Detroit Strip Clubs: Mike Cox campaign memo criticizes ’smear attacks’
July 27, 2010 at 10:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsSandler blasted Kay’s comments in the affidavit, details of which were first reported by WDIV-TV in Detroit on Monday.
“Yesterday, a five-time felon put out a string of lies based on supposed incidents from eight years ago,” he said in the memo. The campaign released state police records showing Kay had convictions for weapons, drug and arson charges.
During the investigation by the attorney general’s office, Cox issued 90 subpoenas, questioned nearly 120 witnesses and pored over 10,000 pages of documents; his investigation ended after five weeks.
At the time, Cox said his office only was looking into the alleged party and whether Kilpatrick’s police bodyguards had crashed city vehicles while driving drunk and received overtime for hours not worked. His office also investigated rumors that the mayor’s wife beat a stripper.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cox calls Manoogian party allegations ‘bold-faced lies’
July 27, 2010 at 10:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe affidavit was given to an attorney suing the city of Detroit over a stripper’s unsolved murder. The affidavit says guests at the party included Cox, who was then an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Cox described the claims as ludicrous.
Stu Sandler, Cox’s campaign manager, said in a statement that City Councilman Gary Brown, who won a whistle-blower suit against Kilpatrick after Brown lost his job for looking into the rumored Manoogian party and other allegations, described Kay’s allegations as “absolutely not” credible.
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Greene, a stripper who was linked to the rumored party at the mayor’s official residence in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city and Kilpatrick, alleging they obstructed her murder investigation for political reasons.
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Kay said he saw Cox receiving a “lap dance” from a stripper and saw the former mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, assault Greene at the party, punching her and striking her with a leg from a broken table.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cox calls Manoogian party allegations ‘bold-faced lies’
July 27, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe affidavit was given to an attorney suing the city of Detroit over a stripper’s unsolved murder. The affidavit says guests at the party included Cox, who was then an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Cox described the claims as ludicrous.
Stu Sandler, Cox’s campaign manager, said in a statement that City Councilman Gary Brown, who won a whistle-blower suit against Kilpatrick after Brown lost his job for looking into the rumored Manoogian party and other allegations, described Kay’s allegations as “absolutely not” credible.
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Greene, a stripper who was linked to the rumored party at the mayor’s official residence in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city and Kilpatrick, alleging they obstructed her murder investigation for political reasons.
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Kay said he saw Cox receiving a “lap dance” from a stripper and saw the former mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, assault Greene at the party, punching her and striking her with a leg from a broken table.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Man’s affidavit says he was at long-rumored Manoogian Mansion party
July 27, 2010 at 10:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit — A biker who claims to have helped provide security at a 2002 stripper party at Kwame Kilpatrick’s mayoral residence, the Manoogian Mansion, has provided a sworn affidavit to an attorney suing the city of Detroit over a stripper’s unsolved murder.
The affidavit says guests at the party included Attorney General Mike Cox, who was then an assistant prosecutor in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Spokesmen for the former mayor and for Cox describe the claims as ludicrous.
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Greene, a stripper who was linked to the rumored party at the mayor’s official residence in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city and Kilpatrick, alleging they obstructed her murder investigation for political reasons.
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Kay said he saw Cox receiving a “lap dance” from a stripper and saw the former mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, assault Greene at the party, punching her and striking her with a leg from a broken table.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Mike Cox denies attending rumored Manoogian Mansion party in wake of witness …
July 27, 2010 at 10:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsIn wake of witness affidavit, Mike Cox denies attending wild Manoogian party
Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:06 AM Updated: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 9:57 AM
With one week to go before Michigan’s gubernatorial primary, Attorney General Mike Cox finds himself again denying accusations he attended a long-rumored party thrown by then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion in 2002.
WDIV, the Detroit Free Press and Fox 2 report attorney Norman Yatooma has obtained a sworn affidavit from a motorcycle club member who says he worked security at the party and saw Cox receive a lap dance and Carlita Kilpatrick assault stripper Tamara “Strawberry” Greene.
Yatooma is representing Greene’s family in a civil suit against Kilpatrick and the City of Detroit, alleging local leaders conspired to block an investigation into her murder, which occurred several months after the rumored party.
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