Corey Williams

March 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

By COREY WILLIAMS

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February 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the government's federal corruption case against Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle.Jurors had told U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn last week that they were having trouble reaching a consensus on a verdict.Cohn met with each juror Wednesday morning at the start of the sixth day of deliberations.

By COREY WILLIAMS

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September 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - A lawyer for the City Council urged Michigan's governor at an extraordinary hearing Wednesday to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, accusing the mayor of lies and a cover-up that have "gravely wounded" the city.A lawyer for the mayor called the council's allegations "an Olympic effort to contort the truth.

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS

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August 22, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - A prosecutor made a surprising offer Friday to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: resign by Sept. 3 in exchange for the dismissal of one of two assault charges. But Kilpatrick rejected the deal.Doug Baker of the Michigan attorney general's office disclosed the plea offer during a routine arraignment for Kilpatrick on the charges in one of two criminal cases against him.

By COREY WILLIAMS

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March 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been arraigned on a probation violation and released on a $10,000 personal bond pending another hearing.A Wayne County Circuit Court judge entered a not guilty plea on Kilpatrick's behalf on Tuesday.The judge ordered Kilpatrick to stay in Michigan until Thursday's hearing, when he rules on a defense motion to remove another judge from the case.

By COREY WILLIAMS

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August 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS

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September 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has failed to stop Gov. Jennifer Granholm from moving ahead with an extraordinary public hearing that could cost him his job in a scandal over steamy text messages and millions of tax dollars.Kilpatrick's lawyers struck out with pleas to a Wayne County judge and the Michigan Court of Appeals, clearing the way for Granholm to begin hearing evidence Wednesday about the mayor's role in a $8.

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS

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August 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the night in jail after a judge ruled he violated the terms of his bond in his perjury case by making a business trip to Canada and not informing the court.The ruling Thursday by Judge Ronald Giles came after the mayor apologized to the court, saying it won't happen again.

By COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE

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November 01, 2007 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - A celebrity jeweler who put diamonds on celebrities from Sir Elton John to Kanye West pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.Terms of the plea deal call for Jacob Arabov of New York to serve up to 46 months in prison and pay a $2 million penalty, U.

By Corey Williams

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July 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By COREY WILLIAMS

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