Former Mayor of Detroit | first = Andrew | last = Stevens | date = March 31, 2010}}</ref>
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| alma_mater          = [[Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University|Florida A&M University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Michigan State University College of Law|Michigan State University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
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'''Kwame Malik Kilpatrick''' (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician who served as the 72nd [[mayor of Detroit]] from 2002 to 2008. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], he previously represented the [[Michigan's 9th House of Representatives district|9th district]] in the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] from 1997 to 2002. Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in September 2008 after being convicted of [[perjury]] and [[obstruction of justice]]. He was sentenced to four months in jail and was released on [[probation]] after serving 99 days.

In May 2010, Kilpatrick was sentenced to eighteen months to five years in state prison for violating his probation,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/us/26detroit.html |title=Prison Term for Ex-Mayor of Detroit |access-date=May 25, 2010 |last=Bunkley |first=Nick |date=May 25, 2010 |work=online and print |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref> and served time at the [[Oaks Correctional Facility]] in northwest Michigan. In March 2013, he was convicted on 24 federal felony counts, including [[mail fraud]], [[wire fraud]], and [[Racket (crime)|racketeering]].<ref name="npr.org">{{cite news | url = https://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132093499/ex-detroit-mayor-faces-new-corruption-charges?ft=1&f= | title = Ex Detroit Mayor Faces New Corruption Charges | date = December 15, 2010 | website= [[National Public Radio]]}}{{dead link | date = December 2012}}</ref> In October 2013, Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison,<ref name="fed sentence">{{cite news|last=Baldas|first=Tresa|title='Corruption no more': Judge sends a message with 28-year sentence for Kilpatrick|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20131010/NEWS0102/310100095/|access-date=October 21, 2013|newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]|date=October 10, 2013|author2=Shaefer, Jim|author3=Damron, Gina}}</ref> and was incarcerated at the [[Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno|Federal Correctional Institution]] in [[El Reno, Oklahoma]]. On January 20, 2021, after Kilpatrick served 76 months of his 336-month sentence, president [[Donald Trump]] [[Commutation (law)|commuted]] his sentence and Kilpatrick was released from prison.<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |date=January 20, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Baldas">{{cite news |url=
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/01/20/kwame-kilpatrick-pardoned-donald-trump-detroit-mayor/4217253001/ |title=Detroit: Donald Trump commutes sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick |first1=Tresa |last1=Baldas |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]] |date=January 20, 2021}}</ref>

==Early life, education, and family==
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick was born June 8, 1970, to Bernard Kilpatrick and [[Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick]]. His parents divorced in 1981.<ref name="Bernard">{{cite web|first=Christine|last=MacDonald|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100506/METRO01/5060412|title=Like his disgraced son, Bernard Kilpatrick lived large in Detroit|website=[[Detroit News]]|date=May 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214802/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100506/METRO01/5060412 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 }}</ref> Kilpatrick attended Detroit's [[Cass Technical High School]] and graduated from [[Florida A&M University]] with a Bachelor of Science degree in [[political science]] in 1992. While at FAMU, he played football under NFL Hall of Famer [[Ken Riley]] as an [[offensive tackle]] and was team captain. On September 9, 1995, he married Carlita Poles in Detroit.<ref>{{cite news|last=Riley |first=Rochelle|title=First Lady of Change|newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]|date=March 10, 2002| url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/361198991|url-access=subscription}}</ref> They have three children together, Jalil, Jonas, and Jelani.<ref name="Kwame Kilpatrick's Son"/> In 1999 he received a Juris Doctor from [[Detroit College of Law]]-[[Michigan State University]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=Kilpatrick gets 1.5 to 5 years, loses his job |first1=Jim |last1=Schafer |first2=Joe |last2=Swickard |first3=Ben |last3=Schmitt |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20100525/NEWS01/100525031/1321/Kilpatrick-gets-1.5--to-5-years-loses-his-job |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]] |access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref> He has a sister Ayanna and a half-sister, Diarra.<ref name="Bernard" />

Kilpatrick's mother Carolyn was a career politician, representing Detroit in [[Michigan House of Representatives]] from 1979 to 1996 and serving in the [[United States House of Representatives]] for [[Michigan's 13th congressional district]] from 1996 to 2010. She was not re-elected to office because she lost her primary election in August 2010 to State Senator [[Hansen Clarke]]. [[NPR]] and [[CBS News]] both noted that throughout her re-election campaign, Carolyn was dogged by questions about Kilpatrick following his tenure as mayor of Detroit.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128807149 | title = Kwame Kilpatrick's Woes Tinge Mother's Campaign | first = Quinn | last = Klinefelter | date = July 29, 2010 | publisher = [[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-election-results-mean-end-of-kilpatrick-era/ | work=CBS News | first=Brian | last=Montopoli | title=Michigan Election Results Mean End of Kilpatrick Era | date=August 4, 2010}}</ref>

Kilpatrick's father Bernard was a semi-professional [[basketball]] player and politician.<ref name="Bernard" /> He was elected to the [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]] Commission, served as head of Wayne County Health and Human Services Department from 1989 to 2002,<ref>[https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/02/kwame_kilpatrick_jury_to_deter.html Kwame Kilpatrick jury to determine if ex-mayor's father acted as godfather of corruption], Gus Burns, mlive.com, February 20, 2013</ref> and as [[chief of staff]] to former Wayne [[County executive|County Executive]] [[Edward H. McNamara]]. Later he operated a Detroit consulting firm called Maestro Associates.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0807/p01s03-uspo.htm |title='Hip hop mayor' aims to rev Motor City engine |access-date=February 19, 2008 |last=Marks |first=Alexandra |date=August 7, 2002 |work=online and print |publisher=The Christian Science Monitor}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/feds-say-hes-a-crook-but-bernard-kilpatrick-insists-hes-just-paid-consultant |title=Feds say he's a crook, but Bernard Kilpatrick insists he's just paid consultant |publisher=Wxyz.com |access-date=March 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018075131/http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/feds-say-hes-a-crook-but-bernard-kilpatrick-insists-hes-just-paid-consultant |archive-date=October 18, 2012 }}</ref>

Kilpatrick filed for divorce from Carlita in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/21/key-people-in-kwame-kilpatricks-life-and-career-where-are-they-now/|title=Key people in Kwame Kilpatrick's life and career: Where are they now?|date=January 20, 2021|work=Click On Detroit}}</ref> In July 2021 he married Laticia Maria McGee at [[Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church]] in Detroit.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/07/24/kwame-kilpatrick-marries-fiancee-little-rock-baptist-church/8077287002/|title=Kwame Kilpatrick marries fiancée at Little Rock Baptist Church|author=Amelia Benavides-Colón|work=The Detroit News}}</ref>

==Michigan state representative==
Kilpatrick was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1996 after his mother vacated her Detroit-based seat to mount a successful bid for Congress.<ref name=begin>{{cite web |date=January 28, 2008 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NEWS01/80128035/0/NEWS06&theme=KILPATRICK012008 |title=Beatty quits, says she regrets 'devastation' caused by scandal
|work=[[freep.com]] |agency=[[Gannett]] |access-date=February 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731153024/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NEWS01/80128035/0/NEWS06&theme=KILPATRICK012008 |archive-date=31 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Kilpatrick's campaign staff consisted of high school classmates Derrick Miller and [[Christine Beatty]], who became his legislative aide; later, Kilpatrick had an affair with Beatty. According to Kilpatrick, the campaign was run on a budget of $10,000 and did not receive endorsements from [[trade union]]s, [[congressional district]]s, or the Democratic establishment.<ref name=begin/>

Kilpatrick was elected minority floor leader for the [[Michigan Democratic Party]], serving in that position 1998 to 2000. He was subsequently elected as house minority leader in 2001, the first [[African-American]] to hold that position.<ref name=procon>{{cite news |last=Stanton |first=Elizabeth |date=May 19, 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/19/us/national-briefing-midwest-michigan-minority-leader-will-run-for-mayor.html |title=Midwest: Michigan: Minority Leader Will Run For Mayor |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 25, 2011}}</ref> [[2001 Detroit mayoral election|Later in 2001]], Kilpatrick ran for mayor of Detroit, hiring Berg/Muirhead Associates for his campaign. They were retained as his [[public relations]] firm upon his election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bergmuirhead.com/clients_fulllist.shtml|title=Berg Muirhead and Associates|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041831/http://www.bergmuirhead.com/clients_fulllist.shtml|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> During the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 presidential election]], Kilpatrick was a Michigan state co-chair of GoreNet.<ref>{{cite web |title=GoreNet State Co-Chairs |url=http://www.algore.com/gorenet/net_directors.html |publisher=Gore 2000 |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815071349/http://www.algore.com/gorenet/net_directors.html |archive-date=August 15, 2000 |date=15 August 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref> GoreNet was a group that supported [[Al  Gore]]'s [[Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]] with a focus on [[grassroots]] and [[online]] organizing as well as hosting small dollar donor events.<ref>{{cite web |title=GoreNet: A Network of Young Americans Dedicated to Al Gore President |url=http://www.algore.com/gorenet/net_directors.html |publisher=Gore 2000 |access-date=29 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815054240/http://www.algore.com/gorenet/index.html |archive-date=August 15, 2000 |date=15 August 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2001, Kilpatrick used his influence while in the Michigan legislature to direct state grant money to two organizations that were vague on their project description. The groups were run by friends of Kilpatrick and both agreed to subcontract work to U.N.I.T.E., a company owned by Kilpatrick's wife Carlita. Carlita was the firm's only employee, and the firm received $175,000 from the organizations.<ref name=Grantmoney>{{cite web |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS01/805180596/0/NEWS01 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080519221306/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/NEWS01/805180596/0/NEWS01 |archive-date=May 19, 2008 |title=Kilpatrick helped friends get grants. Money also trickled down to the wife of the mayor |access-date=May 27, 2008 |first1=Dawson |last1=Bell |first2=Jim |last2=Schaefer |first3=M.L. |last3=Elrick |date=May 18, 2008 |work=[[freep.com]] |agency=[[Gannett]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Millikin|first=Eric|date=May 18, 2008|title=Kilpatrick helped friends get grants: Following the grant money|journal=[[Detroit Free Press]]|pages=15A}}</ref> Detroit 3D was one of the groups and the State canceled its second and final installment of $250,000 because 3D refused to divulge details on how the funds were being spent.<ref name=Grantmoney/><ref name=":0" />

==First mayoral term (2002–2006)==
[[File:President George W. Bush greets Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.jpg|thumb|right|Kilpatrick greeting [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] in 2005]]
On New Year’s Day 2002, Kilpatrick was sworn-in as the youngest mayor of Detroit when he took office at age 31.

