Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced on Thursday to 28 years in prison following his conviction on two dozen charges including racketeering, bribery and extortion from a conspiracy, which prosecutors said had worsened the city's financial crisis. Kilpatrick, 43, once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, received one of the longest corruption sentences ever handed to a major U.S. politician and one twice that of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who is serving a 14-year sentence. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said Kilpatrick headed a conspiracy that spent millions of taxpayer dollars. The sentence was intended to send a message that corruption would not be tolerated, she said. "That way of business is over," Edmunds said. "We're done." Read more http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/10/kwame-kilpatrick-ex-detroit-mayor-sentenced-to-28-years
