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Detroit now can call him ex-mayor Kilpatrick. Just a while ago he pleaded guilty to two felony charges.
He also plead no contest to the assault charge of pushing a process server.

Funny thing too which really rubs salt in the wounds of Detroit is that he gave salary raises to most of his close appointed officials, which include the police chief.
The chief of police then announced her retirement during the ex-mayor’s plea hearing. Those pay raises now give them more money for their pension calculations.

The city is so financially strapped and he gives away money like that?

The city just took a big hit today with all of these dominos going down.

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I found these pictures of Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick kind of funny. Currently he’s embroiled in a text messaging scandal with one of his female staff.

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Here’s just what is in today’s Detroit Free Press….

They took all the T.V.’s out of the Detroit Police Department facilities. Rumor is that when the Mayor was indicted, all the police officers watching cheered. That didn’t go over too well with the upper ranks who are aligned with the Mayor.

Christine Beatty, the Mayor’s “sideline whore” was job hunting out of state in Atlanta and Alabama. When the court found out, they order her and her attorneys into court behind closed doors. The judge ordered her to stay within Michigan and has her now on an electronic tether. She’s currently out on $75,000 personal bond for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the text message scandal with the Mayor.

One of the city lawyers who was part of the “secret” deal to settle the wrongful termination lawsuit which in turn, brought out into the open the Mayor’s sexy text messages, is now changing her story. She originally told the court she wasn’t aware of signing any confidentiality agreement on the wrongful termination suit. Now she issues a letter to the court that she recalls signing it.

How much more bullshit is going to come out of this city’s leaders? I think Coleman Young’s ghost still haunts the city with this crew of idiot leaders.

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This was my opthalmologist… He never did anything to me, I feel left out.

(2008, March). Oakland county news briefs.
Retrieved March 27, 2008, from Detroit Free Press Web site:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803260370

Township police want patients of ophthalmologist Matthew Lloyd Burman, to call investigators with information about possible inappropriate physical contact by Burman.
Burman, 64, was arraigned Tuesday in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac on a charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and a $500 fine, upon conviction.
The charges were brought following an investigation into an alleged August incident between Burman and a patient at Burman’s office at 10 W. Square Lake Road.
Burman pleaded not guilty and was released on $1,000 bond. His trial is scheduled for May before Circuit Judge Steven Andrews.
Anyone with information about further incidents involving Burman is asked to call investigators at 248-433-7760 anytime.

My company just keeps on changing. The “Home Depot Crew” think that speed and change is a good thing. Yes, to a point. Everyone is so off balance that a lot of people are having a tough time keeping up. Although it’s touted as moving the company forward and streamlining (fill in all the other buzzwords), the working level people are losing focus.

Higgins, Tim (2008, March). Chrysler shuffles development execs again. Retrieved March 28, 2008, from Detroit Free Press Web site: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803260313

For the second time in two months, Chrysler LLC has announced changes to the ranks of top executives overseeing vehicle development.

The latest shakeup comes with the departure of Michael Donoughe, the Chrysler vice president who had been leading the efforts to come up with future product in the midsize car segment.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said late Tuesday that Donoughe left in a dispute with senior managers.

David Barnas, a Chrysler spokesman, declined to talk about why Donoughe left other than to say: “Chrysler denies that the departure had anything to do with a clash with management.”

In late January, Chrysler announced a reorganization of its product development and said that Donoughe would lead future midsize car development, calling it “an important vehicle category worldwide.”

His job on the so-called Project D is believed to have begun last fall after Bob Nardelli took over as Chrysler’s chief executive. Previously, Donoughe had overseen key vehicles such as the Dodge Ram and Jeep Wrangler.

Chrysler’s current lineup of midsize cars — the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger — has struggled and the company is trying to better compete.

With Donoughe’s departure, Chrysler has turned to Mark Chernoby to lead development of a new midsize car as vice president and chief engineer for Chrysler’s future midsize product team.Chernoby had been vice president of core components, processes and international engineering.

 

 

James Issner replaces Chernoby in that role. Issner had been vice president of advance vehicle engineering.

 

 

Lou Rhodes, who is president of Chrysler’s ENVI — an effort to bring electric-drive vehicles and related advanced-propulsion technologies to market — will take on the additional title of vice president of advance vehicle engineering.

 

 

Contact TIM HIGGINS at 313-222-8784 or thiggins@freepress.com.

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