During his first term, Kilpatrick was criticized for using city funds to lease a [[Lincoln Navigator]] for use by his family<ref name="time91">{{cite magazine | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050267,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050418201207/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050267,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 18, 2005 | magazine = [[TIME magazine|Time]] | title = Kwame Kilpatrick / Detroit | first = Jyoti |last = Thottam| date = April 17, 2005}}</ref> and using his city-issued credit card to charge thousands of dollars' worth of spa massages, extravagant dining, and expensive wines.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE2D71630F937A35756C0A9639C8B63 | work = [[The New York Times]] | title = Michigan: Detroit Mayor's Expenses |date = May 4, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews/story/0,2933,155428,00.html |title=Records: Detroit Mayor Charged $210K for Wining, Dining |access-date=February 19, 2008 |date=May 3, 2005 |work=[[Fox News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320203616/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155428,00.html |archive-date=March 20, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Kilpatrick paid back $9,000 of the $210,000 credit card charges.<ref name=procon/> Meanwhile, Kilpatrick closed the century-old [[Belle Isle Zoo]] and [[Belle Isle Aquarium]] because of the city's budget problems. The City Council overrode his funding veto for the zoo and gave it a budget of $700,000.

In 2005, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named Kilpatrick as one of the worst mayors in America.<ref name="time91"/><ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663791,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071005052359/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663791,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 5, 2007 | magazine = [[TIME magazine|Time]] | title = Can Kwame Kilpatrick Grow Up? | first = Steven |last = Gray| date = September 20, 2007}}</ref><ref name=hakim>{{cite news | last = Hakim |first = Danny |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/national/10detroit.html |title = In Troubled Detroit, Mayor's Race Is a Referendum on Style |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |date = July 10, 2005}}</ref>

===Special administratorship===
Since the 1970s, a federal judge had made the mayor of Detroit the special administrator of the [[Detroit Water and Sewerage Department|Detroit Water Department]] because of severe pollution issues. When serious questions about water department contracts came to light in late 2005, Judge Feikens ended Kilpatrick's special administratorship in his capacity as mayor. In January 2006, ''[[The Detroit News]]'' reported that, "Kilpatrick used his special administrator authority to bypass the water board and City Council on three controversial contracts." These included a $131 million radio system for the city's police and fire departments, as well as a no-bid PR contract to a close personal aide.<ref name="water">''Detroit News'', "Kilpatrick out as water chief" January 6, 2006</ref> But Judge Feikens praised Kilpatrick's work as steward of the department, referring questions on the contracts to the [[special master]] in charge of that investigation.<ref name="water" />

===Rumored Manoogian Mansion party and Greene killing===
[[File:Manoogian mansion decorated.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Manoogian Mansion]], official residence of the Mayor of Detroit]]
In the fall of 2002, it was alleged that Kilpatrick had held a wild party involving strippers at the Manoogian Mansion, the city-owned residence of the mayor of Detroit. Former members of the Executive Protection Unit (EPU), the mayor's police security detail, alleged that Carlita Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick's wife, came home unexpectedly and physically attacked an [[exotic dancer]], Tamara Greene.<ref name=Manoogian1>{{cite web |url=http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6269 |title=Internal affairs? |access-date=January 29, 2008 |last=Guyette |first=Curt |date=May 26, 2004 |website=[[The Metro Times]]}}</ref> Officer Harold C. Nelthrope contacted the [[Internal affairs (law enforcement)|Internal Affairs]] unit of the [[Detroit Police Department]] in April 2003 to recommend that they investigate abuses by the EPU. Kilpatrick denied any wrongdoing. An investigation by Michigan Attorney General Cox and the [[Michigan State Police]] found no evidence that the party took place.<ref name=Manoogian1/>

Greene was murdered on April 30, 2003, at around 3:40&nbsp;a.m., near the intersection of Roselawn and West Outer Drive while sitting in her car with her 32-year-old boyfriend.<ref name="Bowmanaffidavit"/><ref name=greene1>{{cite web |url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14884764/detail.html |title=$150 Million Lawsuit Over Rumored Mansion Party |access-date=January 29, 2008 |date=December 18, 2007 |website=WDIV-TV |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121064815/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14884764/detail.html |archive-date=January 21, 2008 }}</ref> She was shot multiple times with a [[.40 S&W|.40 caliber]] [[Glock pistol]]. At the time, this was the same model and caliber firearm as those officially issued by the Detroit Police Department. The family believed the killing to have been a "deliberate hit".<ref name=greene1/>

Greene's family filed a $150 million lawsuit against the city of Detroit in federal court, claiming she was murdered to prevent her testimony about the Manoogian Mansion party.<ref name=greene1/> In late 2011, Judge [[Gerald Ellis Rosen]] granted summary judgment in favor of the city.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|title=Judge dismisses suit by family of slain stripper|first=Corey|last=Williams|author2=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sdut-judge-dismisses-suit-by-family-of-slain-stripper-2011nov01-story.html}}</ref> Greene's children appealed the decision, but the [[Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals]] affirmed the district-court decision.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tamara Greene lawsuit alleging Kwame Kilpatrick Manoogian party, murder investigation coverup denied|date=April 25, 2013|work=[[MLive Media Group]]|first=Gus|last=Burns|url=https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2013/04/tamara_greene_lawsuit_alleging.html}}</ref> Several affidavits were filed in the lawsuit prior to its dismissal; in his summary-judgment order, Judge Rosen wrote, "[I]t is fair to say that the parties—and, in particular, Plaintiffs—were given wide latitude to pursue any and all matters that were arguably relevant to their claims or defenses".<ref>{{cite court|litigants=Flagg v. Detroit|reporter=F. Supp.|vol=827|opinion=765|url=https://casetext.com/case/flagg-ex-rel-jb-v-city-of-detroit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516000052/https://casetext.com/case/flagg-ex-rel-jb-v-city-of-detroit|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 16, 2023|court=E.D. Mich.|date=2011}}</ref> Many affidavits related to whether the party took place and whether Carlita and Greene had been in an altercation.<ref name="RogersAffidavit">{{cite web |url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15557403/detail.html |title=Witness: Stripper Claimed Mayor's Wife Assaulted Her |access-date=March 26, 2008 |date=March 11, 2008 |work=online |publisher=WDIV TV |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315000358/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15557403/detail.html |archive-date=March 15, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.freep.com/article/20081023/NEWS01/81023101/?imw=Y | title = Paramedic: Woman said she was attacked by Carlita Kilpatrick | date = October 23, 2008 | first = Suzette | last = Hackney | newspaper = Detroit Free Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17160557/detail.html |title=EMS Apologizes To Green's Family For Not Coming Forward – Detroit Local News Story |publisher=WDIV Detroit |date=August 11, 2008 |access-date=August 23, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731160657/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17160557/detail.html |archive-date=July 31, 2010 }}</ref> Detroit Police lieutenant Alvin Bowman stated that he had suspected the shooter was a Detroit law-enforcement officer<ref name="Bowmanaffidavit">{{cite news |last=Ashenfelter |first=David |date=March 4, 2008 |title=Mystery of who killed stripper thickens. Ex-cop's affidavit in suit says officer shot her; city's lawyer calls that absurd &#124;4-3-2008 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080304/NEWS06/803040396 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306003649/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080304/NEWS06/803040396 |archive-date=March 6, 2008 |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]}}</ref> and claimed that high-ranking Detroit Police personnel, including Cummings, deliberately sabotaged his investigation, stating that he was eventually transferred out of the Homicide Division because he had asked too many questions about the Greene murder and the Manoogian Mansion party.<ref name="Bowmanaffidavit"/> Mayer Morganroth, the lawyer representing the city, said, "The Bowman affidavit is a little less than idiotic and more than absurd."<ref name="Bowmanaffidavit"/>

===Denial of courtesy protection in Washington, D.C.===
In 2002, the Washington D.C. police announced that they would only offer professional courtesy protection to Kilpatrick while he was conducting official business in the nation's capital. D.C. police no longer provided after-hours police protection to Kilpatrick because of his inappropriate partying during past visits. [[Sergeant]] Tyrone Dodson of Washington D.C. explained by saying "we arrived at this decision because we felt that the late evening partying on the part of Mayor Kilpatrick would leave our officers stretched too thin and might result in an incident at one of the clubs."  The Kilpatrick administration alleged that the statements and actions of the Washington D.C. police were part of a political conspiracy to "ruin" the mayor.<ref name=DCcops>{{cite news |last=Associated Press |title=D.C. Police Stopped Providing After-Hours Security for Detroit's Mayor In 2002 |url=http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=20588 |work=officer.com |publisher=Law Enforcement News |date=January 21, 2005 |access-date=February 24, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050409122538/http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1 |archive-date=April 9, 2005 }}</ref>

