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A relative escorted Kilpatrick from a Southern Michigan Prison facility in Jackson to a sport utility vehicle waiting outside. Kilpatrick smiled but did not address reporters as he climbed into the SUV, which headed toward the Detroit area under police escort.
In a statement issued ahead of his release, Kilpatrick thanked all those who prayed for him and said he would speak openly about his time behind bars after he has reunited with his family. He planned to rejoin his wife and three sons near Dallas, where his parole will be overseen by Texas authorities.
"Detroit, I will return to speak frankly with you about this experience because it has affected all of us," he said in the statement.
Before leaving the prison, Kilpatrick changed into his own clothing: jeans and a peach-colored shirt, state Corrections Department spokesman John Cordell said. Kilpatrick's brother-in-law, Daniel Ferguson, and a lawyer greeted the former mayor and walked him outside, Cordell said.
Cordell said Kilpatrick told them: "It's good to be out. I'm on my way."
The 41-year-old Kilpatrick was released on parole but still faces a federal corruption trial that could send him back to prison.
Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned from office as part of a plea deal in 2008. A judge found he had lied at a civil trial to cover up an extramarital affair with his chief of staff in a lawsuit that cost Detroit $8.4 million.
The former mayor was imprisoned in May 2010 for failing to disclose assets and surrender sufficient funds that could have reduced his $1 million restitution to the city. Kilpatrick still owes Detroit more than $800,000 and a judge recently ordered that all profits from his upcoming book be placed in escrow to help pay off the debt.
The Wayne County prosecutor's office opposed Kilpatrick's release.
His federal trial on fraud, tax crimes and a racketeering conspiracy is scheduled to start in September 2012. In an 89-page indictment filed in December, the government described a pay-to-play scheme in which Kilpatrick and his father, Bernard, took kickbacks and bribes to steer city business to certain contractors.
Both men have pleaded not guilty. Bernard Kilpatrick is not in custody.
People charged with felonies typically aren't granted parole but the U.S. attorney's office did not object to Kilpatrick's release.
The Democrat served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001 and was minority floor leader from 1998 to 2000. He was elected mayor of his hometown in 2001 and served from 2002 through his September 2008 resignation.
Kilpatrick spent 99 days in the Wayne County Jail and in early 2009 joined his family in a Dallas suburb where he worked as a salesman for Covisint, a subsidiary of Detroit-based software company Compuware Corp.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138918917/ex-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-leaves-prison?ft=1&f=1014
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August 2, 2011The Vice President Crossed the Line
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The bill passed by a vote of 269 to 161; it required only a simple majority to pass.
A loud round of applause broke out on the House floor as the votes came in — apparently prompted by the sudden appearance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who voted in favor of the bill.
The House last week approved Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the U.S. government's debt ceiling by a vote of 218 to 210. The Senate rejected that plan. The White House and congressional leaders agreed on a new plan late Sunday.
The bill now moves to the Senate, which isn't likely to vote on the measure until Tuesday, according to reports. Senate party leaders who negotiated the deal with the White House seem to have the votes to approve it, but there are also procedural hurdles that must be taken into account.
Here are the essential details of the plan:
Moments before the final vote on the bill, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to support it, despite admitting that she didn't like the bill's lack of revenue increases.
And Boehner urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the deal as well, saying earlier Monday that the legislation is a way to "solve this debt crisis and help get the American people back to work."
As Eyder wrote in a post earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office has released its "score" of the deal. In summary, the CBO said that the legislation's budget restraints would cut budget deficits by $917 billion between 2012 and 2021. And its spending cuts would reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion.
Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog has his own analysis of the bill. Silver says it's correct to see the outcome of spending cuts and no tax hikes as a "win" for Republicans. Then he goes a little deeper:
But given that Democrats were willing to accede to the constraints demanded by Republicans, they were able to exert a lot of control over the substance of the cuts. In particular, the first round of cuts will include $350 billion in defense savings, while the second round would include between $500 and $600 billion in defense cuts if no bipartisan agreement is reached.
We'll have more updates as things evolve. And on Tuesday's Morning Edition, you can hear coverage and analysis of the federal debt ceiling debate — and its resolution. In the meantime, you may want to distract yourself by hearing Carl '60 Cent' Kassell rap about the debt crisis. Here's a sample:
The credit rating agencies
Weren't feeling it at all
If we couldn't get a deal
Our rating would fall.
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