Thursday, April 9, 2009

Kilpatrick paid lawyers $1M from election fund


Action could violate campaign finance laws


By M.L. ELRICK, JIM SCHAEFER and JOE SWICKARD
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
April 8, 2009

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick used his re-election fund to pay lawyers nearly $1 million for their ultimately futile efforts to keep him out of jail -- a move that possibly violates state campaign finance laws.

Kilpatrick’s lead attorney, James Thomas, defended tapping the campaign account but Maurice Kelman, a retired Wayne State University law professor, said it was improper. Kelman has been calling on Kilpatrick to disclose his spending.


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