===2005 re-election campaign===
{{Main|2005 Detroit mayoral election}}
At a campaign rally in May 2005, Kilpatrick's father Bernard adamantly argued that allegations that the Mayor had held a party at the [[Manoogian Mansion]] were a lie, likening such statements to the false [[scapegoat]]ing of Jewish people by the [[Nazi]]s. Bernard later apologized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0505/19/A01-186967.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728212032/http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0505/19/A01-186967.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 28, 2012 |title=Mayor's father is sorry for remarks. Bernard Kilpatrick apologizes for calling stories about son akin to lies of the Nazis. |access-date=February 19, 2008 |last=Josar |first=David |date=May 19, 2005 |work=[[Detroit News]] }}</ref> In October 2005, a third-party group supporting Kilpatrick, named Citizens for Honest Government, generated controversy by its print advertisement that compared media criticism of the mayor to [[Lynching|lynch mobs]] and accused his mayoral challenger, [[Freman Hendrix]], as a collaborator in suburban exploitation of Detroit. The PAC treasurer for Citizens for Honest Government, Bill Miller, said his group wasn’t responsible for the ad and that he had no idea who placed it. The [[Michigan Secretary of State]] declined to investigate who placed the ad.<ref>{{cite news | last=Runk | first=David | title='Lynching' Ad Roils Detroit Race | date=October 30, 2005 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/10/30/lynching-ad-roils-detroit-race/3ac0869f-87df-4fdd-8a73-037258ff3cda/ | work=washingtonpost.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last=Ankeny | first=Robert | title=Lynching ad has many wondering who's behind it | date=October 31, 2005 | url=https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20051031/SUB/510310870/lynching-ad-has-many-wondering-who-s-behind-it | work=crainsdetroit.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Lynching loophole | date=November 23, 2005 | url=http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8533 | work=metrotimes.com }}</ref>

Kilpatrick and Hendrix, both Democrats, each initially claimed victory. However, as the votes were tallied, it became clear that Kilpatrick had come back from his stretch of unpopularity to win a second term in office. Three months previously, most commentators declared his political career over after he was the first incumbent mayor of Detroit to come in second in a [[Partisan primary|primary]]. Pre-election opinion polls predicted a large win for Hendrix; however, Kilpatrick won with 53% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/four-more-years-kilpatrick-pulls-ahead |title=Four More Years: Kilpatrick pulls ahead |access-date=February 19, 2008 |last=Heming |first=Julia F. |author2=Drew Philp |date=November 9, 2005 |newspaper=[[The Michigan Daily]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/opinion/13clemens.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 |title=A Comeback Kid for a Dead-End Town |access-date=February 19, 2008 |last=Clemens |first=Paul |date=November 13, 2005 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

==Second mayoral term (2006–2008)==
[[File:Kwame Kilpatrick.jpg|thumb|Kilpatrick in 2006]]

===Tax plan===
In July 2006, Detroit's City Council voted unanimously to approve Kilpatrick's tax plan, with which he intended to offer homeowners some relief from the city's high property [[tax rate]]s. The cuts ranged from 18% to 35%, depending on the property's value.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bello |first=Marisol |url=http://www.ralphroberts.com/blog/2006/07/ |title=Detroiters' efforts pay off: Council approves tax relief |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]] |date=July 29, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314030434/http://www.ralphroberts.com/blog/2006/07/ |archive-date=March 14, 2008 }}</ref>

===Audit reports===
The city of Detroit was fourteen months late in filing its 2005–2006 [[audit]]. In March 2008, officials estimated the audit would cost an additional $2.4&nbsp;million because of new auditing requirements that were not addressed by the city. The 2006–2007 fiscal year audit due on December 31, 2007, was expected to be eleven months late.<ref name=lateaudit>{{cite news |last=Gorchow |first=Zachary |date=March 14, 2008 |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/80314036 |title=City's late audit to cost an additional $2.4 million |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |access-date=March 14, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301224226/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080314%2FNEWS01%2F80314036 |archive-date=March 1, 2014 }}</ref>

The state treasury chose to withhold $35&nbsp;million of its monthly revenue sharing to the city and required Detroit to receive approval before selling [[Bond (finance)|bonds]] to raise money.<ref name=lateaudit/> Kilpatrick told the City Council that he would take partial blame for the late audits because he laid off too many [[accounting|accountant]]s, but he also blamed the firm hired to replace them.<ref name=Unfiledaudit>{{cite web |last=Gorchow |first=Zachary |date=February 28, 2008 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS01/802210390/1003/news01 |title=Late audit delays funds from state |newspaper=The Detroit Free Press |access-date=March 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302014322/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080221/NEWS01/802210390/1003/news01 |archive-date=March 2, 2014 }} [https://archive.today/20130131152807/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1714022801.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+21,+2008&author=ZACHARY+GORCHOW&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&edition=&startpage=A.3&desc=LATE+AUDIT+DELAYS+FUNDS+FROM+STATE Alt URL]</ref>

===Abuse of power allegations===
It was revealed on July 15, 2008, by [[WXYZ-TV|WXYZ]] reporter Steve Wilson that, in 2005, Kilpatrick, Christine Beatty, and the chief of police [[Ella Bully-Cummings]] allegedly used their positions to help an influential Baptist minister arrested for soliciting a prostitute get his case dismissed. The arresting officer, Antoinette Bostic, was told by her supervisors that Mangedwa Nyathi was a minister (Assistant Pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church on Detroit's west side), and that the mayor and police chief were calling to persuade Bostic not to show up to court, in which case the judge would be forced to dismiss the case against Nyathi. Bostic ignored her supervisors and appeared in court.<ref name="preacher/prostitute"/>

The defense lawyer, Charles Hammons, had the case postponed a couple of times and stated in court that "The mayor told me yesterday that this case is not gonna go forward." Hammons admitted to Wilson that this was the fact and that this was how many cases for people who know the mayor in Detroit are handled. Bully-Cummings angrily denied that she had ever asked her officers to perform such acts of impropriety. Kilpatrick stated that Wilson of WXYZ "was just making up stories again."<ref name="preacher/prostitute">{{cite web |url=http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=680f95b5-dcf5-48b4-8d8e-34084c72809d |title=A Preacher, A Prostitute & The Mayor |access-date=July 16, 2008 |author=Steve Wilson |date=July 15, 2008 |work=TV and online print |publisher=WXYZ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005183635/http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=680f95b5-dcf5-48b4-8d8e-34084c72809d |archive-date=October 5, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====Reporting on nepotism and preferential hiring of friends and family====
A 2008 ''Detroit Free Press'' article revealed that at any given time there were about 100 Kilpatrick appointees were employed with the city. ''The [[Detroit Free Press]]'' examined city records and found that [[Nepotism|29 of Kilpatrick's closest friends and family were appointed to positions]] in various city departments. This hiring practice came to be known as 'the friends and family plan.' Some appointees had little or no experience, while others including Kilpatrick's uncle Ray Cheeks and cousin Nneka Cheeks, falsified their résumés. Kilpatrick's cousin Patricia Peoples was appointed  deputy director of human resources, giving her the ability to hire more of Kilpatrick's friends and family without the hirings being viewed as mayoral appointments. Although political appointments are not illegal, the sheer volume of Kilpatrick's appointments compared to appointments made by predecessor mayors since 1970, along with Kilpatrick's elimination of thousands of city jobs, made his appointments controversial.<ref name="friendsandfamily">{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080510/NEWS01/805110582/0/NEWS01 |title=Kilpatrick stocks payroll with friends, kin |access-date=May 16, 2008 |last=Elrick |first=M.L. |author2=Jim Schaefer |author3=Kristi Tanner |date=May 10, 2008 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>

The jobs held by friends and family ranged from secretaries to department heads. The appointees had an average salary increase of 36% compared with a 2% raises in 2003 and 2004 for fellow city workers. Some of the biggest salary increases were for April Edgar, half-sister of Christine Beatty, whose pay increased 86% over 5 years. One of Kilpatrick's cousins, Ajene Evans, had a 77% salary increase during this 5-year period. The biggest salary increase among the 29 appointees was that of LaTonya Wallace-Hardiman who went from $32,500 staff secretary, to an executive assistant making $85,501—163% in five years.<ref name="friendsandfamily"/>

===2008 assault of a police officer===
On July 24, 2008, at approximately 4 p.m., Wayne County Sheriff's Detective Brian White and Joanne Kinney, an investigator from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's office, went to the home of Kilpatrick's sister to serve a subpoena. While on the front porch of the home, Kilpatrick exited the house with his bodyguards and pushed the sheriff's deputy, as Sheriff Warren Evans said, "with significant force to make [the deputy] bounce into the prosecutor's investigator." The mayor yelled at Kinney "How can a black woman be riding in a car with a man named White?"<ref name="Bond Hearing">{{cite web |url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/METRO01/807250414&imw=Y |title=Judge revokes Kilpatrick's personal bond, restricts travel|access-date=July 26, 2008}}</ref>

Evans went on to say "There were armed executive protection officers. My officers were there armed. And all of them had the consummate good sense not to let it escalate"... and "the two officers 'wisely' left the property and returned to their office to report on the incident."<ref name="Assault">{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/NEWS01/807250375 |title=Mayor faces new probe for run-in with officers |access-date=July 25, 2008 |last=Elrick |first=M.L. |author2=Jim Schaefer |author3=Ben Schmitt |author4=Joe Swickard |date=July 25, 2008 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>

