BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Kwame KIlpatrick Found Guilty of Multiple Corruption Counts

March 11, 2013 Subscribe · Forward GUILTY Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was found guilty of multiple counts of racketeering and extortion, a jury decided Monday. Kilpatrick was convicted of a multitude of charges, including racketeering, extortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false tax returns. Both Kilpatrick and contractor Bobby Ferguson were found guilty on most counts. Kilpatrick's 71-year-old father, Bernard Kilpatrick, was only found guilty of one tax count. Jurors deliberated for 15 days before announcing that they were ready to vote on a verdict. The 12 members of this jury have spent 79 hours total deliberating all the details from the five-month trial. Judge Nancy Edmunds thanked the 12 members of the jury before reading the verdict, saying, "These jurors did an extraordinary job." According to WXYZ, some jurors have expressed an interest in talking to the media and will address reporters soon. This is a developing story..  Continue reading... Zach Braff Shares Feelings For Detroit L. Brooks Patterson Defends Bing That Wasn't Just An Ordinary Traffic Jam Where To Celebrate The St. Patrick's Day Parade LOOK: Before It Was Abandoned.. Man Charged In Gruesome Triple Murder Man Charged In Gruesome Triple Murder LOOK: Stunning Photographs Of Detroit, Then And Now Two Detroit Pop-Ups Team Up For Sunday Brunch Man Charged In Gruesome Triple Murder Michigan Gets 'F' In Corruption MATTHEW BODE Condoms and the Cross When we offer safer sex kits, a wall comes down. Honesty for us means we need to distribute safer sex kits. It is time we loved people as much as our ideologies. Continue reading... NANCY KOTTING The Power of Ruin: Detroit and the Artistic Mind Detroit is functioning, excelling and overachieving in ways that do not have precedent anywhere else on Earth, and therefore it is profoundly difficult to recognize for those stuck in old paradigms, dreaming of resurrection and emerald cities. Continue reading... RUSSELL SIMMONS No Shame: The NRA Shoots Multiple Rounds of Fear Into the Black Community With smokescreens and a barrage of bullets, the NRA is intentionally playing into the fears of a very few people. To create more hysteria and confusion about our relationship with our government is what the NRA would like to do. Continue reading... LAURA BARRETT Sick of the Sequester? Learn From Michigan Organizers The answer for Congress and the stalled action on the sequester? Michigan has some winning ideas. Continue reading... BRIAN STONE March to Equality: Michigan Marriage Equality in 2014? As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War, "Know when to fight and when not to." This is what marriage-equality supporters in Michigan must consider. The ultimate question is about terrain: to fight in 2014 or in 2016? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.