DETROIT AP-Kwame Kilpatrick has been a master salesman, bargaining to bring improvements to Detroit and to prove to skeptics that the struggling city is worth the investment. But now the two-term mayor could be forced to negotiate a more personal deal, one that exchanges a dimming political future for his freedom.
Experts say Kilpatrick has little choice but to work out a plea in two criminal cases before Michigan’s governor has the potential of forcing him from office. A formal removal hearing is scheduled to start Wednesday.
