Blasted on the front pages of the Detroit Free Press www.freep.com and Detroit News www.detnews.com is the breakdown of Kwame’s world tour to a couple of radio stations yesterday. Check on the links to the right for additional information.
I’m not going to go word by word ad nausea as it has been well documented that many of the comments espoused were simply inaccurate or blatant lies. But I will say that per the Kwame Manifesto as illustrated in a previous post (see the “Demise of Kwame”) the spin is in full swing. I am surprised that he has come out this early to try and gain support which makes me believe that his counsel knows that they are going to lose their appeal and the full documents will be out sometime next week.
But let’s break this down for a moment because Kilpatrick stated that the Free Press obtained the text messages illegally and that HIS rights were violated as they were of private negotiated settlement – the same settlement that was conveniently withheld from City Councils view. Prior to printing the story the Free Press advised the Mayor of such with 24 hours notice and asked for comment of which he declined. His argument would stand if he had counsel request an injunction from the court requesting that the paper couldn’t run with the story. No – what he did was call Kim Worthy attempting to manipulate her in not pressing charges. (See post “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!!!”) Nor has his attorneys sought legal relief from the paper. This illustrates a couple of things about Kilpatrick –
1) He knows this is the truth but the majority of Detroiters don’t – so what do you do? Manipulate the citizens into believing that you were wronged by blaming everyone but yourself.
2) He’s trying to shift the argument to blaming the messenger – not the message (i.e. text messages).
I have read the 50 plus page appeal from the city and the Judges original order to release the documents and the city doesn’t have a case. But to clarify, their argument is predicated on the fact that they believe the documents were attorney/client privilege exempt not only from FOIA but also from the Open Meetings Act. Thus, all documents contained in the agreement were private and not subject to scrutiny.
The Judge however makes a compelling and correct argument that when the contents contain evidence that substantiate fraud and perjury on the court then they can’t be the basis of any agreement of which the case was said party.
Michael Stefani is a slick lawyer. Knowing that the Text Messages were public documents he used the contents against Kilpatrick to gain a quick settlement. Now I don’t know where the Free Press obtained the messages but I can tell you that even if he elected to release them and even if Kilpatrick found out they still wouldn’t be able to collect any of the settlement money back from the Plaintiffs as detailed in the secret agreement because the agreement hid damaging proof of perjury from the defendant.
{Editors note: There has been discussion about what is and what isn’t classified as a secret agreement. The city says it’s not – everybody else states the contrary. It goes like this – a confidential agreement is confidential if only privy to the parties in question. It would stay confidential in front of the City Council if they announced that the documents were key to the resolution of the settlement. However, with this being a public matter the council could elect to see the documents in private thus preserving the contents from public view and satisfying the need for council to make a qualified decision on whether to accept the settlement. Kilpatrick didn’t want to take the risk of being exposed by council so he purposely elected not to inform them of the full settlement. That’s when it became secret. The parties in the suit knew but no one else.}
So let’s summarize the events at hand (and I’m going to do this Detroit style since Kwame likes to play Detroit – white man is out to get us victim). Note, this is completely conjectured and is strictly my opinion. (That’s my disclaimer so I won’t be sued…)
The plaintiff lawyers goes to Kwames lawyers and says,
“Hey, We won the damn case fair and square and now yall want to settle for peanuts! I got $500,000 in attorney’s fees coming to me and I want yall to pay up now!”
The city attorneys Say,
“Puh-leese….We can drag this out for another couple years while your clients suffer through appeals. We got all the time in the world so you tell Brown, Nelthrope and your other client Walt Harris that they can kiss our ass until we tell them to stop! And for that half a million you want (laughs and grab his testicles)….
The Plaintiffs’ Lawyer says,
“Hmmmm…..I see well Mr. City Attorney why don’t you pass this envelope over to Massa Boss Attorney and tell him to get back to me…will ya’ do that for me? (Massa Boss is the lead attorney Sam McCargo)
The envelope is passed containing a motion from Stefani to be sent to the judge detailing the text messages, accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice – the whole nine…
Within one day if not minutes Sam McCargo speaks to Stefani privately,
“Michael, my dear man, certainly we can come to an amicable agreement that will satisfy all parties can’t we? What do you want? Wait! How about the FULL settlement amount plus your attorneys fees – which were very reasonable I might add – AND we will even settle the Walt Harris case while were at it.
{Editors note: Walt Harris is another whistleblower trial brought on by a former Kilpatrick detail officer}
“Now those “messages” you have will be of interest – it is of course contingent that we have those items back – wouldn’t you agree?”
