Kilpatrick Chooses To Not Pay Court Ordered Fines

Kilpatrick, Compuware subpoenaed

Worthy alleges failure to meet probation terms

Subpoenas were issued Friday ordering former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his employer, Compuware, to turn over records prosecutors believe will show he violated probation and hid his true financial worth.

Why would Compuware employ a known criminal in such a high paying position?

Orders to immediately produce documents concerning Kilpatrick's pay and assets were authorized by Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner at the request of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

Kilpatrick is expected to return from his Texas home next month to attend an Oct. 28 hearing before Groner on the prosecutor's allegations that Kilpatrick has "flagrantly" and "willfully" failed to meet terms of his probation stemming from guilty pleas to felony assault and obstruction of justice charges he entered last year in the text message scandal.

A second subpoena issued to Compuware demands "all payroll records, records of disbursements, including but not limited to payroll records, commission payments and or advances, car allowances, travel allowances, loans, gifts and or any other benefits and or payments made to Kwame Kilpatrick or any third party on his behalf for January 2009 to present."

Kilpatrick's lawyer, Michael Alan Schwartz, said earlier this week his client denies violating probation. Schwartz said he's not sure Worthy ever presented Kilpatrick with documents needed to transfer his bond and pension assets.

Alan PULLEEZE! Kim Worthy's office and legal administrative efforts have been nothing short of spectacularly pristine. What a pathetic excuse, is that what all those years of legal eduction get you in terms of legal expertise?...Shoot I could do that.

Schwartz labeled the coming hearing in Groner's court as "a public relations event."

Alan you just tied your wagon to Detroit's most famous criminal..probably not your best move.

Schwartz wasn't available for comment Friday. Representatives for Compuware could not be reached for comment.

Of course not, the parties most humilted by events tend to shy aware from the public eye.

Groner in March set a payment schedule based on 30 percent of Kilpatrick's monthly income.

Payments were set at $6,000 per month because the judge was told Kilpatrick would earn a base salary of $120,000, plus advances that doubled his monthly income during the first six months he worked as a salesman in Texas for Compuware subsidiary Covisint.

As part of his plea-bargain agreement, which averted a trial on multiple felony charges, Kilpatrick agreed to resign his office, serve jail time, give up his law license, not run for office during five years of probation and pay the city $1 million in restitution.

Pay stubs obtained by The Detroit News show Kilpatrick was paid $57,000 during his first six months as a salesman for Covisint. Kilpatrick also took $60,000 in advances on expected bonuses and commissions.

I know this much, I won't be buying any Covisint or Compuware products anytime soon.

This guy ruins Detroit, lives in a Texas mansion in a gated community, gets a cushy job at a "Detroit based" business, drives a Escalade and STILL tries to get out of what payments the court ordered him to provide.

How fast would you or I be in jail if we pulled this crap?

...and people say there isn't any class preferential treatment in this country....yeah right.

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The RIAA Will Destroy You If You Get In The Way.

A woman who won a retrial after a US$220,000 verdict against her for sharing music files has now been ordered to pay $1.92 million by a jury in Minnesota.

In 2007, when she lost the original suit, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was one of the first people to receive a guilty verdict in a case backed by the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed more than 20,000 lawsuits against people in a bid to stop online music trading and copyright infringement.

On Thursday, a jury ordered her to pay $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she is accused of illegally trading over the Kazaa Internet service. The jury could have ordered her to pay between $750 and $150,000 per song.

In a statement, the RIAA said it was pleased that the jury found the defendant liable and that it continues to be willing to settle the case.

Thomas' case has been closely followed, in part because she was a single parent of two children and did not appear to be trading massive volumes of music.

After her case went to court, the recording industry late last year said it would no longer pursue individuals who trade in small numbers of songs. Instead it pledged to first notify ISPs of people who trade large volumes of songs and ask for the ISPs' help in shutting down the activity.

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The RIAA tells the U.S. to suck it's wiener...and they do.


Here is Mr. Rock and Roll himself Cary Sherman.

He is the HNIC at the RIAA.

What did he win aside from destroying some woman's life?

What did he spend to assure he won the lawsuit which I have absolutely no doubt will never, ever be paid?

Like the woman has $1.92 Million laying around.

