Just Keeps Getting Better and Better [[Kilpatrick seeks payment delay)

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Former mayor claims plea deal allows him to halt restitution payments until 2013

Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News

Detroit -- Kwame Kilpatrick wants to make no monthly payments for five years.
That was the deal, claims the lawyer for the ousted former mayor. Kilpatrick agreed to pay $1 million restitution and wants to be left alone until the bill comes due Oct. 28, 2013.


"We have objected to the monthly amount because it violates the original plea agreement," Kilpatrick's lawyer Michael Alan Schwartz said Friday....


"I've heard that people don't like the way he's living. He's got a nice house and a nice car," Schwartz said. "It comes down to how people want the man to suffer, and we don't see that happening. That's not how the justice system is supposed to work...."


"The deal was the deal whether you like it or not," Schwartz said. "When you give your word that is your bond. Mr. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty expecting the deal was as it was presented...."


Schwartz said Kilpatrick has yet to close any sales so he is obligated to repay his advances.