{"id":7919,"date":"2011-06-27T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2011-06-27T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:50:27","slug":"former-detroit-mayor-to-be-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7919","title":{"rendered":"Former Detroit Mayor To Be Released  From Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor <strong>Kwame Kilpatrick<\/strong> from prison after more than a year behind bars for violating probation in a criminal case that forced him out of office in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> will be freed no earlier than July 24, said <strong>Russ Marlan<\/strong>, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick&#8217;s<\/strong> parole request had been on hold since late May when the board chairman said he wanted more time to understand the federal corruption charges pending against the ex-mayor. People charged with felonies typically aren&#8217;t granted parole.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the Wayne County prosecutor who had urged the parole board to keep <strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> in prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008 in a case that was tied to his cover up of an extramarital affair with his chief of staff. He was sent to prison in 2010 after a judge said he had misled authorities and failed to turn over certain assets toward his $1 million restitution to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kilpatrick<\/strong> faces a September 2012 trial on federal tax and fraud charges related to his time at city hall. His father, <strong>Bernard<\/strong>, and others are also part of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison after more than a year behind bars for violating probation in a criminal case that forced him out of office in 2008. Kilpatrick will be freed no earlier than July 24, said Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the [&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-7919","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\/7919","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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}