Detroit: Feds say ex-Detroit police watchdog should pay
DETROIT (AP) — The federal government agrees that a lawyer hired to monitor changes at the Detroit police department should suffer a financial penalty because of her romantic relationship with ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The city wants to recoup $10 million paid to Sheryl Robinson Wood and the companies she worked for while serving as Detroit police monitor until July 2009.
But the U.S. Justice Department said Monday it would be unfair to penalize Wood’s staff. The government says Wood alone should be forced to repay some money.
Wood quit the monitor’s job after text messages revealed the relationship with Kilpatrick, who was mayor until he quit in scandal in 2008 and now is in prison. Wood hasn’t commented since her departure.
A decision on penalty rests with federal Judge Julian Abele Cook.
Pontiac: Man sentenced in Michigan club beating death
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit man who pleaded no contest to attempted manslaughter in a beating death at a Southfield jazz club has been sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison.
The Oakland Press of Pontiac says Eiland Johnson was sentenced Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court. A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
Authorities say Johnson bludgeoned 33-year-old Robert Alexander during a brawl in August 2009 that began as a fight over a woman and ended with two people stabbed and four others injured.
Alexander was celebrating his birthday. He died of head injuries.
Deandre Woolfolk pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and was sentenced Nov. 15 to 3-5 years.
