Judge orders Kwame Kilpatrick crony Bobby Ferguson released from prison 10 years early
Bobby Ferguson
Bobby Ferguson, the Detroit contractor tied to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's corruption scandal, was ordered Thursday to be released from prison nearly a decade before the end of his sentence.
The order to free Ferguson from the Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, was made by Judge Nancy Edmunds of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under the compassionate release provision. It comes about four months after then-President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of the disgraced former mayor.
Ferguson's family and supporters had been rallying for his release, arguing Ferguson shouldn't face a harsher punishment than his good friend Kilpatrick, who they say orchestrated the crimes. But prosecutors said he should remain in prison for ripping off the city with corrupt contracts.