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Latest Trial Adds To Kilpatrick's Troubled Legacy

September 17, 2012

The city of Detroit is preparing for what could be the highest-profile public corruption trial in its history. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick – who once described himself as the nations’ first “hip hop” mayor – faces federal charges that he used city government to operate a widespread criminal enterprise.