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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 17th, 2010 5:46 am by HL
Judge Rules Trial Of Alleged AL Bingo Bribers Can Proceed
All 11 defendants in a massive corruption case out of Alabama that has snared several politicians and lobbyists appeared in federal court on Tuesday, where a judge denied a motion of several of the defendants to delay the April trial because their lawyers didn’t have enough time to prepare.
‘Lol!’ How Kwame Kilpatrick Allegedly Planned Mass Extortion
We just got through the 38-count federal indictment against former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a handful of his cohorts, alleging that the group operated as a criminal organization that extorted tens of millions of dollars from city contractors. The indictment — against Kilpatrick, his father, a city contractor named Bobby Ferguson and two former city officials — is full of bits of conversations between the men, presumably via text message and punctuated with “Lol”s and “COOL!”s.