Sheriff Evans stated that due to the "politically charged nature" of the incident, the case was transferred to the Michigan State Police to investigate. Evans's daughter, who was on Kilpatrick's staff,<ref name="Assault"/> resigned shortly thereafter.<ref name="Sheriff's daughter resigns">{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080728/NEWS01/80728067 |title=Sheriff Evans backs deputy; his daughter resigns from Kilpatrick's staff |access-date=July 28, 2008 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822074713/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080728%2FNEWS01%2F80728067 |archive-date=August 22, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Resignation from mayoralty, criminal conviction==
===Events leading up===
====Text-messaging scandal and coverup====
{{Main|Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal}}
In 2003, a civil lawsuit was filed against Kilpatrick by ex-bodyguard Harold Nelthrope and former Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, who claimed they were fired in retaliation for an internal-affairs investigation. Brown had led the investigation, and Nelthrope had told investigators about the aforementioned rumors of a party that occurred at the Mayor's mansion.<ref name=whistle>{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080124%2FNEWS05%2F801240419 |title=The chain of events |access-date=August 7, 2017 |work=freep.com |publisher=Gannett |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127115706/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080124%2FNEWS05%2F801240419 |archive-date=January 27, 2008 }}</ref> Both claimed that Kilpatrick was motivated, in part, by his concern that the probe would uncover his extramarital affairs.<ref name="Schaefer Supreme Court">{{cite news|title=The keys to the cover-up: Supreme Court frees last documents from text message scandal|first=Jim|last=Schaefer|newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]]|date=May 30, 2020|url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/2020/05/30/keys-cover-up-supreme-court-frees-last-documents-text-message-scandal/5271984002/}}</ref> The trial began in August 2007. Kilpatrick and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, both testified under oath that they were not involved in an [[extramarital affair]].<ref name=usatdy>{{cite news |last=Schaefer |first=Jim |author2=M.L. Elrick |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-24-detroit-mayor_N.htm |title=Detroit mayor, aide lied under oath, texts show |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |access-date=2008-02-14 | date=2008-01-24}}</ref><ref name=absurd>{{cite video |people=Kilpatrick, Kwame (Witness), Mike Stefani (Attorney), M.L. Elrick (Reporter), Brian Kaufman (Producer) |date=August 29, 2007 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070829/VIDEO01/101230053 |title=The mayor's response to infidelity charges |medium=online streaming video |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=February 14, 2008 |time=4:00 |quote=I think it's absurd to assert that every woman that works with a man is a whore. |archive-date=January 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127114912/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070829/VIDEO01/101230053 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In September 2007, after three hours of deliberation, the jury found in favor of Nelthrope and Brown, awarding $6.5&nbsp;million in damages. After the verdict was read, Kilpatrick said that the racial composition of the jury—which was mostly white and suburban—had played a role in the outcome and vowed an appeal.<ref name="Schaefer Supreme Court"/>
[[File:Michigan Hall of Justice Daytime.jpg|thumb|Michigan Hall of Justice, home of the [[Michigan Supreme Court]]]]

In October, plaintiffs' attorney Mike Stefani received thousands of text messages he had been endeavoring to obtain via subpoena—the messages indicated an affair between Kilpatrick and Beatty.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1 =Schaefer|first1=Jim|last2=Elrick|first2=M.L.|last3=Cruden|first3=Alex|last4=Millikin|first4=Eric|date=February 28, 2008|title=Text message scandal: The key events, people and relationships|journal=Detroit Free Press|pages=14A}}</ref><ref name=Textmess>{{cite web |last=Schaefer |first=Jim |author2=M.L. Elrick |date=January 24, 2008 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080124/NEWS05/801240414&theme=KILPATRICK082007 |title=Mayor Kilpatrick, chief of staff lied under oath, text messages show romantic exchanges undercut denials |access-date=January 24, 2008 |work=freep.com |publisher=Gannett |archive-date=January 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126232535/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080124/NEWS05/801240414&theme=KILPATRICK082007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  A day after he presented the files to the city's attorneys, Kilpatrick announced that he had agreed to settle the case, and the city counsel approved the $8.4&nbsp;million deal, which included a proviso that Stefani would turn the files over to the mayor.<ref name="Schaefer Supreme Court"/><ref name=indark>{{cite web |last=Guthrie |first=Doug |author2=Christine MacDonald |date=March 8, 2008 |url=http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080308/METRO/803080371 |title=Council seeks to join suit for texts |access-date=March 8, 2008 |work=detnews.com |publisher=The Detroit News}}</ref><ref name=stefanimotion>{{cite web |last=Schaefer |first=Jim |author2=M.L. Elrick |date=April 28, 2008 |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS01/80429056/0/NEWS01 |title=Judge orders release of key document in whistle-blower case |work=freep.com |publisher=Gannett |access-date=May 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501091613/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080429%2FNEWS01%2F80429056%2F0%2FNEWS01 |archive-date=May 1, 2008 }}</ref> After the ''Detroit Free Press'' filed a [[Freedom of information in the United States|Michigan Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) request, the proviso was removed from the main settlement document and put into a confidential supplement.<ref name="Schaefer Supreme Court"/> But the ''Detroit Free Press'' and ''The Detroit News'' filed a FOIA suit, seeking all settlement-related documents,<ref name=public>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Corey (Associated Press) |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb07/0,4670,DetroitMayorFOIALawsuit,00.html |title=Reports: Detroit Approved Secret Deal |access-date=May 9, 2008 |date=February 7, 2008 |work=FOXNews.com |publisher=FOXNews Network |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409214812/http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb07/0%2C4670%2CDetroitMayorFOIALawsuit%2C00.html |archive-date=April 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref name=joinsuit>{{cite web |last=Ashenfelter |first=David |date=March 22, 2008 |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NEWS01/803220344/0/NEWS01 |title=City council gains in effort to obtain secret documents |access-date=April 5, 2008 |work=freep.com |publisher=Gannett |archive-date=April 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429200345/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NEWS01/803220344/0/NEWS01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and, in February 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered the settlement documents be turned over to the plaintiffs.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|title=Detroit Mayor Loses Fight Over Secret Papers|date=February 28, 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28detroit.html|first=Nick|last=Bunkley}}</ref> The bulk of the text messages were released in late October 2008 by Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny, who instructed that some portions be redacted.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.freep.com/article/20081023/NEWS01/81023053 | title = Read text messages between Kilpatrick, Beatty here | date = October 23, 2008 | newspaper = Detroit Free Press | quote = Click below to read text message exchanges between former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff Christine Beatty. Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny instructed that some portions of the text messages be redacted. ... The Free Press also is reviewing the messages and is redacting selected explicit sexual terms. The messages do contain profanity and some sexual and racial references that may be offensive to some readers.}}</ref>

[[File:Granholm speaking to troops, Lansing, 1 Dec, 2005.jpg|thumb|upright|Michigan Governor [[Jennifer Granholm]] began an inquiry that led to the removal of Kilpatrick from office.]]

Beatty resigned from her position as Kilpatrick's chief of staff.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Swickard|first=Joe|date=January 29, 2008|title=Beatty quits, Kilpatrick lawyer sought lid on texts; staff chief silent about denying affair under oath|page=1A|work=Detroit Free Press}}</ref> The City Council requested that Kilpatrick resign as mayor and that Governor Granholm use her authority to remove him from office.<ref name=granholm>{{cite web |last=Gorchow |first=Zachary |author2=Ben Schmitt |date=May 22, 2008 |title=Granholm starts Kilpatrick ouster inquiry |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/news01/805220390 |work=freep.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |access-date=May 27, 2008 |archive-date=September 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918084349/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/news01/805220390 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=votedelay>{{cite web |last=Gorchow |first=Zachary |author2=Suzette Hackney |date=March 4, 2008 |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080304/NEWS01/80304028 |title=City Council votes to table resolution |work=freep.com |publisher=Gannett |access-date=March 4, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429195847/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080304%2FNEWS01%2F80304028 |archive-date=April 29, 2008 }}</ref> Granholm said the inquiry was like a trial and that her role would be "functioning in a manner similar to that of a judicial officer."<ref name=granholm/> Kilpatrick said he had paid back the $8.4&nbsp;million through "hard work for the city" and dismissed any intentions of removing himself from office as "political rhetoric".<ref name=rhetoric>{{cite web |last=Josar |first=David |date=February 28, 2008 |url=http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/METRO/802280451 |title=Kilpatrick says he won't resign
|access-date=February 29, 2008 |publisher=The Detroit News |work=detnews.com}}</ref>

====2008 State of the City address====
In March 2008, Kilpatrick delivered his seventh "State of the City" address to the city of Detroit. The speech marked a turning point in his career. The majority of the 70-minute speech focused on positive changes occurring throughout Detroit and future plans. Kilpatrick specifically noted increased police surveillance, new policing technologies, and initiatives to rebuild blighted neighborhoods. He received repeated [[standing ovation]]s from the invitation-only audience.

Toward the end of the speech, Kilpatrick deviated from the transcript given to the media<ref>{{cite news | first=Kwame | last=Kilpatrick | title=2008 State of the City | date=March 11, 2008 | url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15569659/detail.html | work=ABC News Detroit | access-date=March 12, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317132020/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15569659/detail.html | archive-date=March 17, 2008 }}</ref> and posted on his official website<ref>{{cite news | first=Kwame | last=Kilpatrick | title=2008 State of the City | date=March 11, 2008 | url=http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15569659/detail.html | work=City of Detroit Mayor's Webpage | access-date=March 12, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317132020/http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15569659/detail.html | archive-date=March 17, 2008 }}</ref> to address the scandals and controversies surrounding his years in office, saying that the media had focused on those controversies only to increase their viewership, and that their focus had led to racist attacks against him and his family.

Kilpatrick's comments generated many negative responses. [[List of Governors of Michigan|Michigan Governor]] and fellow Democrat [[Jennifer Granholm]] issued a statement in which she condemned the use of the [[Nigger#The N-word euphemism|N-word]] in any context.<ref name="Granholm">{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS05/803140314/0/NEWS01 |title=Granholm sees no place for N-word |access-date=March 14, 2008 |last=Christoff |first=Chris |date=March 14, 2008 |newspaper=The Detroit Free Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318121556/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080314%2FNEWS05%2F803140314%2F0%2FNEWS01 |archive-date=March 18, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Michigan Attorney General]] [[Mike Cox (U.S. politician)|Mike Cox]] stated on [[WJR]] [[talk radio]] that he thought that using the N-word was "reprehensible", saying, "I thought his statements were [[race-baiting]] on par with [[David Duke]] and [[George Wallace]], all to save his political career. I'm not a Detroiter, but last night crossed the line ... those statements not only hurt Detroit, [but] as long as the mayor is there, he will be a drag on the whole region." Cox said that whether Kilpatrick is criminally charged or not, he should resign as mayor.<ref name="COXreaction">{{cite web |last=French |first=Ron |date=March 13, 2008 |url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080313/METRO/803130408 |title=Attorney General Cox: Kilpatrick should resign |access-date=March 13, 2008 |work=detnews.com |publisher=The Detroit News }}</ref> Former Kilpatrick political adviser Sam Riddle labeled the address a race-baiting speech. "It's an act of desperation to use the N-word," said Riddle. "He's attempting to regain his base of support by playing the [[race card]]. He's gone to that well one too many times."<ref name="COXreaction"/>{{dead link|date=September 2021}}

====Recall effort against Kilpatrick====
The Wayne County Election Committee approved a [[Recall election|recall]] petition to remove Kilpatrick as mayor based, in part, on the accusation that Kilpatrick misled the City Council into approving the settlement. The recall petition was filed by Douglas Johnson, a city council candidate.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gorchow |first=Zachary |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NEWS01/803060420 |title=Recall petition gets go-ahead |work=Detroit Free Press |publisher=Gannett |date=March 6, 2008 |access-date=March 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925131649/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080306%2FNEWS01%2F803060420 |archive-date=September 25, 2015 }}</ref> Kilpatrick appealed to the commission to reconsider its decision on the grounds that Johnson was not a resident of Detroit.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schmitt |first=Ben |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/NEWS01/803070400 |title=Petitioner's residency questioned |work=Detroit Free Press |publisher=Gannett |date=March 7, 2008 |access-date=March 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316224218/http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080307%2FNEWS01%2F803070400 |archive-date=March 16, 2008 }}</ref> Johnson also requested that Jennifer Granholm use her power as Governor to remove Kilpatrick from office.

On March 12, 2008, at the request of the Mayor's office, Wayne County Election Commission rescinded its earlier approval for the recall. The Mayor's office argued that there was not any evidence that the organizer, Douglas Johnson, actually resided within the city limits of Detroit. Johnson stated that his group would refile using another person whose residency would not be an issue.<ref name="RecallStopped">{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080313/NEWS06/803130381 |title=Reversed decision kills recall petition |access-date=March 13, 2008 |last=Ashenfelter |first=DAVID |date=March 13, 2008 |newspaper=The Detroit Free Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301225731/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080313%2FNEWS06%2F803130381 |archive-date=March 1, 2014 }}</ref> On March 27, 2008, a second recall petition was filed against Kilpatrick by Angelo Brown. Brown stated in his filing that Kilpatrick is too preoccupied with his legal problems to be effective. Kilpatrick's spokesman James Canning again dismissed this latest recall by saying: "It's Mr. Brown's right to file a petition, but it's just another effort by a political hopeful to grab headlines."<ref name="Recall2">{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/NEWS01/80327060 |title=Detroit resident files recall petition against mayor |access-date=March 28, 2008 |last=Ashenfelter |first=David |date=March 27, 2008 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302002755/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080327%2FNEWS01%2F80327060 |archive-date=March 2, 2014 }}</ref>

On May 14 the [[Detroit City Council]] voted to request that the governor of Michigan, [[Jennifer Granholm]], remove Kilpatrick from office.<ref>{{cite news | first = Nick |last = Bunkley | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/13cnd-detroit.html?ref=us |title = Detroit Council Seeks Mayor's Ouster |date = May 14, 2008 | access-date = May 14, 2008 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

===Criminal charges brought===
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| conviction        = [[Obstruction of justice]] (x2), [[assault]] of a police officer, [[racketeering]], [[tax evasion]], [[extortion]], [[mail fraud]]
| conviction_penalty = {{ublist|120 days in jail & probation (original sentence)|1.5–5 years imprisonment (probation violation)|28 years in prison (federal trial)}}
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On March 24, 2008, Wayne County Prosecutor [[Kym Worthy]] announced a twelve-count criminal indictment against Kilpatrick and Beatty, charging Kilpatrick with eight [[felony|felonies]] and Beatty with seven. Charges for both included perjury, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. Worthy suggested that others in the Kilpatrick administration could also be charged.<ref name="Indictment">{{cite web |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/NEWS01/303250001 |title=Kilpatrick, Beatty face felony charges. The 12-count criminal information charges perjury, conspiracy, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. |access-date=March 24, 2008 |last=Ashenfelter |first=David |author2=Joe Swickard |date=March 24, 2008 |work=freep.com |publisher=Detroit Free Press |archive-date=March 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327172208/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/NEWS01/303250001 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The preliminary examination scheduled for September 22, 2008, was waived by both defendants, thereby allowing the case to proceed directly to trial.<ref name=prelim>{{cite web |date=May 19, 2008 |last=Guthrie |first=Doug |url=http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/METRO/805190353 |title=Worthy to appeal for new judge today |access-date=May 22, 2008 |work=detnews.com |publisher=The Detroit News}}</ref><ref name=waive>{{cite web |date=August 7, 2008 |last=Elrick |first=M.L. |author2=Jim Schaefer |url=http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080807/NEWS01/80807030/0/NEWS01 |title=Judge allows Kilpatrick, Beatty to waive prelim, go to trial |access-date=August 7, 2008 |work=detnews.com |publisher=The Detroit News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923223955/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080807%2FNEWS01%2F80807030%2F0%2FNEWS01 |archive-date=September 23, 2008 }}</ref>

In July 2008, Kilpatrick violated the terms of his bail by briefly traveling to [[Windsor, Ontario]], where he met with Windsor mayor [[Eddie Francis]] concerning a deal to have the city of Windsor take over operational control of the [[Detroit-Windsor Tunnel]] in exchange for a $75 million loan.<ref name="bail breach ott">{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=557bcb4c-2e07-4593-9e58-33715dc661a3|title=Detroit mayor jailed over trip to Canada|access-date=August 8, 2008|newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420121202/http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=557bcb4c-2e07-4593-9e58-33715dc661a3|archive-date=April 20, 2009}}</ref> As a result, on August 7, 2008, Kilpatrick was remanded to spend a night in the Wayne County Jail. It was the first time in history that a sitting Detroit mayor had been ordered to jail. In issuing the order, Chief Judge [[Ronald Giles]] stated that he could not treat the mayor differently from "[[Average Joe|John Six-Pack]]."<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge orders Detroit mayor to jail|date=August 7, 2008|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-07-detroit_N.htm | work=USA Today | access-date=May 7, 2010|first1=Jim|last1=Schaefer|first2=Ben|last2=Schmitt}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Detroit mayor ordered jailed for violating bond|date=August 7, 2008|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26073538 | work=NBC News | access-date=Dec 22, 2021}}</ref> On August 8, 2008, after arguments on Kilpatrick's behalf by attorneys [[Jim Parkman]] and Jim Thomas, Judge Thomas Jackson reversed the remand order and permitted Kilpatrick to be released on posting a $50,000 cash bond and the further condition that the mayor not travel, and wear an electronic tracking device.

The same day Kilpatrick was released under the second bail agreement, Michigan Attorney General [[Mike Cox (U.S. politician)|Mike Cox]] announced that two new felony counts had been filed against the mayor for assaulting or interfering with a law officer. The new charges arose out of allegations that Kilpatrick on July 24, 2008, shoved two Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies who were attempting to [[Service of process|serve]] a [[subpoena]] on Bobby Ferguson, a Kilpatrick ally, and a potential witness in the mayor's then-upcoming perjury trial.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

===Resignation from mayoralty===
On September 4, 2008, Kilpatrick announced his resignation as mayor,<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=c3b744a1-f623-4efb-955a-a586c06a1edf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080908001913/http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.aspx?content_id=c3b744a1-f623-4efb-955a-a586c06a1edf | archive-date = September 8, 2008 | title = Deal Reached in Mayor Scandal | date = September 4, 2008 | publisher = [[WXYZ-TV|WXYZ]]}}</ref> effective September 18,<ref name="plea bargain"/> and pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice and pleaded no contest to assaulting the deputy.<ref name="plea bargain">{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/309050001|title=Mayor: 'I lied under oath'|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=September 4, 2008|archive-date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518101746/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/309050001|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schaefer|first1=Jim|last2=Elrick|first2=M.L.|last3=Swickard|first3=Joe|last4=Schmitt|first4=Ben|date=September 5, 2008|title=Mayor admits guilt, resigns from office: 'I lied'|journal=Detroit Free Press|pages=1A}}</ref>

In the separate assault case, he pleaded [[Nolo contendere|no contest]] to one felony count of assaulting and obstructing a police officer in exchange for a second assault charge being dropped. This deal also required his resignation and 120 days in jail, to be served concurrently with his jail time for the perjury counts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/80904032/0/NEWS01 |title=Kilpatrick pleads no contest to charge of assaulting police |work=Detroit Free Press |access-date=September 4, 2008}}</ref> Kilpatrick was sentenced on October 28, 2008. The judge ordered that Kilpatrick not be given an opportunity for early release, but instead serve the entire 120 days in jail.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20081028/NEWS01/810280341/1002/NEWS01 |title = Judge: No early release for Kilpatrick | agency = Associated Press |date = October 28, 2008}}{{dead link |date = December 2012}}</ref>

Detroit City Council President [[Kenneth Cockrel, Jr.]] replaced Kilpatrick as mayor at 12:01&nbsp;a.m. September 19, 2008.