Cary wasn't after money of course, he has gold coins coming out of his ass when he farts I am sure.

He was after precedent...which he got.

Now your ALL potential for being sued out of existence.

Funny part is I have been taking CD's out of my local library, ripping them, putting them on my MP3 and digging them.

So in essence the state is now sharing music illegally, for free.

No money to the record company.

No money to the artists.

No money to anyone.

It's like freaking Heaven on Earth and it's all illegal apparently.

I don't know what to think anymore.

Cary could have thrown that money at a charity, a college fund, any number of great causes would have loved to have what Cary Sherman threw at suing Jammie Thomas.

And WTF? Between $750.00 and $150,000.00 per song?

Have you ever heard of a unarmed robber taking $100 from the local 7-Eleven, being caught and having to pay $15,000,000.00 in restitution?

What kind of retarded jury did the prosecution manage to get on board with this?


I guess I shouldn't expect much more from Minnesota, aside from a little cousin on cousin love.

Since when did the music industry get into the business of destroying lives?

It's music!

It's not drugs, or military secrets, or some new fusion energy the oil companies want to keep under wraps.

It's just music and mostly bad music at that.

It's frigging Brittany Spears bullshit, lame ass, over produced, crap.

Here is the precedent Cary Sherman managed to set.

"Fuck with the RIAA and we will destroy you financially."

Who the hell granted the RIAA this kind of power?

Unfortunately for Cary, the Internet still exists.

I listen to unsigned musicians from their own grass roots web sites via pod casts.

I haven't bought a new CD now in about 3 years.

Used or from the library or the web...that's what Cary has taught me.

"Don't pay the bully, just walk around the block the other way."



Cary Sherman and the RIAA have convinced me to never again pay for a CD in the store from the manufacturer.

I have written this code of ethics for those of us to whom the RIAA appear repugnant.

Ethics Cary...sound out the word...you might have heard it before...I bet they taught it at Cornell University and Harvard Law School during your time there.

They must be so proud of all you have accomplished...

I digress....

I call it the;

"Civil Disobedience in regards to the RIAA Code of Ethics"

1) I will only buy used CDs from independent merchants.

2) I will borrow CDs on loan from my local library thereby involving the state and local authorities in any legal proceedings occurring from utilizing legal services paid for by my tax dollars.

3) I will donate my CDs to my local library after my use OR I will resell them to independent merchants directly.

4) I will freely loan or give my CDs to friends, family, coworkers or associates whom may want them for their personal use.

5) I will never again buy a new CD that is in any way affiliated or complies with the RIAA.

6) I will utilize the vast resources on the web for new and original music I never heard before.

7) I will shut off my radio or change my listening habits as broadcasters adhere to strictly enforced play list rotations of what they deem of worth to me.

8) I will openly speak and promote the music I discover without RIAA regulation involvement to my friends, family, coworkers and associates.

9) I will avoid artist's creative works when said artists comply or work in conjunction with the RIAA in any way, shape or form. ( This in particular avoids having substandard "talent" shoved down our collective throats by the record industry, ala Lady GaGa)

10) I will practice my freedom of choice backed by the power of not spending my money in any direction the RIAA directly or indirectly profits from.




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JoAnn Watson Steals From Detroiters Then Laughs

Joann Watson Steals From Detroit Then Laughs

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"If anyone here in this circle received a bill and you've argued to pay more, just raise your hand."

-- Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson at a weekend news conference where she defended her failure to point out that the city had erroneously taxed her two-story home as a vacant lot for 10 years. Her request for a show of hands prompted laughter from her supporters.


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Congratulations Detroit, you f-d yourselves up the ass again.

Keep voting scum like this into City Council and this is what you get.

Theft from the taxpayer at the highest levels of Detroit government.

Theft in in this amount anywhere else in the United States is a felony, not in Detroit.

This was not theft from Detroit and Detroiters by "the man", effects from white flight, envious scheming from the burbs...this is theft from your elected officials...read that again YOUR ELECTED officials.

Everyone around the metro Detroit area is decrying the impending seizure by the state of Michigan of the Detroit Public School system because Detroit government can't even supply toilet paper to it's students and everyone in Detroit is also lamenting the soon to be seizure of COBO Hall and the Detroit Auto Show because of mis-management and back at Detroit City Council its business as usual where over the past decade this old bag of ethics, JoAnn Watson is stealing right from your pocket Detroit..... go ahead...vote her in again, and again, and again.

