Ethics

The Wit and Wisdom of Kwame Kilpatrick

By Ed Brayton

We thought we'd gotten rid of the astonishingly corrupt and ridiculous former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, last year when he was forced to resign and left the state for a new job in Dallas, Texas. Alas, we're still dealing with him - and it's getting entertaining. He's required to pay $6,000 a month in restitution to the city of Detroit, but he's been pleading poverty for months and wants his restitution reduced way down to almost nothing.

Mind you, he lives in a mansion in a gated community in Dallas, working for a company owned by Detroit businessman Peter Karmanos, who also gave him $50,000 to convince him to resign as mayor. And he just spent more than $15,000 on plastic surgery for his wife, which he tried to explain in court on Tuesday as the tears flowed:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 13, 2009 (boomark / email).