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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was removed from his office in early September after he plead guilty to two criminal charges and Ken Cockrel, Jr. has already been sworn in as the new Mayor of Detroit … but the day has come for Mr. Kilpatrick to start paying for his crimes. Calling the man “arrogant and defiant” a Wayne County judge sentenced Kilpatrick to serve 4 months in jail without any hope of early release under any circumstances. Here is a pic of Mr. Arrogant and Defiant smiling away in court right before he was dragged away to his jail cell and the cell where he will be living for the next 4 months:

Calling him “arrogant and defiant,” a Wayne County Circuit Judge on Tuesday sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to four months in jail with no early release under the terms of a plea deal. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty last month to two felony obstruction of justice charges stemming from his efforts to cover up an extramarital affair. He also pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a police officer attempting to serve a subpoena on a Kilpatrick friend in that case. Kilpatrick resigned from office last month after pleading guilty to charges resulting from a sex scandal. He was accused of blocking a criminal investigation into his office and firing a police deputy to cover up an extramarital affair and other possible illicit activities. After the deputy, Gary Brown, lost his job, a mayoral bodyguard, Officer Harold Nelthrope, left his job voluntarily when the atmosphere became too tense, said his attorney in the whistle-blower suit trial. Walt Harris, another former mayoral bodyguard, filed his own whistle-blower suit, contending he was punished for supporting Nelthrope’s reports of wrongdoing by Kilpatrick and his bodyguards. The city of Detroit paid $8.4 million to settle the lawsuits, but legal fees have pushed that figure to at least $9 million. Prompted by the judge to recount his wrongdoing last month, Kilpatrick admitted, “I lied under oath in the case of Gary Brown and Harold Nelthrope versus the city of Detroit. … I did so with the intent to mislead the court and the jury and to impede and obstruct the fair administration of justice.” Kilpatrick had faced eight felony counts. As part of a plea agreement, six counts related to misconduct in office were dropped, and a perjury count was changed to a second obstruction of justice charge. In a separate case against Kilpatrick, Circuit Court Judge David Groner accepted a no-contest plea on an assault charge brought against the mayor in July after he allegedly shoved a police officer trying to serve a subpoena on a friend of Kilpatrick’s who was a potential witness in his perjury case.

The court recently released the text messages that got Kwame in trubs in the first place. Sometimes graphic and oftentimes idiotic, the text messages can be read HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. The City of Detroit and, indeed, humanity will be well served by having Kwame Kilpatrick locked away behind bars. Good riddance.

UPDATE: The Detroit Free Press has just posted Kwame Kilpatrick‘s newest mugshot (to add to his other mugshot) that was snapped right before he was thrown into his jail cell:

Dear Kwame,

Please rot.

Signed,
The City of Detroit, all Detroiters everywhere and, indeed, The World

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Thank sweet Jebus above … Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has finally decided to plead guilty to two of the criminal charges against him and is in court right now confessing his guilt in open court in Detroit, MI as I type this post. Under the terms of his plea bargain, Kilpatrick will resign his office as Mayor of the City of Detroit, pay restitution fines and will submit to jailtime:

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s tenure as mayor of Detroit is over. He just entered into a plea agreement, according to prosecutor Lisa Lindsey. The deal calls for Kilpatrick to plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice by committing perjury, agreeing to serve four months in jail, pay up to $1 million in restitution, and serve five years’ probation. He also agreed not to run for office during that five-year span. The mayor will turn over his state pension to the City of Detroit, which paid $8.4 million to settle two whistle-blower lawsuits three former cops filed against the city. The mayor was charged with eight felony counts ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice after the Free Press revealed that the mayor lied on the witness stand during a police whistle-blower trial and gave misleading testimony about whether he intended to fire a deputy police chief investigating allegations of wrongdoing by members of his inner circle. Just before huddling with his attorney, a smiling Kilpatrick jousted with reporters sitting in the first row of the courtroom. He, apparently good-naturedly, told them their reports were wrong and they needed to check their sources. He did not elaborate. He also shook hands with Christine Beatty, his former chief of staff and ex-lover. Beatty has left the courtroom with her attorneys, Mayer and Jeff Morganroth, and a man believed to be her pastor. First lady Carlita Kilpatrick is in the courtroom. This is the first time she’s been in a courtroom with Beatty since the scandal started in January … In January, the newspaper published text messages Kilpatrick and his then-chief of staff Christine Beatty exchanged on city issued pagers. Worthy cited the investigation in March, when he charged Kilpatrick with eight felonies and Beatty with seven.

Earlier this week, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy had offered the mayor six months in jail. That apparently was lowered to four months by Wednesday night. At one point Wednesday afternoon, Kilpatrick met with his department directors and staff at a regular meeting. The subject of his criminal cases was raised, said a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a private meeting. The subject of the mayor’s leaving office came up, but Kilpatrick did not commit one way or the other and urged his top staff to remain focused, this source said. The mayor’s plea likely means Gov. Jennifer Granholm will cancel a second day of removal hearings for the mayor. The historic proceedings began Wednesday at Cadillac Place, the state office building located in the New Center, about 10 minutes from the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice where Kilpatrick entered his equally historic guilty plea … Kilpatrick is also facing two felony charges for allegedly assaulting deputies trying to serve a subpoena last month at the home of his sister, Ayanna. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s office is handling that case.