Your city is in ruins around your feet from your elected officials theft, mis-managment and ineptness and your too stupid to realize the truth of it...that you could have voted them out decades ago.

JoAnn Watson, by stealing from YOU taxpayer, has managed to get her garbage picked up for $68 dollars a year in taxes among any other Detroit municipal services supplied and paid for by the taxpayers that she SELF ADMITTEDLY was aware of yet failed to come clean.

JoAnn's neighbors are paying upwards of $2500 a year in taxes, I wonder which way they will vote next election?

ON A LIGHTER NOTE: I love the irony that the guy in the photo above has a stop evictions and foreclosures shirt on behind JoAnn, shit if other Detroiters didn't have to pay taxes on their property they would never even need a rally for aid, just throw some of the money you stole back at these people's delinquent taxes JoJo, you could actually help Detroit and Detroiters by just being honest.

Imagine that.



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Why GM Is UnAmerican And I Buy A Toyota

I get a lot of ribbing, most light hearted but at other times threatening, about my choice to own and drive a Toyota.

Well here is why.

A) 3 recalls on the one new Ford I ever owned, AFTER repairs I made at my cost totaling to about 1/3 the price of the total vehicle because of poor, untested design and overall crappy manufacture.

B) The attempt by American automakers to put the spin of patriotism on their manufacture and my purchase.

C) The bureaucratic corruption and sense of self entitlement of auto worker unions.

And now....Ladies and Gentlemen I give you GM...yes the GM that was bailed out by your money...my money...your neighbors money...your employers money...

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GM ‘Likely’ to Build in China as U.S. Factories Close

General Motors Corp., shuttering U.S. plants in a bid to avoid bankruptcy, is “likely” to build a new factory in China on surging demand.

“Operations in China are profitable and in the future China can finance its own growth,” Nick Reilly, the company’s Asia-Pacific president, said at the Shanghai auto show today. He didn’t give a time frame for the new plant.

GM, the biggest overseas automaker in China, boosted sales in the country 38 percent last month as government stimulus measures spurred demand for its minivans. By contrast, the company’s U.S. sales slumped 45 percent on the recession, as it battles to convince the U.S. government that it’s still viable.

The automaker has also delayed expansion of an Indian plant for as long as two years as sales growth there has slowed, Reilly said. The company will seek to turn around sales in Australia and South Korea, he added.

GM is basing its business planning in Asia on the assumption that it will have to finance projects locally, insulating it from possible problems in the U.S., Reilly said.

“We won’t get money out of the U.S. into China,” Reilly said. Still, “we don’t need to because we have a very good balance sheet.”

China Sales

The Detroit-based car maker said April 9 it expects to double annual sales in China to more than 2 million vehicles over the next five years, with more than 30 new and upgraded models being introduced in that span.

GM makes vehicles in China through two ventures, both of which are backed by SAIC Motor Corp. Reilly said he wouldn’t comment on the possibility of Chinese automakers buying GM brands.

GM is trying to prove it’s viable in order to keep $13.4 billion in U.S. federal loans. The company is seeking to shed some brands, cut 47,000 jobs worldwide this year and close five assembly plants as it faces a June 1 deadline to avoid a U.S. government-backed bankruptcy.

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GM: 1,600 will lose jobs in next few days

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So there you go...your thanks for being a loyal buyer of GM...increases in employment in India and China while plants are closed in the US.

Feel good knowing you bought American while you drive your GM around town...while looking for work...you've earned it.



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Foreclosures 46% higher in March than a year ago

The number of homeowners facing foreclosure surged in March as lenders lifted temporary moratoriums and resumed legal actions against delinquent mortgage payers.

Foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported on 341,180 properties in March, 46% more than a year ago and 17% above February's total, RealtyTrac reports today.

One in 159 U.S. housing units received at least one foreclosure notice in the first quarter, for a total of 803,459, according to RealtyTrac, which lists foreclosed properties around the country.

The sharp increase in foreclosures comes as the Obama administration is launching an effort to help as many as 9 million borrowers avoid foreclosure by modifying their loans or refinancing mortgages. Many lenders put a temporary freeze on foreclosures late last year while the administration prepared its program.

