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Is it worth 15 years for perjury?


Mayor Kilpatrick, chief of staff lied under oath, text messages show
Romantic exchanges undercut denials by mayor, chief of staff

January 23, 2008

By JIM SCHAEFER and M.L. ELRICK
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS

COPYRIGHT ©2008, DETROIT FREE PRESS

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied about their relationship last summer at a police whistle-blower trial that has cost the cash-strapped city more than $9 million, according to records obtained by the Free Press.

The false testimony potentially exposes them to felony perjury charges, legal experts say.

Kilpatrick and chief of staff Christine Beatty denied during testimony in August that they had a sexual relationship. But the records, a series of text messages, show them engaged in romantic banter as well as planning and recounting sexual liaisons.

The messages are also at odds with the pair's trial testimony that they did not fire Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown in 2003, an ouster that led him to sue. The text messages show Beatty recalling the "decision that we made to fire Gary Brown."

The newspaper examined nearly 14,000 text messages on Beatty's city-issued pager. The exchanges, which the Free Press obtained after the trial, cover two months each in 2002 and 2003.

The Kilpatrick-Beatty relationship and Brown's dismissal were central to the whistle-blower suit filed by Brown and Harold Nelthrope, a former police officer and mayoral bodyguard. The two cops accused Kilpatrick of retaliating against them because of their roles in an internal affairs investigation of the mayor's security team -- a probe that potentially could have exposed the affair.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS05/301230004

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Only in Detroit ...

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Cueing up Starman to weigh in on weighty Kwame in 5... 4... 3..

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

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Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

It's a running joke, Zeke. Duh. ...

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

It is what it is.

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Detroit's a good town to go to to get your ass kicked.

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

yeah... duh... and happy infidelity day

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Silly me, I thought that was North Broad in Philly.

Let's get this thread back on track.

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Shit, I can get my ass kicked anywhere I go. There's no sense in wasting money on a plane ticket.

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Hey, take it to a PM.

 

Re: Hey Mr. Mayor, about that affair you testified you didn't have...

Quit buyin' prostitutes, fat ass.