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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Jailed For Political Corruption

Ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick isn’t the first politician to fall from grace but he gets our award for most outlandish corrupt politician of 2010. Strippers, extra-marital affairs, bribery, nepotism and fraud were all part of Kilpatrick’s history as a young mayor of a troubled town.

He resigned as mayor in 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in state court. He lied about an affair he was having with his chief of staff and also tried to pay off Detroit Police to cover up illegal happenings in his office.  Kilpatrick got news of the new federal charges against him last week behind bars.

According to the New York Times, “the federal indictment says that Kwame Kilpatrick used donations to a charity known as the Kilpatrick Civic Fund to pay for golf clubs, summer camp for his children, yoga classes and antibugging equipment. As a state representative, Mr. Kilpatrick diverted $280,000 in grant money meant to help the elderly and children; the funds instead went to nonprofits controlled by his wife and Mr. Ferguson, who used it for personal expenses, the indictment says.”

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