Corey Williams

September 05, 2008 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city - and left the door open for a return to public life.Kilpatrick walked into a City Hall conference room Thursday to thunderous applause and thanked his family, backers and staff members for sticking by him during his rocky 6-year tenure.

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS

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December 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit.The attractive, 27-year-old mother of three was shot several times in the pre-dawn hours of April 30, 2003, while sitting in a parked car outside a home on the city's northwest side.

By COREY WILLIAMS

5 minute read

February 26, 2010 | Daily Report Online

DETROIT AP - If ever a public figure should be down for the count, it is Kwame Kilpatrick.Stripped of his job as Detroit's mayor, locked in jail for 99 days and saddled with a felony record, he is legally prohibited from seeking the only occupation he ever wanted - elected leader. And his troubles keep coming.

By COREY WILLIAMS

5 minute read

August 19, 2008 | Law.com

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick won a small but much-needed legal victory when a judge ruled the Detroit City Council doesn't have the authority to force him from office. The mayor, facing 10 felony counts in two cases, still has a big fight ahead of him to stay in office -- and out of jail. "We'll take it. We'll take this," said James Thomas, part of the team representing Kilpatrick on a number of legal fronts, including separate perjury and assault cases.

By Corey Williams

3 minute read

December 08, 2009 | Law.com

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick denied in court Monday that he made threats to a prosecutor during a recorded jailhouse phone call to his wife while he was serving time following a text-messaging sex scandal that led to his resignation. "When we get the loot, we're going to take her all the way out," Kilpatrick told his wife. Kilpatrick admitted that he was referring to the head of the prosecutor's office but said he was referring to the prosecutor's role in his restitution process.

By Corey Williams

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