County Prosecutor Won’t Charge Detroit Mayor
Thu, 03/13/2008 - 14:54 — Judicial Watch Blog

The county prosecutor who refuses to charge Detroit’s corrupt mayor with perjury—despite overwhelming evidence—is notorious for being soft on crime and bargaining with armed felons.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy claims her office is still investigating whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his city employee mistress committed perjury to hide their extramarital affair even though undisputable concrete evidence proves it.

Furthermore, Kilpatrick has admitted and apologized for lying under oath to hide the extramarital affair with his former chief-of-staff, Christine Beatty. His confession came during a public apology after a Detroit newspaper published a series of sexually explicit text messages exchanged between the secret lovers on their city-owned pagers during their year-long heated romance.

Both Kilpatrick and Beatty lied about the affair during a scandalous police whistleblower trial that cost taxpayers millions, partly to conceal their romance. The city eventually settled the case against the cops who were fired for raising questions about the mayor’s security team which could have led them to discover the extramarital affair. The city paid them $8.4 million.

At the beginning of March Worthy said she would determine whether to charge Kilpatrick with perjury on March 14. Now she says she won’t make a decision for another two weeks because her office needs more time to investigate the matter. If Worthy, who made headlines for becoming the county’s first black female prosecutor, continues exceeding her own deadlines her credibility will be further diminished considering the evidence is quite clear. A perjury conviction could send Kilpatrick to jail for 15 years.

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