===First sentencing===
Judge David Groner sentenced Kilpatrick to four months in jail on October 28, 2008, calling him "arrogant and defiant" and questioning the sincerity of a guilty plea that ended his career at City Hall. The punishment was part of a plea agreement worked out a month earlier. "When someone gets 120 days in jail, they should get 120 days in jail," Groner said. Kilpatrick also was given a 120-day concurrent sentence for assaulting a sheriff's officer who was trying to deliver a subpoena in July.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008323957_ndig29.html?syndication=rss | work=The Seattle Times | title=Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sent to jail | date=October 29, 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622094742/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008323957_ndig29.html?syndication=rss | archive-date=June 22, 2011 }}</ref> He was seen smirking, laughing, and even calling the sentencing a "joke".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.freep.com/article/20081028/NEWS01/81028099/?imw=Y |date = October 28, 2008 | newspaper = Detroit Free Press | title = Kilpatrick's smirks, family's fury add to drama in the court | first = Bill |last = McGraw}}</ref>

Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans said that they take 40,000 prisoners into the prison annually, but that Kilpatrick would be kept separate from the general population and "won't be treated any worse or any better than other prisoners."
He was housed in a secured, 15 feet by 10 feet cell with a bed, chair, toilet and a shower, spending approximately 23 hours a day there.<ref>{{cite web|author=Huliq |url=https://www.huliq.com/2623/71606/kwame-kilpatrick-text-messages-christine-beatty-leading-jail |title=Kwame Kilpatrick Text Messages With Christine Beatty Leading To J |date=October 28, 2008 |publisher=Huliq.com |access-date=August 23, 2010}}</ref> At 12:35&nbsp;a.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, Kilpatrick left jail after serving 99 days. He boarded a privately chartered Lear jet and landed in Texas that evening.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090205/METRO/902050393 | date = February 5, 2009 | title = Kilpatrick takes on 'the Big D' in style | first1 = George | last1 = Hunter | first2 = David | last2 = Josar | first3 = Doug | last3 = Guthrie | newspaper = The Detroit News | access-date = December 14, 2012 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072937/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090205/METRO/902050393 | archive-date = October 6, 2014 }}</ref> He was supposed to join his family in a $3,000 per month rental house in Southlake, Texas.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wilonsky |first=Robert |url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/02/really_kwame_kilpatricks_flyin.php |title=Really? Kwame Kilpatrick's Flying Private Planes to Love Field and Living in Southlake? – Dallas News – Unfair Park |publisher=Blogs.dallasobserver.com |date=February 4, 2009 |access-date=August 23, 2010 |archive-date=September 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904043611/http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/02/really_kwame_kilpatricks_flyin.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Within a couple of weeks, Kilpatrick was hired by Covisint, a Texas subsidiary of [[Compuware]], headquartered in Detroit. CEO of Compuware [[Peter Karmanos, Jr.]] was one of the parties who loaned large sums of money to Kilpatrick in late 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009902130383 |title=Kilpatrick backer now his employer &#124; detnews.com &#124; The Detroit News |publisher=detnews.com |access-date=August 23, 2010}}</ref> Kilpatrick was let go from Compuware in May 2010 after being sentenced to prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20100525/NEWS01/100525031/1321/Kilpatrick-fired-after-being-sent-to-prison-18-months-to-5-years |title=Kilpatrick imprisoned, faces 1½ to 5 years |work=Detroit Free Press |publisher=freep.com |access-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref>

====Restitution hearing====
Kilpatrick claimed poverty to Judge David Groner. He said he only had $3,000 per month (later lowered to $6) for the restitution payments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/28/Lawyer-Kilpatrick-cant-pay-restitution/UPI-47081238285540/ |title=Lawyer: Kilpatrick can't pay restitution |publisher=UPI.com |date=March 28, 2009 |access-date=August 23, 2010}}</ref>

Judge Groner requested detailed financial records for Kilpatrick, his wife, their children, etc. By November 2009, Kilpatrick was on the stand in Detroit to explain his apparent poverty. He claimed to have no knowledge about who paid for his million-dollar home, [[Cadillac Escalade]]s, and other lavish expenses. The former mayor also denied any knowledge of his wife's finances, or even whether she was employed. During this hearing, it was revealed that [[Peter Karmanos Jr.]], [[Roger Penske]] and other business leaders had provided substantial monies to the Kilpatricks to convince the mayor to resign his office and plead guilty.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20091210/NEWS01/912100421/1001/NEWS/Kilpatrick-hearing-ends-ex-mayor-to-return-home |title=Kilpatrick Hearing Ends, Ex-Mayor to Return Home |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=December 10, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302005807/http://www.freep.com/article/20091210/NEWS01/912100421/1001/NEWS/Kilpatrick-hearing-ends-ex-mayor-to-return-home |archive-date=March 2, 2014 }}</ref> On January 20, 2010, Judge Groner ruled that Kilpatrick pay the sum of $300,000 to the city of Detroit within 90 days.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/01/live_video_at_3_pm_judge_to_ru.html |title=Judge orders ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pay Detroit more than $300,000 within 90 days |agency =Associated Press |date= January 20, 2010 |access-date=August 23, 2010}}</ref>

===Second sentencing===
[[File:2010-kilpatrick-usmarshals-mugshot.JPG|thumb|July 2010 [[mugshot]] of Kilpatrick]]

On February 19, 2010, Kilpatrick missed a required restitution payment of $79,000. The court received only $14,000 on February 19 and then only another $21,175 on February 22. On February 23, Judge Groner approved a warrant for Kilpatrick and ruled in April that he had violated the terms of his probation. On May 25, 2010, Kilpatrick was sentenced to one and a half to five years with the [[Michigan Department of Corrections]] (with credit for 120 days previously served) for violation of probation,<ref name=ClickonDetroit2010>{{cite web
 | title = Kilpatrick Headed to Prison – Detroit Local News Story – WDIV Detroit
 | url = http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/23657675/detail.html?hpt=T2
 | date = May 25, 2010
 | author = ClickonDetroit.com
 | access-date = May 25, 2010
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 | archive-date = May 28, 2010
 }}</ref> and was afterwards taken back into correctional custody. He was housed for fourteen days in the hospital unit of the state prisoner reception center.<ref name="Guthrie">{{cite news | last = Guthrie |first = Doug |url = http://www.detnews.com/article/20110810/METRO01/108100383/1008/Kwame-Kilpatrick-ordered-to-pay-$15-190-in-prison-costs |title = Kwame Kilpatrick ordered to pay $15,190 in prison costs | newspaper = [[The Detroit News]] |date = August 10, 2011 |access-date = August 13, 2011 | quote = Kilpatrick spent his last 118 days in a general population cell at the Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson at a daily cost of $83.08. ... Figures provided in court Wednesday through the testimony of a Michigan Department of Corrections auditor show that when Kilpatrick first reported to prison, he was held 14 days in the hospital facility of the state's inmate reception center in Jackson at a cost of $127.40 per day.}}{{dead link | date = December 2012}}</ref> Kilpatrick was later housed in the [[Oaks Correctional Facility]].<ref name="Kilpatrick in Manistee prison">{{cite web
 |title      = Kilpatrick moves to new prison for his 40th birthday
 |url        = http://m.detnews.com/detail.jsp?key=665254&rc=ne&full=1
 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130121101129/http://m.detnews.com/detail.jsp?key=665254&rc=ne&full=1
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-date = January 21, 2013
 |date       = June 9, 2010
 |author     = Doug Guthrie
 |access-date = September 18, 2010
 |work       = The Detroit News
}}</ref>

After he was indicted in federal court for additional crimes related to alleged misuse of his campaign funds, Kilpatrick lobbied for a transfer from the Oaks Correctional Facility.<ref name="MDOCprofile">{{cite web |url=http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=702408 |title=Offender Tracking Information System (OTIS) – Offender Profile |access-date=May 30, 2010 |date=May 25, 2010 |publisher=Michigan Department of Corrections |archive-date=February 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202182834/http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=702408 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On July 11, 2010, he was transferred into the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] (BOP).<ref name="Guthrie"/> Kilpatrick was incarcerated in the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Milan|Milan Federal Prison]] near<!--It is not in the town limits--> [[Milan, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Kwame&Middle=&LastName=Kilpatrick&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0 | title = Kwame Malik Kilpatrick | publisher = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] | access-date = September 16, 2010 | archive-date = June 29, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629174906/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Kwame&Middle=&LastName=Kilpatrick&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0 | url-status = dead }}</ref> He was released from federal custody on April 6, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Kwame&Middle=&LastName=Kilpatrick&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0 | title = Kwame Malik Kilpatrick | publisher = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] | access-date = August 13, 2011 | archive-date = June 29, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629174906/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Kwame&Middle=&LastName=Kilpatrick&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0 | url-status = dead }}</ref> During his final 118 days of state imprisonment, Kilpatrick resided in the Cotton Correctional Facility.<ref name="Guthrie"/> Kilpatrick was released on parole on August 2, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=702408 | title = Kwame Malik Kilpatrick | publisher = [[Michigan Department of Corrections]] | access-date = August 13, 2011}}</ref><ref name="freep2011">{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/110624030/ |title=State Parole Board votes to release ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630094640/http://www.freep.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/110624030 |date=June 24, 2011 |access-date=June 24, 2011 |archive-date=June 30, 2011 |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/kwame-kilpatrick-released-from-prison/ |title=Kwame Kilpatrick Released On Parole |access-date=October 20, 2011 |date=August 2, 2011 |publisher=[[WWJ-TV]] |archive-date=October 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013155457/http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/kwame-kilpatrick-released-from-prison/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In August 2011 the court ordered Kilpatrick to pay for his incarceration costs.<ref name="Guthrie"/>

