The federal government is seeking more than $35,000 in restitution it says the father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick still owes from a tax evasion conviction in the public corruption probe ...

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick remembered the Detroit Democrat as a trailblazer and the strong leader of her family during a ...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick served seven terms in Congress and nine terms in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Some have called it the "friends and family" plan and, on Thursday, federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick started outlining the money trail that started when ...

DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick, the youngest mayor in Detroit history, who became a devisive figure and ended up in trouble with the law time after time, was convicted by a Detroit federal jury today on ...

Detroit — Family and colleagues on Wednesday remembered former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick as fiercely devoted to her ...

DETROIT — The day After ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's attorney requested an extension to prepare for his client's Sept. 3 sentencing, federal Judge Nancy Edmunds called Kilpatrick and ...

DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick will face trial in Detroit. Judge Nancy G. Edmunds listened to about a half hour of testimony before deciding she would not allow a change of venue in the corruption case ...

DETROIT (AP) — A businessman who held contracts at Detroit’s convention center said Monday he was a “hostage” who felt compelled to pay thousands of dollars to then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his ...

The Huffington Post is reporting that a jury has found former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick guilty of multiple counts of racketeering and exortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire ...