How did these get released? state paid for phone or something?

i was unaware that the mayor of detroit had a robe and wizard hat.

Once they're subpoena'd and entered into evidence, they're public property.
This is part of a felony case. All evidence is normally made public.

The More You Know

zymosan: How did these get released? state paid for phone or something?

they were using city issued pagers. the text messages were discovered as part of some police officers investigations. they were later fired and filed a whistleblower suit against the city and KK. The city council rubberstamped agreed to pay the lawsuit, in fact they paid 2 million more than what the settlement agreed to. That's because the officers (through lawyers) threatened KK with the release the texts. The news paper wondered why the city council paid more than the agreed upon settlement amount and did some digging. They found out about the text messages.

/now you know the rest of the story
//TMYK

fap_fap_fap: zymosan: How did these get released? state paid for phone or something?

they were using city issued pagers. the text messages were discovered as part of some police officers investigations. they were later fired and filed a whistleblower suit against the city and KK. The city council rubberstamped agreed to pay the lawsuit, in fact they paid 2 million more than what the settlement agreed to. That's because the officers (through lawyers) threatened KK with the release the texts. The news paper wondered why the city council paid more than the agreed upon settlement amount and did some digging. They found out about the text messages.

/now you know the rest of the story
//TMYK

Was it city council or the media? I thought the News (or the Freep) started digging and city council thought that maybe they should to. Can't remember though. Not that it matters, as long as KK goes away.

/misses Archer

How has Detroit not run this idiot out of office already? That kind of stupid is hard to find.

the Freep started the digging if I remember correctly.

zymosan: How did these get released? state paid for phone or something?

This case will make a lot of people sweat.

The records were subpoena'd. Your spouse can't just call Sprint and ask for the records. This guy sounds like a steaming pile, but there are a whole lot of people in the world who wouldn't want made public pages and pages of inane "i heart u, lol" texts.


FTA: Kilpatrick said Tuesday evening that he questioned the authenticity of the messages and that their release did not provide "the smoking gun" many had expected.

sucky sucky?

zymosan: How did these get released? state paid for phone or something?

It's not as simple as "they subpoenaed them"

Here's a link to a article that explains how they got them. It's pretty wild. A lawyer in a civil trial got his hands on them. As part of the settlement he agreed to not disclose them. And in fact deleted them off his computer. But...
FTLA: A computer forensics expert hired by the City Council extracted the document from Stefani's computer.

Stefani had testified in a deposition he destroyed his copies of the motion and deleted it from his computer to comply with a secret side deal he struck with Kilpatrick and Beatty to keep the text messages under wrap as part of the $8.4 million lawsuit settlement.

Goodman said the document was found after a computer expert went over Stefani's computer. He notified the court of its existence on Monday afternoon.

OU812? LOLZ? WTF?

Unintentional main page scandalous affair trifecta completed FTW?

I hate him...

/Douche ruined my hometown, and people are dumb enough to vote him into office

The people of Detroit are the ones who need to be punished here, my favorite idiocy out of them was when it became obvious that public funds were being used to pay for her luxury SUV, something to the extent that they wouldn't begrudge him the honor of giving his mistress a proper ride.

The NSA wiretapping had nothing to do with this case.
We do not spy on political opponents

Interview with an ex-sex text worker

Also,

"shiat. I need it real bad."
"My nubian! I love you, you know that."
"Yep! Ditto! You know that?"
"More than you could ever know!"

awwwww!!!

Following in the great footsteps of 'Hizzoner' Mayor Coleman Young, Kwame has set the bar to an all new low ...
/Fat-assed honkey north of 8 Mile

NightOwl2255: Here's a link to a article that explains how they got them. It's pretty wild. A lawyer in a civil trial got his hands on them. As part of the settlement he agreed to not disclose them. And in fact deleted them off his computer. But...
FTLA: A computer forensics expert hired by the City Council extracted the......

He must not have cleared his Recycle Bin.

sullyman: How has Detroit not run this idiot out of office already? That kind of stupid is hard to find.

It's Detroit. I think the people of Detroit keep supporting him just to spite the suburbs. But they're really just spiting themselves.

/Detroit is a shiathole.
//In Detroit as I type this

NathanAllen: The people of Detroit are the ones who need to be punished here, my favorite idiocy out of them was when it became obvious that public funds were being used to pay for her luxury SUV, something to the extent that they wouldn't begrudge him the honor of giving his mistress a proper ride.

But it had spinnas yo!

Man, this is such a Kwamady

CB:"My baby wanted to see you. I was just trying to make it happen before we went to the dentist"
KK:"Come on Momma"
CB: "Thanks for that"
KK: I enjoy that. I might be their stepdad one day
CB:Why might? What happened to "not yet"?
KK: The "might is on you"
CB: LOL nubian, I already claimed it! KCK 2010. You told me that you would be my boyfriend everyday until I was your wife. Are you renigging?
KK:Hell no! Don't start none. Won't be none niggette! LOL


He later signs off with "My nubian! I love you, you know that."

