Kwame Kilpatrick Text Scandal Redux: This Time With A Venable Partner
So it appears that Detroit’s ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was carrying on other text-based affairs. His exchange of over 14,000 steamy, adulterous texts with his chief of staff made headlines last year. Now, it’s been revealed that he exchanged some inappropriate SMSes with another woman: Sheryl Robinson Wood
At the time, Wood was at Kroll, a New York-based risk assessment firm, and had been appointed to monitor Detroit’s Police Department reforms. Now, she’s a partner at Venable in the firm’s Baltimore office.
From the Detroit Free Press:
Saul Green, Detroit’s group executive of public safety, briefed the media after a closed meeting with Detroit City Council after shocking revelations that Sheryl Robinson Wood, who resigned as monitor last week, had a relationship with Kilpatrick.Green said the Justice Department turned over text messages from fall of 2003 through January 2005 that show Kilpatrick and Wood met in Detroit, Washington and other cities.
“They showed contacts between the monitor and the former mayor that were inappropriate and also an exchange of information related to the litigation,” Green said. “It was a personal relationship in which they met, in which they went to dinner… not in an official time or context.”
There’s nothing better than a little litigation information exchange over drinks.
Wood resigned from the monitor position, but trouble looms for her. One tipster points out that a judge recently slammed the police department reforms as “grossly inadequate.” The monitoring of those grossly inadequate reforms cost Detroit over $13 million. Now the Justice Department is considering a criminal investigation of Sheryl Robinson Wood.
While monitor, Wood racked up some huge bills. She spent $189,000 monthly for herself, staff and overhead. Over six years, her bill was more than $13 million. And as mentioned earlier, the reforms were as disappointing as a weekend trip to Detroit.
From the Detroit Free Press:
[T]he judge overseeing Detroit Police Department reform efforts forced [Wood’s] ouster last week after being shown text messages that, the judge concluded, revealed Wood had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Kilpatrick, even as she was monitoring the city’s compliance with police reforms.Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning, a former federal prosecutor, said Wood could face an array of potential criminal and professional violations.
He said obstruction of justice, making false statements to the government and criminal contempt of court could be among issues the Justice Department is exploring.
The exact nature of Kilpatrick and Wood’s relationship is unclear at this point. Apparently, one of the inappropriate exchanges was Wood asking Kwame for Pistons tickets. Can you blame her? The Pistons did go all the way in 2004, after all.
Official: Texts show Kilpatrick, monitor met in various cities [Detroit Free Press]
Detroit police slow on reforms [Detroit Free Press]
Feds could go after ex-monitor of Detroit cops [Detroit Free Press]
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Who cares???
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Effects of overdosing on Tylenol: severe pain, eventually death.
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I always wonder what exactly constitutes an inappropriate text message. Positions? Descriptions of shame, guilt and smells? What exactly?
I always wonder what exactly constitutes an inappropriate text message. Positions? Descriptions of shame, guilt and smells? What exactly?
I'd hit it.
I'm Barack Obama?
When are people going to learn to do their dirty work over the phone instead of in writing?
(and if you suspect a tap, do it in person)
- Dirty Harry
3 -- I still don't buy it. You need to do some better convincing. Try going in the direction of taxing it. That might help.
Kash, please take this post down. It hurts Elie's AA argument.
PE is the poster child for abortion.
Women lawyers, stop killing us with this crap! Do your job, not your clients. Your fellow women lawyers would like to be taken seriously, not viewed as sex buddies, thank you very much. Control yourself, do what's right, and stop embarrassing the rest of us.
How does Kilpatrick keep getting so much action? He's not exactly the best looking guy I've ever seen.
That picture is racist and promotes negative racial stereotypes.
First inappropriate text message: MORNING WOOD!
"Further, Wood was throwing chairs with Ben Wallace's brother during the Pistons-Pacers brawl, otherwise known as the malice at the Palace. She hit Ron Artest in the eye."
She looks like a tranny.
$100 says that Sheryl Robinson Wood was hired at Venable (or, if you prefer, "joined the firm") for the primary purpose of improving the firm's "diversity" numbers.
So long as she can tick the appropriate or desired boxes, her ability as an attorney was not, is not, and never will be a concern.
I would hit it.