The Plaintiffs Lawyer says,
“Yeah whateva’ Just CUT THE DAMN CHECK!!!!!”
(script over)
The Mayor comes out the next day and states after consulting with church leaders, the city council and business leaders he “decides” to settle the case which ranks up there with the biggest piece of bull%^^ bamboozling that I’ve ever seen.
The “secret” agreement was put in place in effect to hide the evidence and Kwame thought that this was a closed case.
But then he got busted anyway. (oops!)
Based on the testimony in the trial and the questions Stefani asked, I have to surmise that he knew of the relationship between Beatty and Kilpatrick and was waiting on evidence to cooberate this theory. Gary Brown on the stand said that he was fired as a result of Kilpatrick and Beatty possibly exposing their relationship. To make the proof to the jury the questions had to be placed on record so just in case they lied and he obtained information refuting their testimony either during or after the trial he had the smoking gun to appeal.
But I don’t think that he expected the text messages to be so clear and compelling that they proved his hypothesis and then some. He won the case without them and Kwame is still going down. Must be Christmas everyday in the Stefani household.
But the smoking gun is soon to follow. There is something buried in that secret agreement that the city is trying so hard to keep from the public. If you think what that might be submit it to my poll.
Now on a personal note, folks who know me love the blog and ask why do I do it? Well, quite frankly – minus my personal commentary I wanted to tell the truth of what’s going on here in city government. I strongly feel that this information benefits any Detroiters – white or black with truly understanding the culture we live in and how a populace can be constantly manipulated and misinformed. This saga is a classic example of when a constituency absent of accountability and ethics lets those within destroy the core of an existence that was supposed to be based on moral impetus and consciousness. The esteemed Judge Damon Keith stated “Democracy ceases behind closed doors” and that is precisely what happened here. But what really bothers me is the volume of deceit and lies brought on by the Mayor. He’s a smart man who has been playing the city and Detroiters are either too incompetent or blind to care.
As a Detroiter it’s my responsibility to change or modify some minds by exposing the truth hoping that the end result will be us as people expecting more from elected officials and not expecting less. Perhaps this scandal had to happen to wake people up. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again. If you know better you will do better.
Stay tuned for the next segment of Kwame Exposed!!
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4 comments:
Is Carlita involved in this in any way? I have heard that she walked into the party. Also I have heard that the people who work at the Free Press have been getting death threats. It would not surprise me, but I hate to think that Kwame and his people would be that dumb. If the newest tapes are released, and show proof of a party that Mike Cox said did not happen, will he has to resign also? And one more thing, does the "Kwame power machine" extend far enough to influence the Court of Appeals? It seems as if so many people could be affected by bad information coming out that there might be a good chance that one of them would have enough power to affect the ruling of the Court of Appeals.
What I “heard” is that she assaulted the dancer – Tamara Greene who was subsequently murdered. The woman was rushed to an area hospital but the records miraculously vanished.
Mike Cox wouldn’t be implicated as he can just say he didn’t discover the evidence. Unless he’s found culpable in the cover up he’s safe. Elected officials as you have probably noticed are difficult to get out of office.
Court of Appeals? Who Knows? Sharon McPhail had some unflattering things to say on Flashpoint – a local news program about the attending Judge Columbo’s ruling which I would suspect peeved off the legal community including Judges who watch the show so let’s hope that an impartial group presides over the appeals process.
Time for the "Big K" to resign and if he doesn't want to co-operate this way, then it is RE-CALL Time ! Yes, re-call and it would be the way to get this clown out of office to save the City future litigation expenses. Let him pay for his "wrongs" with his own money.
To the extent at which the mayor is trying to cover this thing up, lets me know that it's bigger than he is.It's more than perjury, and definately not about his affair with Beatty.I think this thing touches a lot of people in various areas of influence and political office(not just the city of Detroit).Black people please, stop and think for yourselves, it ain't the white man doing nothing to the mayor.Understand, the job of the press is to tell a true story (even if you don't like it). Members of the press have gone to jail to protect their sources,so let's just let that one go.Look at the evidence presented, look at the mayor's past and recent "mistakes" and you can come to a reasonable conclusion that there is something "big" to hide.As my moma says, "it don't pass the smell test."To whatever degree he says these documents are "private" that goes out the window when you make deals in your personal name AND THE CITY.Look at that published confidentiality agreement(this is a smoking gun too).The mayor argues the agreement was personal when in fact the agreement defines the parties to the agreement as Kwamee Kilpatrick and "the City of Detroit", Christine Beatty and Michael Stefani. Notice there was no one who signed on behalf of the City. If this thing was personal why was the city included as a party to the agreement. W-A-A-K-E UP, W-A-K-E UP
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