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Detroit mayor, aide plead not guilty

By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer



DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges they lied under oath about having an affair.

The mayor and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty appeared for separate hearings in the scandal that is threatening to prematurely end Kilpatrick's second term.
District Court Magistrate Steve Lockhart entered not guilty pleas for each of them on charges of perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. Both were released on personal bonds.
The two are accused of lying under oath about an affair and their roles in the firing of a top police official. Text messages first reported by the Detroit Free Press revealed a flirty, sometimes explicit, dialogue between the two.
Attorneys for Kilpatrick and Beatty have said their clients will be exonerated.
In setting the mayor's personal bond, Lockhart noted defendants generally are restricted to the state of Michigan while their cases are pending. However, given Kilpatrick's position, Lockhart granted him the right to travel anywhere within the United States without prior permission, but said Kilpatrick still must give advance notice to the court.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the charges on Monday after an investigation that began in late January after the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from 14,000 text messages that were sent or received in 2002-03 from Beatty's city-issued pager.
The messages called into question testimony Kilpatrick and Beatty gave last August in a lawsuit filed by two police officers who said they were fired for investigating claims that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.
In court, Kilpatrick and Beatty strongly denied having an intimate relationship. But the steamy text messages revealed a dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their trysts.
Kilpatrick, 37, is married with three children. Beatty, also 37, was married at the time and has two children.
The city eventually agreed to pay $8.4 million to the two officers and a third former officer. Some of the charges brought against the mayor accuse him of agreeing to the settlement in an effort to keep the text messages from becoming public.
"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.
"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"
On Oct. 16, 2002, Kilpatrick wrote: "I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days. Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."
All of the charges against the mayor are felonies. Under the city charter, a felony conviction would mean the mayor's immediate expulsion.
Kilpatrick has said he will not resign, and his attorney, Dan Webb, said forcing him to step down now would punish the mayor before he has had his day in court.
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Detroit mayor, aide plead not guilty - Yahoo! News


2 Detroit Newspapers are calling for him to quit :lol:
 
He'll continue to pull the race card on this one. It's all the white suburban people trying to set him up. The racial divide in Detroit is horrible, and the city (black) vs. suburb (white) battle is always blown up by Detroit mayors.

All I can say is they re elected this idiot after numerous scandals. I can't count how many interviews that were done with voters in Detroit and they all said "well, he learned his lesson," or "at least we know what we will get with him." All they did was tell him it's ok to lie, cheat, steal and even murder (oh yeah, there is definitely a shady death he was involved with). He has cost Detroit millions, and made it even worse (which is hard to do). I hope he goes to jail for a long time.
 
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Taosman;1124000; said:
Why don't we not go there, scott? :shake:
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What, the race deal? Sorry, but I lived outside of Detroit for 9 years. It's true. Detroit mayors take their failures and make racist statements against the "white" suburbs to cover their own ass. Coleman Young watched Detroit turn into a 3rd world country and convinced the Detroit voters that it was all a suburban plot to destroy Detroit. Just recently Kilpatrick threw out the N word concerning how the media sees him (ya know, the "white" media). It's a complete joke, and sorry you don't like the truth. Detroit mayors have stolen millions from the city, and pull the race card every time they get into trouble.

Thank God for the freedom of information act, or this whole thing would have been just another conspiracy by the racist Detroit media and the voters would have eaten it up. Kilpatrick helped ruin the lives of multiple people, including the officers who he fired because they were going to expose him. I hope he rots in jail. Of course the poor stripper who was murdered, in which he was very likely involved with, had her life affected the most.
 
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