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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agrees to plead guilty, resign

By Associated Press
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - Updated 77d 19h ago

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges today in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation’s 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fined $1 million.

"I lied under oath," Kilpatrick said in court.

 
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stands with his attorney and takes his oath in Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit today.

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