{"id":14540,"date":"2012-05-14T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2012-05-14T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:00:17","slug":"kwame-kilpatrick-ex-detroit-mayor-sued-by-sec-for-influence-peddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14540","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Kilpatrick, Ex-Detroit Mayor, Sued By SEC For Influence Peddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 &#8212; Former Detroit Mayor<strong> Kwame Kilpatrick<\/strong> is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city&#8217;s public-employee pension funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission says <strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> and ex-city treasurer<strong> Jeffrey Beasley<\/strong> received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. The SEC says that was in exchange for getting the city&#8217;s pension fund to make an investment favoring the firm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> and <strong>Beasley<\/strong> violated federal securities laws, the SEC alleged in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> says he&#8217;s innocent of these charges and separate criminal charges brought previous by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 &#8212; Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city&#8217;s public-employee pension funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission says Kilpatrick and ex-city treasurer Jeffrey Beasley received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. The SEC says that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}