Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today that the jailing of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is another stunning blow to Detroit since the text message scandal broke in February.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said there needs to be an immediate answer as to who's in charge because there is no deputy mayor. Kilpatrick would need to file paperwork with the city clerk's office designating an acting mayor.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. called Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's run-in with two law enforcement officers "another blow to the city's image" today and repeated his call for Kilpatrick to resign.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today that the council has no choice — even as a wide-ranging corruption scandal unfolds — but to move forward with city business.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today that the council has no choice — even as a wide-ranging corruption scandal unfolds — but to move forward with city business.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today that the council has no choice — even as a wide-ranging corruption scandal unfolds — but to move forward with city business.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Detroit City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel said today that she has talked to the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office about its probe into possible wrongdoing in a contract approved by the City Council for a sludge recycling company.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Detroit City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel said today that she asked her attorney to contact the federal government about its probe into possible wrongdoing in a contract approved by the council for a sludge recycling company.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
The process launched by the Detroit City Council to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office should continue despite the federal probe into the council's approval of a controversial sludge recycling contract, Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said Monday.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
The process launched by the Detroit City Council to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office should continue despite the budding scandal over possible bribes in the council's approval of a controversial sludge recycling contract, Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
The process launched by the Detroit City Council to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office should continue despite the budding scandal over possible bribes in the council's approval of a controversial sludge recycling contract, Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. said today.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
UPDATED AT 4:20 P.M.: Two Detroit City Council members asked Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. to explain at today's meeting as much as he could about the FBI's investigation into his former chief of staff, who was caught on surveillance footage accepting cash related to a proposed city contract.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
UPDATED AT 4:20 P.M.: Two Detroit City Council members asked Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. to explain at today's meeting as much as he could about the FBI's investigation into his former chief of staff, who was caught on surveillance footage accepting cash related to a proposed city contract.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
... from the city's sewage treatment plant.John Clark. The former chief of staff for council President Ken Cockrel Jr. resigned in June after the FBI played a surveillance video allegedly showing Clark accepting $2,000 in cash on two occasions this year.Efstathios (Lou) Pavledes. The former director of Cobo Center pleaded guilty this month to making structured financial transactions to conceal...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
... to pick up that ball and do what she chooses to do with it," said City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr.Monday's ruling should make it politically more palatable for Granholm to remove Kilpatrick because local removal efforts have been sidelined or are on hold indefinitely, said Coit Cook Ford III, a Detroit political consultant."It is probably as offensive, if not more so, for the majority...