Much of March's activity was in new foreclosure actions — bank repossessions fell 3% from February. With most of the moratoriums now lifted, bank repossessions are likely to start rising again.

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And so it returns with a vengeance...foreclosures by banks that are in bankruptcy themselves.

Next you can watch the credit card supplying banks raise rates to their legal maximum before the new regulations go into effect next year.

This is nothing more than last ditch gouging by financial institutions that are unable to conduct business that legally produces profit and should be required by law to fail.

Watch your credit card rates skyrocket this year as banks that are losing money attempt to make you pay for their risky mortgage investments.

Banks aren't going to pay for their losses...you are.


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RIAA's Cary Sherman Talks About How He Is A Tool

RIAA's Cary Sherman says lawsuits were the only option

Cary Sherman offers no apologies and won't for a second concede that filing lawsuits against people who pilfered digital music from artists was ineffective. On the contrary, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America makes a case that chasing file sharers into court was the only option in 2003, during one of the darkest periods in the music industry's history.

"If you can go back to that time in your mind and remember that file sharing was growing at logarithmic pace," Sherman said referring to 2003, not long after file-sharing service Napster had triggered a music-swapping frenzy. "It was unbelievable how much infringement was going on and there was no sense that it was illegal. There were no legal cases or precedent, nothing to discourage people from this kind of behavior."

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Wow! Cary's last party must have been a real dud if he suddenly felt the need to spout off about how he was right when no one gives a crap anymore...he said 2003...2003!...Cary its 2008 ! That was 5 years ago why the hell are you tooting your horn now?

And guess what Cary

The Record Industry testified to the U.S. Government that when the research and development of CD's was paid off from revenues the price of CD's would drop...YOU LIED TO THE U.S.GOVERNMENT.

People go to jail for that...kind of like what you did with those useless, meaningless lawsuits against the very people the Government sought to protect from price gouging...so I guess when you fell through on your promise to lower the price and your former customers found a work around you were probably crapping your designer jeans.

What does a CD cost you to produce, print and package?...about 2 bucks?

What are you charging for the CD?

$17?

$19?

$25?

What cut does the artist get?

5%?

Less?

Since the industry probably has them on a advance pay contract with a multi-album deal and making them in essence indentured servants they usually never are able to pay of the cash advance....they call it pimping in some circles Cary.

Let's continue...everyone else if the whole free world knew that the world wide web would be the new medium of choice for data and music but you failed to notice this..the whole world changed overnight and you were running to catch up...not like you didn't have the chance to take some of your grotesque profits and invest in standards and protection of the new medium, you tried to halt the whole thing through litigation...wow...how much to you get paid to fail to this degree?

Lets go back in time...you can no longer play a whole album on the radio why?..because the record industry litigated that they would lose too much profit from people bootlegging onto tape and not buying the album in the first place...nope that never came to fruition did it? The industry paranoia just limited what your potential customers could enjoy.

Bravo!

Wasn't it your industry that tried to litigate against the phonograph so it would be impossible to record albums to tape in home?...That didn't happen thank God but what damage did it do anyway? None...you still have money coming out your ass from your monopoly on recorded talent.

If you REALLY think you stemmed any kind flow of underground product you should get some smarts...people are just migrating to the unsigned new talent that you failed to woo into your cabal and can be readily found online with.....no record industry involvement...that must really get your panties in a bunch.

Personally since the RIAA starting suing everyone they felt they could, my record buying habits dropped off an astonishing 90% easily.

So where I used to buy 10 records a year I buy about 1 and it's usually from a used CD store so you don't even see that dime...way to go champ.

In closing you better take stock of your situation before you go spouting off about your greatness as a actual worthwhile litigation cause.

The record industry and the RIAA are nothing more than a dead medium overseen by a inept executive body and you don't even have the sense to know it.

The Emperor has no clothes on.



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Remember When...

Remember when when you used to pay your bills they included a prepaid postage stamped envelope?

Not since they discovered it cost them 37 cents to take my $532.02 medical payment and another 37 cents to take my $1010.21 house payment....it kinda pisses me off.

Really? you need that 37 cents form my 5 or 10 hundy?

Just what level of hell do you plan on spending eternity?

Insurance and mortgage companies are tools....that is about it.



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