- Not Barack Obama
legalize cannabis and tax it. it will help the economy.
in fact, save the taxpayers billions (or trillions over time) by ending the "war on drugs". Let people be free... it will help the economy *greatly* by keeping money in the marketplace.
Kind of off-topic, but Saul Green is truly an excellent attorney/man. I am so glad he's trying to right the ship in Detroit. Go Blue!
I'd hit it... with a car.
Kash, why did you use a picture of Michelle Obama?
20 = ass clown
...Well, at least she wasn't soliciting sex from 15 year old girls....
I wonder of the woman in the picture ever bleacher her anus. Hmmmmm...
Bag drag, honey.
Oops, I meant bad drag
Detroit certainly got 13 million dollars in value for having monitors. Who is monitoring the monitors? Someone owes a refund.
Detroit certainly got 13 million dollars in value for having monitors. Who is monitoring the monitors? Someone owes a refund.
Why the gratuitous cheap shot? When is the last time you took a weekend trip to Michigan, Kash? We extended an invitation to the ATL staff last month, but no one accepted. You guys would love it here -- just ask Tiger Woods:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/pga/2009-07-29-buick-open-advance_N.htm
Kwame and his salami...she's kinda hot and not his wife...that is why he likes her. Are they still married after all this?
Yes to Pot.
All I have to do to get some is get in politics? hmmm
Thorn: If I had a girl like you, you wouldn't see me in church.
Wow, is all I can say. Now we know, thanks to this wonderful blog, what vicious, salacious things lawyers really mean to say behind closed doors.
What good is all this technology if we get busted every time we use it for its intended purpose - porn?!
I'm sorry, she's way too good looking for him.
Kash never really slammed my city of Detroit or MI. She's just breaking the news. It's a fact that Kwame is an adulterous thief, and possibly a murderer.
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/METRO/803140383
and he's a Dem, by the way.
Kwame = Third World potentate.
I sat next to Kwame in tax law at MSU. He always bragged about what a good football player he was at Florida A&M. Believe it or not, he was a decent guy back then. It's amazing what can happen to someone once they are elevated to a position of authority.
My guess is that he'll probably be indicted sometime in the near future. I can't help but wonder whether the Feds know what really happened to Strawberry.
From her bio:
Just prior to joining Venable, Ms. Robinson Wood practiced at another area firm, where she was co-chair of the White Collar and Government Enforcement Practice Group.
Awesome!
She crazy.
Kwame, and his mommy, used politics to enrich themselves. His behavior has always been sub-par.
Everyone knew he was dirty and a scum bag and frankly didn't care. No wonder Detroit is such a hole.
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Reading comprehension fail. "[T]he reforms were as disappointing as a weekend trip to Detroit" is plainly intended as an insult to Detroit.
New rule: Whenever any black person screws up, it not only casts a shadow of incompetence and criminality upon each one of them, but also visits shame on the foolish white person who has failed to address any of them without the deepest suspicion of criminality or incompetence. Exception, blacks who put 15 cent stickers on their law degrees and speak at the AEI every week or so.
Is anyone surprised by this turn of events.? C'mon now. Kwame is this generations's Marion Barry. Detroit is the craphole it is because of these clowns- Wood included. Memo to Wood- keep your legs closed and earn your way in the profession like other women did 30 years ago- by being the best. Not screwing some big jerk that has built up a cult of personality around himself. You are both pathetic. Venable is pathetic for hiring Wood; Detroit is pathetic for electing Kwame. And, talk about stereotypes, is there some reason Kwame needed a Cadillac Escalade as his car while in office? How about astripped down Suburban? Losers all.
45 - Not true Marion Barry was never convicted of corruption. Detroit is a craphole because they bowed to Big Auto even when it was not in the city's best interest.
42 - Thanks God politicians outside of Detroit are all honest and moral.
44 - Loser
Wait. Isn't her husband Wesley Woods - in Baltimore, running for political office?
This occurred over 4 1/2 years ago. The text messages were not sexually explicit.The week before the messages came out, she reported that the police were only 39% in compliance. No one said then that she was dragging this out. Also no fees went directly to her - she worked for companies. And, lastly, be careful not to judge too soon or draw conclusion based on half or inaccurate reporting.