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Barbara McQuade Kwame Kilpatrick was released early from prison in January by President Trump not because of the merits of the case, but due to his connections, says former Detroit U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, whose office prosecuted the former mayor. It seemed that President Trump had a propensity to grant clemency to those who are well-connected, as opposed to those who are most deserving, McQuade says on a podcast, The Craig Fahle Show on Deadline Detroit. So, for example, Kwame Kilpatrick ended up serving seven years of a 28-year sentence. Meanwhile, his co-defendant Bobby Ferguson, whose conduct at trial, I believe was less egregious, and that was reflected in his sentence of 21 years, three-quarters of the sentence that Kwame Kilpatrick got he didn t get any clemency from President Trump.
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Detroit Federal prosecutors Monday fought the release of imprisoned contractor Bobby Ferguson, calling him a tyrant and saying he should spend the next 10 years behind bars for teaming with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to extort businessmen and corrupt city government.
Prosecutors filed a 33-page response to a request for compassionate release by Ferguson, who last month argued President Donald Trump created a sentencing disparity in January by commuting Kilpatrick s 28-year prison sentence for racketeering conspiracy. Ferguson s 21-year sentence was not commuted, and he remains incarcerated in a low-security federal prison in eastern Ohio.
Ferguson s request threatens to shorten one of the longest sentences for public corruption in U.S. history and alter punishment for participating in a racketeering conspiracy that helped push Detroit to the brink of bankruptcy. He was convicted of nine charges, including racketeering conspiracy, bribery and extortion in March 201
Kilpatrick was originally sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for a racketeering scandal that destroyed his political career and took him out of office. Ferguson got 22 years for his part in it, while others got lesser sentences. He had appealed before but did not win.
They were convicted of running a criminal enterprise from the mayor’s office in Detroit through corrupted contracts, steering city contracts toward Ferguson, and intimidating other contractors. His defense at the time argued that Ferguson’s business was honest and Kilpatrick had nothing to do with the awarding of contracts.
Kilpatrick served seven years before his sentence was commuted. That came after a lengthy campaign to get him freed from many in Detroit who felt his sentence was too harsh.