55 Facts About Kwame Kilpatrick

Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to four months in jail and was released on probation after serving 99 days.

In May 2010, Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to eighteen months to five years in state prison for violating his probation, and served time at the Oaks Correctional Facility in northwest Michigan.

In October 2013, Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison, and was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana.

Kwame Malik Kilpatrick was born June 8,1970, to Bernard Kilpatrick and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.

Kwame Kilpatrick has a sister Ayanna and a half-sister, Diarra.

Kwame 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.

Kwame Kilpatrick was not re-elected to office because she lost her primary election in August 2010 to State Senator Hansen Clarke.

Kwame Kilpatrick's father Bernard was a semi-professional basketball player and politician.

Kwame Kilpatrick was elected to the Wayne County Commission, served as head of Wayne County Health and Human Services Department from 1989 to 2002, and as chief of staff to former Wayne County Executive Edward H McNamara.

Kwame 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.

Kwame Kilpatrick was elected minority floor leader for the Michigan Democratic Party, serving in that position 1998 to 2000.

Kwame Kilpatrick was elected as house minority leader in 2001, the first African-American to hold that position.

In 2001, Kwame Kilpatrick became the youngest mayor of Detroit when he took office at age 31.

Kwame Kilpatrick paid back $9,000 of the $210,000 credit card charges.

Meanwhile, Kwame Kilpatrick closed the century-old Belle Isle Zoo and Belle Isle Aquarium because of the city's budget problems.

In October 2005, a third-party group supporting Kwame Kilpatrick, named The Citizens for Honest Government, generated controversy by its print advertisement that compared media criticism of the mayor to lynch mobs.

However, as the votes were tallied, it became clear that Kwame Kilpatrick had come back from his stretch of unpopularity to win a second term in office.

In July 2006, Kwame Kilpatrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with diverticulitis while in Houston, Texas.

Kwame Kilpatrick told the City Council that he would take partial blame for the late audits because he laid off too many accountants, but he blamed the firm hired to replace them.

In March 2008, Kwame Kilpatrick delivered his seventh "State of the City" address to the city of Detroit.

Kwame Kilpatrick specifically noted increased police surveillance, new policing technologies, and initiatives to rebuild blighted neighborhoods.

Kwame Kilpatrick received repeated standing ovations from the invitation-only audience.

Toward the end of the speech, Kwame Kilpatrick deviated from the transcript given to the media and posted on his official website 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 lead to racist attacks against him and his family.

In July 2008, Kwame 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.

On September 4,2008, Kwame Kilpatrick announced his resignation as mayor, effective September 18, and pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice and pleaded no contest to assaulting the deputy.

The judge ordered that Kwame Kilpatrick not be given an opportunity for early release, but instead serve the entire 120 days in jail.

Kwame Kilpatrick was seen smirking, laughing, and even calling the sentencing a "joke".

Kwame Kilpatrick boarded a privately chartered Lear jet and landed in Texas that evening.

Kwame Kilpatrick was supposed to join his family in a $3,000 per month rental house in Southlake, Texas.

Kwame Kilpatrick was let go from Compuware in May 2010 after being sentenced to prison.

Kwame Kilpatrick said he only had $3,000 per month for the restitution payments.

Kwame Kilpatrick claimed to have no knowledge about who paid for his million-dollar home, Cadillac Escalades, and other lavish expenses.

On January 20,2010, Judge Groner ruled that Kwame Kilpatrick pay the sum of $300,000 to the city of Detroit within 90 days.

On February 19,2010, Kwame Kilpatrick missed a required restitution payment of $79,000.

On May 25,2010, Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to one and a half to five years with the Michigan Department of Corrections for violation of probation, and was afterwards taken back into correctional custody.

Kwame Kilpatrick was housed for fourteen days in the hospital unit of the state prisoner reception center.

Kwame Kilpatrick was incarcerated in the Milan Federal Prison near Milan, Michigan.

Kwame Kilpatrick was released from federal custody on April 6,2011.

Kwame Kilpatrick appeared at public events in Michigan and elsewhere to promote his book.

On December 14,2010, Kwame 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.

Kwame Kilpatrick was arraigned on January 10,2011, on charges in the 89-page indictment.

On March 11,2013, in spite of a vigorous defense that cost taxpayers more than a million dollars, Kwame Kilpatrick was found guilty by a jury on two dozen counts including those for racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion, among others.

Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison on October 10,2013.

In June 2018 Kwame Kilpatrick began seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Kwame Kilpatrick's application has been opposed by the US Attorney's Office for southeast Michigan.

Since release, Kwame Kilpatrick has worked as an "ordained minister, motivational speaker, consultant, and certified character coach".

Kwame Kilpatrick appealed to the commission to reconsider its decision on the grounds that Johnson was not a resident of Detroit.

Brown stated in his filing that Kwame Kilpatrick is too preoccupied with his legal problems to be effective.

Kwame Kilpatrick used his influence while in the Michigan legislature to funnel state grant money to two organizations that were vague on their project description.

Kwame Kilpatrick's father-in-law Carlton Poles was a veteran DC Police officer.

Ayanna Kwame Kilpatrick is married to Daniel Ferguson, cousin of Bobby Ferguson, later indicted along with Kwame Kilpatrick.

On May 8,2007, WXYZ-TV reported that Kwame Kilpatrick used $8,600 from the Kwame Kilpatrick Civic Fund to take his wife, three sons and babysitter on a week-long vacation to a five-star California resort, the La Costa Resort and Spa.

Tax and accounting experts said Kwame Kilpatrick's use of the fund was a violation of IRS regulations.

On June 23,2010, Kwame Kilpatrick was indicted on 19 federal counts including 10 counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, five counts of filing a false tax return, and one count of tax evasion.

The FBI announced that Derrick Miller, a close friend of Kwame Kilpatrick's who was a top adviser in the Kwame Kilpatrick campaigns and most recently was the chief information officer of the City of Detroit, was named as a target of the corruption investigation.