Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be freed after serving just seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for bribery and racketeering charges while holding public office.
Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 100 people.
On that lucky list is former Detroit Mayor
Kwame M. Kilpatrick, who had served a quarter of his prison sentence.
In a 2019 letter former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wrote to Trump, he praised the now-former president, saying that he has “shaken up the entire world,” calling that “a great thing to behold.” (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
“This commutation is strongly supported by prominent members of the Detroit community,
Alveda King, Alice Johnson, Diamond and Silk, Pastor Paula White, Peter Karmanos, Representative Sherry Gay-Dagnogo of the Michigan House of Representatives, Representative