I cannot express my extreme happiness at this news. Honestly, with as stubborn as powerhungry as I believe Kwame Kilpatrick to be, I never thought he’d actually plea bargain his way out of this … I have always contended that as long as he is removed from office AND serves some measure of jailtime, then I would be satisfied. Under the terms of his plea bargain, he will lose his pension, will pay the City of Detroit $1 million dollars and will serve 4 months in jail — I am satisfied. Enjoy jail Kwame, may you spend your time thinking about how much you hurt the City of Detroit with your criminal actions. It is now time for my beloved Detroit City to heal from this deadly cancer that was eating away at it for so many years. I choose to see this as a happy day for Detroit, not a sad one as some believe … the future begins now.

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The Wayne County jail that has been honored with the duty of incarcerating the sitting mayor of Detroit, Michigan, Kwame Kilpatrick, has just released his lovely mugshot which I know present to all y’all:

In case you missed it earlier, Kwame Kilpatrick (the disgraceful current mayor of the city of Detroit) was sentenced to a spend a night in jail for violating the terms of his bond stemming from a criminal charge against him of obstruction of justice and perjury (read all about it HERE) and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department has just released his booking photo. It’s a dark day for the city of Detroit but hopefully it is the beginning of a bright new future … once Kilpatrick is removed from office and a more fitting mayor can be installed/elected.

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Very sad and shameful news out of my beloved Detroit, Michigan today. The current mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been sentenced to serve one night in jail after it was revealed that Kilpatrick defied the terms of his bond after being charged with perjury and obstruction of justice (the latest in a long list of crimes and misdemeanors). Even tho I have been away from the Detroit Metro area for a couple of years now, I am well aware of Kilpatrick‘s shady biz and have never been a fan of his tactics or his leadership of the city. As embarrassingly shameful as it is, I am very glad to know that the judge in this case deemed it appropriate to lock up the sitting mayor and force him to endure a night in jail as part of his punishment. Here are a couple pics from court today, the second shows Kwame Kilpatrick being led away to a holding area before being transferred to his awaiting jail cell:

Judge Ronald Giles just sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail moments after the mayor pleaded for forgiveness and admitted he made an unauthorized trip to Windsor on city business. As of noon Kilpatrick was still at 36th District Court being processed for transfer to Wayne County Jail. “The first day you were before me, I thought I made it clear to you that this court comes first in everything,” Giles said. “I do understand that you’re under…pressure…but I have to look at how the system should be run and perceived by the public. At the beginning of this case you were given every privilege that could be given to you with regard to travel,” Giles said, adding that he later imposed restrictions after learning Kilpatrick had been abusing his privileges. “At that time I made it perfectly clear … don’t come back … ,” he said. Giles revoked Kilpatrick’s $75,000 10% bond and ordered him jailed … Giles’ jailing of Kilpatrick leaves no clear line of authority in who is running the city because there currently is no deputy mayor. Anthony Adams has temporarily relinquished his deputy mayor duties to be the interim director of the Water and Sewerage Department, and Kilpatrick said at the time of that announcement that chief of staff Kandia Milton and chief operating officer Cathy Square would divide up Adams’ deputy mayor duties. The charter provides that in the “absence or temporary disability” of the mayor that the deputy mayor is the acting mayor. Giles’ comments came after Kilpatrick told the judge he had been living under incredible pressure for the past 7 months. “I don’t believe that there is a person that’s ever been through this process that respects it more than I do,” Kilpatrick said, referring to the legal proceedings stemming from the eight felonies ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice filed against him in March. “Last week was a tremendous wake-up call to me,” he said, referring to Giles’ rebuke last month after he allegedly assaulted law enforcement officials trying to serve a subpoena … Kilpatrick admitted violating the terms of his bond by traveling to Windsor without notifying the court. He said he was sorry. “My life has been revolutionarily transformed and it’s transforming in front of the eye of these media people who don’t know me at all,” he said, referring to what he called intense scrutiny. “Your honor, I ask for your forgiveness…it will never happen again.” He said his sons were watching these proceedings because he asked them to. “I told them that I did something wrong,” he said. Kilpatrick further said he was not “frolicking” in Windsor but trying to make a deal that would let him avoid laying off more than a thousand city workers. “I apologize to the citizens as well, but mostly to you. It was never an affront to you,” he said of the trip. Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran said the mayor’s pleas rung hollow. “Now that he’s caught, he’s taking responsibility…he thought he got away with it,” Moran said.

I have always contended that Kwame Kilpatrick is a criminal and now we have the bona fide proof … a sitting mayor has been sent to jail! I really hope this serves as the FINAL WAKE UP CALL to the people of Detroit that Kilpatrick is not fit to serve as mayor of the city I love so much. I will be very surprised if he isn’t impeached and removed from office, it should’ve happened a long time ago. His laundry list of crimes and malfeasance is too long to list here … as sad as I am for the way this makes Detroit look I am very happy that someone finally held Kilpatrick accountable for something. He is an embarrassment and I hope this will be the final end of him. After the jump, watch video of Kilpatrick‘s pitiful apology to the court …