Former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.
The 43-year-old was elected Mayor of the city of Detroit at the age of 31, and his flashy attire, earring, and ever-present two-way pager garnered him the title, “The Hip-Hop Mayor.”
“He’s become the poster child of what went wrong with the city and why it went bankrupt,” Adolph Mongo, a political consultant who worked for Mr. Kilpatrick’s re-election campaign, told The New York Times. “It was a house of cards. Kilpatrick was the last card. He fell and it knocked everything down.”
Information from The New York Times contributed to this report.