===Second criminal trial and conviction===
On December 14, 2010, Kilpatrick was again indicted on new corruption charges, in what a federal prosecutor called a "pattern of extortion, bribery and fraud" by some of the city's most prominent officials. His father, Bernard Kilpatrick, was also indicted, as was contractor Bobby Ferguson; Kilpatrick's aide, Derrick Miller; and Detroit water department chief Victor Mercado.<ref name="npr.org"/><ref>[https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/12/federal_grand_jury_indicts_det.html Feds say 'culture of corruption is over' as grand jury indicts former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 4 others in city hall probe], Jeff T. Wattrick, MLive.com, December 15, 2010</ref> The original 38-charge indictment listed allegations of 13 fraudulent schemes in awarding contracts in the city's Department of Water and Sewerage, with pocketed kickbacks of nearly $1,000,000. He was arraigned on January 10, 2011, on charges in the 89-page indictment. Federal prosecuting attorneys proposed a trial date in January 2012, but defense attorneys asked for a trial date in the summer of 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/01/10/Kwame-Kilpatrick-four-others-arraigned/UPI-94391294706141/ |title=Kwame Kilpatrick, four others arraigned |publisher=UPI.com |date=January 10, 2011 |access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref>

Opening statements in the trial began on September 21, 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/kilpatrick-federal-corruption-trial-date-set-for-september-2012 |title=Kilpatrick federal corruption trial date set for September 2012 |work=Action News wxyz.com |date=April 13, 2011 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418005329/http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/kilpatrick-federal-corruption-trial-date-set-for-september-2012 |archive-date=April 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20120921/NEWS0102/309210046/Venue-change-nixed-Kilpatrick-corruption-trial-gets-under-way |title=Venue change nixed; Kilpatrick corruption trial gets under way |work=Detroit Free Press freep.com |date=September 21, 2012 |access-date=September 21, 2012}}</ref> Prosecutors soon brought forth a large number of witnesses who gave damaging testimony.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/kwame-kilpatrick-trial-2012 |title=Kwame Kilpatrick Trial 2012 |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=March 13, 2013}}</ref> Mercado took a plea deal while the trial was in progress.<ref>[http://www.freep.com/article/20121106/NEWS0102/311060067/Victor-Mercado-plea-deal-a-boost-for-U-S-prosecutors-in-Kwame-Kilpatrick-trial Victor Mercado plea deal a boost for U.S. prosecutors in Kwame Kilpatrick trial], ''Detroit Free Press'', November 6, 2012</ref> On March 11, 2013, in spite of a vigorous defense that cost taxpayers more than a million dollars,<ref>{{cite news|title=Kwame Kilpatrick's legal bill to public|newspaper=Lansing State Journal|date=February 13, 2014|page=3A}}</ref> Kilpatrick was found guilty by a jury on two dozen counts including those for racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion, among others. Shortly after conviction, speaking about Kilpatrick, Judge Nancy Edmunds ruled in favor of remand saying "detention is required in his circumstance".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/kwame-kilpatrick-and-bobby-ferguson-remanded-to-detention-facility-immediately |title=Kwame Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson arrive at federal prison in Milan after guilty convictions |date=March 9, 2013 |work=WXYZ |publisher=Scripps Media, Inc |access-date=March 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313053906/http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/kwame-kilpatrick-and-bobby-ferguson-remanded-to-detention-facility-immediately |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was sentenced to 28 years in prison on October 10, 2013.<ref name="fed sentence" /><ref>[http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/11/17269402-ex-detroit-mayor-kilpatrick-convicted-of-range-of-corruption-charges?lite Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick convicted of range of corruption charges] NBC News, March 11, 2013</ref> Kilpatrick, [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] Register #44678-039, was serving his sentence at [[Federal Correctional Institution, Oakdale]], a low-security prison in [[Oakdale, Louisiana]]. There is no parole in the federal prison system. However, with time off for good behavior, his earliest possible release date was August 1, 2037—when he would be 67 years old.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/;jsessionid=993EEAA75869B74E04BE223544D423FE|title=Inmate Locator|website=www.bop.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20131010/NEWS0102/310100095/Kwame-Kilpatrick-sentencing|title='Corruption no more': Judge sends a message with 28-year sentence for Kilpatrick|work=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>

Mercado pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, Bobby Ferguson was sentenced to 21 years in prison,<ref>[http://www.freep.com/article/20131011/NEWS0102/310110042/bobby-ferguson-sentencing-public-corruption-kwame-kilpatrick Judge hits Bobby Ferguson with 21 years: 'Catalyst at the center' of Detroit corruption], ''Detroit Free Press'', October 11, 2013</ref> Derrick Miller pleaded guilty to tax evasion and was sentenced to three years supervision, the first year in a halfway house.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao/mie/news/2011/2011_9_12_dmiller.html Former City of Detroit Administrative Officer Pleads Guilty to Corruption and Tax Offenses] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020044451/http://www.justice.gov/usao/mie/news/2011/2011_9_12_dmiller.html |date=October 20, 2013 }}, U.S. attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan, September 12, 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/former-kilpatrick-friend-derrick-miller-dodges-prison-sentenced-to-1-year-in-halfway-house Former Kilpatrick friend Derrick Miller dodges prison, sentenced to 1 year in halfway house] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606231314/http://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/former-kilpatrick-friend-derrick-miller-dodges-prison-sentenced-to-1-year-in-halfway-house |date=June 6, 2014 }}, Heather Catallo, ABC News Detroit, May 29, 2014</ref> Bernard Kilpatrick was sentenced to 15 months in prison.<ref>[http://www.freep.com/article/20131017/NEWS0102/310170087/Bernard-Kilpatrick-sentencing Bernard Kilpatrick sentenced to 15 months in prison], ''Detroit Free Press'', October 17, 2013</ref> Emma Bell received two years probation and was fined $330,000 in back taxes as part of a plea deal where she testified that she frequently handed Kilpatrick large amounts of cash skimmed from campaign accounts.<ref>[https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/investigations/emma-bell-gets-2-years-probation/-/1719314/24203486/-/1yjqf9z/-/index.html Emma Bell gets 2 years probation], Dave Bartkowiak Jr., WDIV, January 30, 2014</ref>

First Independence Bank, used by Kilpatrick and Ferguson, was fined $250,000 for failing to follow anti-money-laundering regulations.<ref>[http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-bank-fined-250k Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's bank fined $250K] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019080454/http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-bank-fined-250k |date=October 19, 2013 }} WXYZ-TV News, October 18, 2013</ref> 14 companies were suspended from bidding on contracts with the water department in the wake of the scandal. Inland Waters Pollution Control Inc. paid $4.5 million in the settlement of a lawsuit over their involvement with Kilpatrick, Ferguson and the Detroit Water Board.<ref>[http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130224/NEWS/302249982/# Kilpatrick contractor], Crain's Detroit Business, February 27, 2013</ref> Lakeshore TolTest Corp. reached a $5 million settlement with the Water Board to avoid litigation.<ref>[Lakeshore TolTest reaches $5M settlement to avert liability in Kilpatrick corruption case], ''Crain's Detroit Business'', February 19, 2013</ref>

In August 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld his convictions but ordered that the amount of restitution be recalculated.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/ex-detroit-mayor-kilpatrick-loses-appeal-conviction-192614555.html Ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick loses appeal of conviction], Reuters, Jonathan Stempel, August 14, 2015</ref> In June 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his appeal.<ref>[https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/supreme-court-denies-former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-appeal US Supreme Court denies appeal from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Kilpatrick convicted of rigging contracts, taking bribes], Halston Herrera, ClickOnDetroit, June 27, 2016</ref>

In June 2018 Kilpatrick began seeking a pardon from President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/06/12/kwame-kilpatrick-doj-commutation-pardon-trump/696748002/|title=Kwame Kilpatrick asks Donald Trump for pardon, clemency|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=August 23, 2018|language=en}}</ref> His application was opposed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for southeast Michigan.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Baldas |first=Tresa |date=February 19, 2020 |title=US Attorney: Kwame Kilpatrick shouldn't get pardon. He got what he deserved |newspaper=The Detroit Free Press |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/02/19/trump-pardon-kwame-kilpatrick-detroit-us-attorney/4811302002/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220180534/https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/02/19/trump-pardon-kwame-kilpatrick-detroit-us-attorney/4811302002/ |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Restitution claims and other civil lawsuits accumulated claimed $10 million in debts, for which Kilpatrick is responsible. Kilpatrick has no assets to settle these claims.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Snell |first=Robert |date=April 30, 2018 |title=Kilpatrick faces $11M debt once he leaves prison |newspaper=The Detroit News |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/04/30/kwame-kilpatrick-debts/34426213/?from=new-cookie |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502191839/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/04/30/kwame-kilpatrick-debts/34426213/?from=new-cookie |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Commutation of sentence===
On January 20, 2021, President [[Donald Trump]] commuted Kilpatrick's sentence with less than 12 hours remaining before the end of his first non-consecutive term.<ref name="Statement from the Press Secretary (2021)">{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency |date=January 20, 2021 |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ |access-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131173516/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|url-status=live}}</ref> The White House statement on the commutation of Kilpatrick reads: "Mr. Kilpatrick has served approximately 7 years in prison for his role in a racketeering and bribery scheme while he held public office. During his incarceration, Mr. Kilpatrick has taught public speaking classes and has led Bible Study groups with his fellow inmates."{{r|Statement from the Press Secretary (2021)}}

