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Jan 21, 2021
DETROIT (AP) President Donald Trump on Wednesday cleared the way for the release of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served more than seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for a series of corruption crimes.
The announcement came in a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump’s White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rappers, former members of Congress and other Trump allies.
The White House said prominent members of the Detroit community had supported the 50-year-old Democrat’s commutation and noted: “During his incarceration, Mr. Kilpatrick has taught public speaking classes and has led Bible Study groups with his fellow inmates.”
DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served more than seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for corruption crimes, was released from federal prison Wednesday after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Associated Press.The announcement came in a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump s White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rappers, former members of Congress and other Trump
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When the city of Detroit declared bankruptcy in 2013, Kilpatrick’s mayorship was held partly responsible.
“It was citizens of Detroit that suffered when they handed over their hard-earned tax dollars to the city,” Judge Nancy Edmunds said during Kilpatrick’s sentencing, according to the MinnPost.
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Kilpatrick, a lifelong Democrat, wrote Trump a letter of support in 2019.
“I first want to congratulate you for the overwhelming and stunning victories of your Presidential campaign, and also the unprecedented success of your first two years in office,” he wrote, according to Deadline Detroit.
Needless to say, his early release, courtesy of DJT, is getting a lot of attention because of the fact that “prominent members of the Detroit community,” Diamond & Silk convinced Trump to do so: