DETROIT — At this point it would be hard to tarnish the reputation of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
But the feds heaped on some more serious allegations to his already pending public corruption charges.
The Detroit News reports that new court filings in fed court in Detroit allege that Kilpatrick took a $10,000 kickback in a restaurant bathroom and tried forcing a business to take in his father as a minority partner.
The allegations were included in an updated racketeering conspiracy indictment against Kilpatrick and three others.
The News reports that the allegation appears to rely on some information from the mayor’s ex-aide and good buddy Derrick Miller, who pleaded guilty in September and has been cooperating.
One allegation is that Miller hand-delivered Kilpatrick a $10,000 kickback inside a Detroit restaurant bathroom in fall 2007.
The News reported that the cash came from a developer who was seeking a loan from city pension funds for Asian Village, the defunct restaurant development.
The News reported that another new allegation was that “Kilpatrick allegedly tried to strong-arm a company in 2002 that wanted to open a House of Blues restaurant at Ford Field.
“During negotiations, according to the indictment, a city development official pressured a company official to hire the mayor’s father, Bernard Kilpatrick, as minority partner. The firm, identified as ‘Company F’ in the indictment, said no. So Kilpatrick withdrew the city’s support, according to the indictment.”
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