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Trump
commutes
sentence
of
ex-Detroit
Mayor
Kwame
Kilpatrick
apnews.com
DETROIT
-
President
Donald
Trump
has
commuted
the
prison
sentence
of
former
Detroit
Mayor
Kwame
Kilpatrick,
who has
served
about
seven
years of
a
28-year
sentence
for
corruption.
The
announcement
Wednesday
morning
was part
of a
flurry
of
clemency
action
in the
final
hours of
Trump’s
White
House
term
that
benefited
more
than 140
people,
including
rap
performers,
ex-members
of
Congress
and
other
allies
of Trump
and his
family.
A
White
House
statement
said
that
prominent
members
of the
Detroit
community
had
supported
Kilpatrick’s
commutation
and it
noted:
“During
his
incarceration,
Mr.
Kilpatrick
has
taught
public
speaking
classes
and has
led
Bible
Study
groups
with his
fellow
inmates.”
Kilpatrick
also had
asked
for
Trump’s
help to
get out
of
prison.
The
former
Democratic
mayor
was
convicted
in 2013
of
racketeering
conspiracy,
fraud,
extortion
and tax
crimes.
The
government
called
it the
“Kilpatrick
enterprise,”
a
yearslong
scheme
to shake
down
contractors
and
reward
allies.
Kilpatrick’s
lawyers
had
asked
for a
15-year
sentence.
But U.S.
District
Judge
Nancy
Edmunds
agreed
with
prosecutors
and
ordered
an
extraordinary
28-year
term.
In
May,
Kilpatrick
was
turned
down for
home
confinement
during
the
coronavirus
pandemic.
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