WATCH: FORMER DETROIT MAYOR KWAME KILPATRICK, HIS FATHER & OTHER CO-HORTS GET INDICTED ON 38 COUNTS OF CORRUPTION...

Top: Jailed Kwame Kilpatrick, Bottom Left to Right: city contractor Bobby Ferguson, former water department chief Victor Mercado, Kwame's father Bernard Kilpatrick and former top aide Derrick Miller. All are being targeted in a massive corruption investigation as announced today per the video below...



This is just NOT a good look. Kilpatrick is already doing 2-5 for probation violation but there's sooo much more to the story that meets the eye. Obviously. Folks gon' think twice about votin' in a Black Mayor again. Anyone remember Marion Barry? Damn shame. Pop the Trunk for more details...

The defendants extorted money from municipal contractors, state and non-profit donors and engaged in bribery and extortion involving other public contracts and investments.

The indictment said that Ferguson kicked back at least $424,000 in cash and other items of value to the mayor and that Kilpatrick used more than $590,000 in cash derived from the conspiracy to pay his credit card bills, purchase cashier's checks and clothing and repay loans.

Bernard Kilpatrick, the indictment said, deposited more than $600,000 in cash into his personal bank accounts. He was charged with three counts of filing false tax returns for calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2007.

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