Detroit Mayor Faces New Lewd Text Charges

Kwame Kilpatrick Accused Of Exchanging Romantic Text Messages With Additional Women

(AP)  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now charged with exchanging romantic text messages with additional women in the scandal that has him fighting allegations that he lied under oath about an intimate relationship with his former chief of staff.

An investigator's report says the Wayne County prosecutor's office has determined that Kilpatrick sent and received text messages with "intimate or romantic content" to several women who were not his wife or former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.

The report says the office was able to locate and identify the women, but it does not list their names.

The allegations led the prosecutor's office to amend two current charges against the 38-year-old mayor. The amended complaint was signed by a district court magistrate and changes a misconduct-in-office charge and one of four perjury charges.

The misconduct-in-office charge alleges that Kilpatrick authorized the city to prevent the release of text messages containing intimate or romantic messages to women other than his wife or Beatty.

The amended perjury charge accuses Kilpatrick of lying under oath about romantic or sexual relationships with Beatty "and or other persons not his wife."

The charges against Beatty were not changed.

Kilpatrick's office did not return phone calls seeking comment on the amended charges. But a few hours before they were filed, Kilpatrick accused prosecutor Kym Worthy of a "personal vendetta."

"She has no case, and the city is tired of it," Kilpatrick said after an event promoting Labor Day activities in Detroit.

"It's a perversion of the entire system," the mayor said.

Worthy said in a statement that she would not respond to Kilpatrick's "personal attacks."

In January, excerpts of sexually explicit text messages were published by the Detroit Free Press that pointed to an extramarital relationship between Kilpatrick and Beatty. Those messages, left on Beatty's city-issued pager, contradicted testimony the two had given during a 2007 police whistle-blowers' trial.

Kilpatrick and Beatty were charged in March with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. Both deny the charges and face a preliminary examination in September.

[keithle1]

Who wants to live in Detroit now. Aren''t people leaving that city left & right?

[sparty088]

"Woody was right about ''''that state up north''''...aint nothin good ever come from there."

Yea you''re right. Let''s trash a whole state because of the actions of one man. The Arsenal of Democracy, Motown music and the heyday of American automotive manuifacturing were all horrible things. By the way "ain''t nothin good ever come from there"? Learn to put a coherent argument together if you want to bash my state.

[darnedsocks]

THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT!

[keithle1]

Detroit reminds me of Paris.

[keithle1]

Got to be a ladies man/playa. Look at me. I''m a stud. Spreading my love around. And I''m proud to say I never use a condom when I cheat on my wife.

[keithle1]

That''s his "I done messed up again" look.

[mercyme884]

are all the persons charged in this fiasco black or what?

[notopennshut]

This sleazebag should be thrown out and flushed down the sewer as fast as possible. He is solely responsible for bringing down a city that is already in a desperate situation. The only ones supporting him are those who have benefited from his corruption and will keep on supporting him for if he goes down, so will they!! Meanwhile the citizens of Detroit and also Michigan are suffering becauses of the situation he has wrought on them. How can we tolerate this kind of scum and allow him and his family, relatives and supporters to drain the rest of us of all that we have worked so hard for, is unacceptable. The sooner the citizens of Michigan, Detroit and suburbs understand this, the sooner we can hope to get our of misery. Why is no one courageous enough, including the governor, or able enough to end this tragedy is incomprehensible. What are we waiting for?? Something akin to "Dante''s inferno?" It is time then for all of us, ordinary citizens to stand up and insist that enough is enough. Let us cut out all the politicians and do what is right for us, our children and grandchildren. Let us not allow the Kilpatricks to live and suck on our tears, sweat and blood for the rest of their lives. Let us not help him destroy what was once a great city.