Somewhere there is a sound clip of one of the local news anchors reading the text messages with some swanky porn music in the background.

In my previous post I was pulling directly from the released text messages replace the mods "nubian" with "ni**a"...


/thnx

buy it, support the D

FTFAThe sometimes graphic excerpts include the frequent use of the N-word, or derivatives of it, as a term of endearment.

I thought the NAACP killed and had a funeral for that word. Man they are going to be pissed. ZOMBIE SLUR is among us!!!!!

"Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings"

Huh huh huh, bully cummings, uh-huh-huh-huh. Cool.

These people are adults? In public life and type this kind of drivel to each other during a work day.

I mean didn't most of us stop this kind of dumbshiat in HS ?

Just recently moved North of 8 Mile. Whew.

State Receivership is the last hope for the shiatty of Detroit as the last remaining residents are just too dim to vote in anyone who can make a positive difference.

/honkey
//not so fat-assed

Typical Detroit resident:

"I love the hip-hop mayor. I'll contribute money to his legal defense fund (which means to his $700/hour criminal defense attorneys), because these charges are just haterz out to get him. Nevermind that the schools in Detroit are garbage, I can't afford to make rent payments or insure my car, and city services are dismal at best. I need to get the money to more important things - defending the hip hop mayor, who has been bleeding the city's budget dry over the last 6 years with cars for his wife and overtime for his 25 person "executive protection unit"(i.e. the mayor's thug buddies who need jobs)."

HONKEY

The woman that is the alleged mistress is unattractive.

I understand that he is the second highest-paid mayor in the country. Good to see that running the business of one of the most decayed, mismanaged cities in the western hemisphere leaves him with all this extra time on his hands. Thank goodness for knowledgeable voters!

Kwame Crookpatrick!

As if the City of Detroit, and the State of Michigan didn't already have enough going wrong for it. :(

todays detroit free press

the mayor's attorney is ACTUALLY USING THIS DEFENSE

"that strangers, or rogue employees, used his two-way and Beatty's to send thousands of bogus messages that neither knew existed or reported to communications provider SkyTel."

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/COL10/805010422

wow

WTFITS?

I don't even know where to begin on this one.

/hip-hop mayor?
//seriously - who the hell would attach themselves to this infectious and debilitating "culture"

sullyman: How has Detroit not run this idiot out of office already? That kind of stupid is hard to find.

See Washington D.C. for more of the same. Mayor Marion "Crackhead" Barry keeps getting re-elected to the city council.

BTW, for everyone that doesn't know, the Detroit City Council is who runs Detroit, and they are the biggest bunch of racist, biggoted crooks in the city. Kwame is just their mouth piece. It took them about a year to finally denounce him publicly over this, and only after he was in so deep that they could 'cut him loose' without it reflecting back on them. Kwame is a symptom of the problems in Detroit, not their cause.

That kind of stupid is hard to find.
Not around here, it ain't.

Thing about this I don't understand: Stefani (cop's att'y in the whistle-blower suit) had the messages & knew he could prove that KK was lying under oath. Does he bring that to the judge? No, he keeps them secret, and then threatens the mayor with making them public unless they pay him an additional $1M in fees, above what was requested in the settlement.

Seriously, how is this not blackmail? If I'd tried the same thing, I'd be in federal prison by now. They talk about him like a hero around here, when he was really just skimming an extra $1M off the city. He's as much of a crook as Kwame; even more pathetic since he was just doing it for the cash.

/I'll hit it

Detroit was ruined in the 60's. Then it was driven even further into the ground by his honor Coleman Young.

Vtimlin: Detroit was ruined in the 60's. Then it was driven even further into the ground by his honor Coleman Young.

UAW and Teamsters did their fair share to drive the manufacturing base away from the city, further contributing to its economic decline.

Generation_D: Once they're subpoena'd and entered into evidence, they're public property.
This is part of a felony case. All evidence is normally made public.

The More You Know

They were released to the newspapers based on a FOI request. However, the newspapers have to petition the court for a FOI request. The texts were released directly to the Detroit Free Press, not to the court. There is a question of how legal that act was.
It's unfortunate, as I'd like to see him nailed for all 8 felony counts. If they can get the texts thrown out, they'll likely only be able to get him for one felony.

Raskolnikov's Angst: WTFITS?

I don't even know where to begin on this one.

/hip-hop mayor?
//seriously - who the hell would attach themselves to this infectious and debilitating "culture"

Detroiters.
Have you been to Detroit?

drjekel_mrhyde: /I'll hit it

That's Juwanna Man.

What? No, Luffa? Falafel?

After reading the rest of the comments, a clarification. The Detroit Free Press has had the text messages since they were (possibly illegally) given them by the pager company. The recent uproar has been brought up because of a motion (that was never filed) that was retreived off of the cops lawyer's computer. Because the cop's lawyer had the motion, it was considered in the public domain. Since it was now a matter of public record anyway, the Free Press then released the rest of the text messages that they'd had for months.