The saga involving Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is finally over. Under a new plea deal, Kilpatrick will plead guilty and resign.
Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty will plead guilty to 2 felonious accounts, over an affair with Beatty and the firing of a deputy police chief. They are charged with perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. On August 7, 2008, Kilpatrick became the first American mayor to be remanded in custody for violating the terms of his probation by traveling to Canada and not notifying the court which sentenced him for assaulting a police officer. This doesn't sound like a mayor. Kilpatrick seems like a street thug.
So, what can we learn from all this? How many politicians have been accused of having extramarital affairs since Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky in the '90s?
