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:
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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was among 70 people who had their prison sentences commuted by President Trump early Wednesday, just hours before the end of the president s term in office.
The commutation had been long sought by Kilpatrick, 50, who has served roughly seven years of a 28-year sentence for public corruption crimes on which he was convicted in 2013.
As a result of President Trump s decision, Kilpatrick will be released from prison early.
Seventy-three other people, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, received pardons from the president.