Sheryl Robinson Wood, a former Venable and Saul Ewing partner who served as a federally mandated police monitor in Detroit from 2003 until 2009, has been sued for $10 million in fees she accrued while allegedly carrying on an improper relationship with former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the city’s suit against Wood — filed last month in state court — has been moved to federal court in Detroit at her lawyers’ request. As part of the suit, the city claims for the first time that Wood and her former employers submitted fraudulent invoices to a federal court, according to The Detroit News.
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