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Detroit mayor dragged into sludge probe
His father, Bernard N. Kilpatrick, has ties to one Detroit area businessman who is already under federal indictment and two others who still are being investigated, the newspaper reported Thursday.
Included among the elder Kilpatrick's connections was Maynard Jackson, a former consultant and local partner to Synagro Technologies Inc. That Houston firm received a controversial $47 million annual city contract for waste removal that is the subject of a federal investigation targeting at least four City Council members and others in and around Detroit government.
It was also disclosed Wednesday that Synagro official James Rosendall donated $10,000 in 2005 to the mayor's political action committee. The report undermines Kwame Kilpatrick's efforts this week to distance himself from the FBI probe, the Detroit Free Press said.
James Parkman III, his attorney, said Kilpatrick is not worried.
"The mayor may know some of these people -- he knows a lot of people -- but he has not in any way, any form or fashion been involved in any illegality, any investigation, any FBI probe or any bribe whatsoever," Parkman said.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
This news arrived on: 07/04/2008
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07-05-2008 15:52
D. Grant Chee---- wrote:
Another criminal in govt???
Kwame? This Mayor is innocent---until proven culpable. If it walks like a duck----probably is a duck. Sad! Very sad. What is wrong with our people? Maybe a lack of love for the only nation we have? We can hope Mayor Kwame is innocent but not be surprised if he is guilty. Sad! Give people a troubled city and some make it worse. Very sad.
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