*Detroit’s former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit business leaders and an aggressive media capitalized on a sex and perjury scandal to send him from leading one of America’s largest cities to a prison cell, reports the Associated Press.
The former politician bills “Surrendered! The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick,” due Aug. 1, as the true tale of his saga. While he takes responsibility for an affair with an aide and lies he told during a civil trial, he also blames plenty of others for his downfall.
“When I perjured myself, I gave my enemies a lane. And they turned that lane into a highway,” Kilpatrick writes, according to an advance copy obtained by The Associated Press. “My intent entering office was to empower Detroiters, and my actions heading into my second term suggested that we had the ability to do it. And that threatened too many people’s bottom line. Their bottom lines for me, then, became simple. Get rid of me. And they’re not finished.”
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