President Trump's commutation allowed Kilpatrick to gain release 20 years early, though it did not vacate his conviction.<ref name="Baldas"/> The commutation left in place the almost $4.8 million in restitution and the three-year probation.<ref>[https://www.wxyz.com/news/kwame-kilpatrick-to-pay-nearly-5-million-in-restitution-serve-three-year-probation Kwame Kilpatrick to pay nearly $5 million in restitution, serve three-year probation], WXYZ, January 21, 2021</ref> Kilpatrick will not be able to run for office in Michigan until 2033 as a felon is excluded from politics for 20 years after conviction under Michigan law.<ref>[https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/president-trump-pardons-former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick President Trump commutes sentence for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick], WXYZ, January 20, 2021</ref>

==Other post-mayoral legal developments==
In 2012, the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] charged Kilpatrick and former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley for having received $180,000 in travel, hotel rooms, and gifts from a company seeking investments from the city pension fund. Chauncey C. Mayfield and his company were also brought before administrative proceedings.<ref>[https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/ia-3640.pdf SEC Mayfield] </ref> The company received a $117 million investment in a [[real estate investment trust]] that it controlled.<ref>[https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1365171488986#.UzWFPYWUOME SEC Charges Former Detroit Officials and Investment Adviser to City Pension Funds in Influence Peddling Scheme], SEC, May 9, 2012</ref><ref>[https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2012/comp-pr2012-88.pdf 2:12-cv-12109-VAR-RSW United States Securities and Exchange Commission v. Hon. Kwame M. Kilpatrick, Jeffrey W. Beasley, Chauncey C. Mayfield, and Mayfield Gentry Advisors, LLC], SEC, May 9, 2012</ref> MayfieldGentry proceeded to misappropriate $3.1 million from the pension fund which was revealed during the influence peddling investigation.<ref>[https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2013/lr22720.htm SEC Charges Top Officials At Investment Adviser in Scheme to Hide Theft from Pension Fund of Detroit Police and Firefighters], SEC, June 10, 2013</ref> Mayfield pleaded guilty in 2013. The case was scheduled for June 2014.<ref>[https://archive.today/20140329004952/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140226/METRO01/302260116 Pension funds settle class-action negligence suit for $7.9M], Christine Ferretti, ''The Detroit News'', February 26, 2014</ref>

According to ''[[The Detroit News]]'' (June 24, 2010), Kilpatrick, his father Bernard, and the Kilpatrick Civic Fund may have been important figures in the sludge hauling contract that saw city council president [[Monica Conyers]] (wife of Rep. [[John Conyers]]) and her chief of staff Sam Riddle convicted for conspiracy and bribery. "Kilpatrick and his father also figured, but have not been charged, in evidence surrounding a bribery-tainted, $1.2 billion sewage sludge contract the Detroit City Council awarded to Synagro Technologies Inc. in 2007. According to court documents and people familiar with the case, former Synagro official James Rosendall made large contributions to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund and gave Kilpatrick free flights to Las Vegas and Mackinac Island. Rosendall also told investigators he made cash payments to Bernard N. Kilpatrick, who told Rosendall he got him access to City Hall, records show."<ref>{{cite news | newspaper = The Detroit News | url = http://detnews.com/article/20100624/METRO01/6240405/Feds-not-finished-with-Detroit-corruption-probe#ixzz0rlhxUpz9 | title = Feds Not Finished With Detroit Corruption Probe | date = June 24, 2010}}{{dead link|date = December 2012}}</ref> Rosendall and a Synagro consultant Rayford Jackson were also convicted of bribery.

==Memoir==
Kilpatrick co-wrote a memoir about his life and political experiences titled ''Surrendered: The Rise, Fall, & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick''.<ref name="kwamekilpatrickbook.com">{{cite web
 | title = Surrendered: The Rise, Fall, & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick
 | url = http://kwamekilpatrickbook.com/
 | access-date = November 29, 2011
 | archive-date = November 16, 2011
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111116045916/http://kwamekilpatrickbook.com/
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref> The book was originally scheduled for release on August 2, 2011, a date that would have just barely preceded his scheduled release from a Michigan prison.<ref name="Kilpatrick book delayed">{{cite web
 | title = Felon Kwame Kilpatrick's book delayed as he's set to leave prison, and why his legacy matters
 | url = https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/08/felon_kwame_kilpatricks_book_i.html
 | date = August 1, 2010
 | author = Jeff T. Wattrick
 | access-date = November 29, 2011
 | work = [[MLive.com]]
}}</ref> However, the publisher delayed the release to August 9, almost a week after Kilpatrick was paroled. Kilpatrick appeared at public events in Michigan and elsewhere to promote his book.<ref name="Kilpatrick appears at EMU">{{cite web| title = Students say Kwame Kilpatrick has something to offer on redemption| url = https://www.annarbor.com/news/students-say-kwame-kilpatrick-has-something-to-offer-on-redemption/| date = November 28, 2010| author = Kellie Woodhouse| access-date = November 29, 2011| work = [[AnnArbor.com]]}}</ref>

The public prosecutor in Wayne County, Michigan has asked the state courts to order the book's publisher, Tennessee-based Creative Publishing Consultants Inc., to remit Kilpatrick's share on the book's proceeds for payment toward Kilpatrick's criminal restitution and his cost of incarceration.<ref name="Court seeks book profits">{{cite web| title = Court seeks Kwame Kilpatrick book profits| url = http://detnews.com/article/20111105/METRO01/111050333/Court-seeks-Kwame-Kilpatrick-book-profits| date = November 5, 2011| author = Doug Guthrie| access-date = November 29, 2011| work = [[The Detroit News]]}}</ref> On November 16, 2011, the publisher's attorney failed to appear at a hearing on the matter in Wayne County Circuit Court. A bench warrant was issued for the attorney, Jack Gritton, and was forwarded to authorities in Tennessee, where Gritton's practice is based.<ref name="Lawyer flouts subpoena">{{cite web|title=Lawyer flouts subpoena in Kwame Kilpatrick book-profits case; judge issues arrest warrant |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20111116/NEWS01/111116040/Lawyer-flouts-subpoena-Kwame-Kilpatrick-book-profits-case-judge-issues-arrest-warrant |date=November 16, 2011 |author=Joe Swickard |access-date=April 18, 2016 |work=[[Detroit Free Press]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221033240/http://www.freep.com/article/20111116/NEWS01/111116040/Lawyer-flouts-subpoena-Kwame-Kilpatrick-book-profits-case-judge-issues-arrest-warrant |archive-date=December 21, 2011 }}</ref>

== Post-release activities ==
Since release, Kilpatrick has worked as an "ordained minister, motivational speaker, consultant, and certified character coach".<ref>{{cite web |title=Kwame Kilpatrick - About |url=https://www.movementalministries.org/about |website=Movemental Ministries |access-date=26 April 2023}}</ref> In April 2023, Kilpatrick was a guest speaker at the "Black Agenda Movement" conference, organized by YouTuber Michelle R. Kulczyk (Meechi X).<ref>{{cite web |title=Bio: Kwame Malik Kilpatrick, CEO, Movemental Ministry |url=https://www.theblackagendamovement.com |website=Black Agenda Conference |access-date=26 April 2023}}</ref>

On June 15, 2024, Kilpatrick endorsed [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2024 United States presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Endorses Donald Trump|url=https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/32015/ex-detroit_mayor_kwame_kilpatrick_endorses_donald_trump |website=Deadline Detroit |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref>

==Electoral history==
*'''2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit)'''
**Kwame Kilpatrick (D) (incumbent), 53%
**[[Freman Hendrix]] (D), 47%
*'''2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit) (Primary Election)'''
**[[Freman Hendrix]] (D), 45%
**Kwame Kilpatrick (D) (incumbent), 34%
**[[Sharon McPhail]] (D), 12%
**[[Hansen Clarke]] (D), 8%
*'''2001 Race for Mayor (Detroit)'''
**Kwame Kilpatrick (D), 54%
**[[Gil Hill]] (D), 46%

===Affiliations===
As a politician, Kilpatrick was a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref name="reuters.com">{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2431691120080324 | work=Reuters | title=Detroit's mayor indicted in sex scandal | date=March 24, 2008}}</ref>

Kilpatrick was a member of the [[Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition]], a [[bi-partisan]] anti-gun group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition was co-chaired by Mayor [[Thomas Menino]] of [[Boston]] and [[Michael Bloomberg]] of [[New York City]]. Following Kilpatrick's conviction in 2013 on federal charges, his membership status in the organization was initially not clear. As of September 2010, there had been no announcement of his resignation from Mayors Against Illegal Guns; however, by December 2012, he was no longer listed as a member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/members/members.shtml |publisher=Mayors Against Illegal Guns |title=Coalition Members |access-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020183627/http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/members/members.shtml |archive-date=October 20, 2013 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
===Health===
In July 2006, Kilpatrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with [[diverticulitis]] while in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]. His personal physician indicated that Kilpatrick's condition may have been caused by a high-protein weight-loss diet.<ref>{{cite news | title = Diet May Be To Blame In Kilpatrick's Illness | newspaper = Detroit Free Press | first1 = Marisol | last1 = Bello | first2 = Kim | last2 = Norris | date = July 10, 2006 | page = A.1 | url = http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060711/NEWS01/607110357 | access-date = December 14, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131222632/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/1766365401.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+10,+2006&author=MARISOL+BELLO;KIM+NORRIS&pub=Detroit+Free+Press&edition=&startpage=A.1&desc=DIET+MAY+BE+TO+BLAME+IN+KILPATRICK'S+ILLNESS|archive-date=January 31, 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Michigan|Biography|Politics}}
*[[Barbara L. McQuade]], U.S. attorney who obtained a large number of indictments against Kilpatrick.
*[[Louis Miriani]], former mayor of Detroit
*[[Richard Reading]], former mayor of Detroit
*[[List of 2010s American state and local politicians convicted of crimes]]
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