Just as the media is looking back at the ten-year anniversary of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff are facing accusations of lying under oath in a very similar case. The evidence under uncovered by the Free Press appears quite credible and damning for both Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff Christine Beatty.
The problems for Kilpatrick and Beatty were triggered in the same way as Clinton’s: when their alleged affair became the subject of a trial. The Detriot case involved a lawsuit by two police officers — Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown and former mayoral police bodyguard Harold Nelthrope. They charged that they were followed due to their involvement in an internal investigation that threatened to expose unlawful or unethical conduct by the mayor, including his affair with Beatty. The trial cost the city over $9 million and the affair was fair game for questions.In their testimony, Kilpatrick and Beatty were both asked directly whether they were romantically involved was asked:
“During the time period 2001 to 2003, were you and Mayor Kilpatrick either romantically or intimately involved with each other?” Rolling her eyes, Beatty answered: “No.” Kilpatrick testified for more than three hours the next day. Stefani asked him: “Mayor Kilpatrick, during 2002 and 2003 were you romantically involved with Christine Beatty?” Kilpatrick’s response: “No.”
The Free Press went back and found text messages that appear to show that both lied under oath.
The text messages cover a range of issues, from the daily minutiae of city business to political gossip to the latest doings on “American Idol.” Kilpatrick and Beatty, both 37, exchanged personal messages almost daily, including romantic notes. “I’m madly in love with you,” Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002. “I hope you feel that way for a long time,” Beatty answered. “In case you haven’t noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!” Other texts contain sexual content, like this exchange on April 8, 2003: Beatty: “And, did you miss me, sexually?” Kilpatrick: “Hell yeah! You couldn’t tell. I want some more.”
The Free Press also quotes such exchanges as:
“I’ve been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days,” the mayor wrote on Oct. 16, 2002. “Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love. … In 2002, among their intimate text conversations, Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty planned a clandestine meeting in the mayor’s Washington hotel room during the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference. Beatty asked the mayor, on Sept. 12, 2002, if she could “come and lay down in your room until you get back?” The next morning Kilpatrick, referring to his bodyguards, wrote: “They were right outside the door. They had to have heard everything.” Beatty replied: “So we are officially busted!” “Damn that,” Kilpatrick responded. “Never busted. Busted is what you see!”
Perhaps the most embarrassing for Kilpatrick is the outrage that he expressed at trial and indicated that such an affair would mean that Beatty would be little more than a “whore.”
During the trial, Kilpatrick bristled when testifying about speculation that he and Beatty were lovers. “I think it was pretty demoralizing to her — you have to know her — but it’s demoralizing to me as well,” he said. “My mother is a congresswoman. There have always been strong women around me. My aunt is a state legislator. I think it’s absurd to assert that every woman that works with a man is a whore. I think it’s disrespectful not just to Christine Beatty but to women who do a professional job that they do every single day. And it’s also disrespectful to their families as well.”
Now, the mayor is demanding privacy in a “profoundly embarrassing” disclosure and insist that the alleged misconduct “reflect a very difficult period” in his life. There is no more denial of an affair, but the classic response of a politician caught in a sexual scandal: “My wife and I worked our way through these intensely personal issues years ago.” The matter, however, is no longer a spousal point of contention. Once he lied under oath, it became a criminal matter with a potential for a 15-year sentence (though such a sentence is extremely unlikely).
While this matter may fall under state perjury laws, the standards are largely the same with the federal system.
There are generally three types of perjury charges. One is the most obvious: making false statements under oath as covered by laws like 18 U.S.C. 1621. Another charge covers material false statements under oath in related proceedings or grand juries, as with 18 U.S.C. 1623. Finally, there is the charge of suborning perjury or inducing or procuring another to lie as covered by 18 U.S.C. 1622.
The government must generally show that the defendant knowingly made of false statement or committed these other acts. There is also the possible charge of lying to investigators.
For Kilpatrick, there is probably enough on the basis of these message to charge false statements and possibly suborning perjury. Such an investigation would likely put pressure on Beatty to accept a plea for cooperation in exchange for a lower sentence.
With additional lawsuit pending, it can only get worse as Detroit waits for news of a criminal investigation and possible bar charges.For the full story, click
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I am a believer in doing what’s right. Prosecutor Worthy has done the right, for Detroit and its residents.
The sad part about previous comments,is that you take us all for idiots, just because of our geographical location. We desire great leadership, all people have been fooled at one point in time. This just happened to be our second time. We believed that he would be an intricate component in our GREAT CITY’S revival. Detroit, doesn’t deserve the constant ridicule from the nose-bleeds. Show us someone who honestly want to roll up their sleeves and fight a fair fight for us (residents of Detroit) and we will give them a chance.
He has let us down, we are hurting by this. We can’t stand for you always pointing fingers at us when in truth you need DETROIT.
Kilpatrick seems like a plain and simple thug. The sad thing is, I bet the trash of Detroit elect him again. I blame the liberals. Civil rights may have been violated in 1940, but by God the streets were safe at night. Now you have the criminals running the show. If Kilpatrick gets charged (big if) it will be a slap on the wrist, and the next election it will be back to business (pronounced biziness) as usual. Can’t you just here the Detroiters now “You don’t be tellin us no nuthin!” Detroit is a lost cause.
Get rid of that mindless idiot you Detroiters call a mayor! For goodness sake what does it take to get that piece of foul smelling trash out of there? I as a canadian have watched with utter a mazement at the disgraceful behaviour of that poor excuse for a man. Come on detroit get some back bone and give him the boot with a nail on the end of it. A canadian watching you.
It’s only going to get worse. Kwame will get a slap on the hand and things will be business as usual. The gangsta mayor will be back in business. He likes that perception you know. It’s no wonder, The urban, outlaw, disrespectful to all attitude has been advertised and propigated by the government and corporations as natural and good in order to make millions on the behavior. Cheat on your wife, it’s the cool thing to do. You can get a pastor to rationalize it on television. Just a bump in the road. Breaking the law has become an honest mistake, unfortunate fall from grace but, temporary when all the other gangstas chime in publically, ” oh come now, this happens to the best of people”. So, because it happens often, we become desensitised to it and say he is still a good person when he really isn’t. Now a days, you can assume the roll of ( good person ) and still get away with murder. When I see Kwame on TV, I mute the sound. I may have to see hime from time to time but, I don’t have to go through the nausea of listening to his lies.
I think the mayor an Ms. Beatty should be prosecuted for perjury. His credibility as a mayor is shot, his actions criminal. Enough with shaming and disgracing my city. I say these things without prejudice, as I am an African American Detroiter that works hard to pay her taxes!
Detroit is one of the world’s great cities, now in a more convenient smaller size! But seriously, our mayor is not different from his peers in the political elite nationwide. The top-down presumption of electoral stupidity enables such displays of entitlement. In holding our leaders accountable the Detroit Free Press showed what a great city this is. Lets hope the national media can live up to this standard in the coming national election. (I’m not holding my breath.)
Detroit is a joke, always will be with clowns like that in any public office. The sad truth is that if an election were held this year for Detroit mayor. He would be elected again. Detroit deserves what it gets.
When will people ever come to realize that character counts when you’re voting someone in office? At a time when Detroit desperately needs to pull itself out of the deep hole it dug for itself, the good mayor continues to suck up resources and attention better spent elsewhere.
Let him step down and put this behind us. And then let’s get someone else in there who doesn’t flaunt his personal character flaws.