kwame kilpatrick may be behind bars but
he isn't staying quiet tonight we take
you inside the liaison that ultimately
toppled his regime and his mistress is
also opening up with insights from a
tumultuous time in the city there was
always the guilt in this this is wrong
thing oh but it does feel that hope it
feels so right but it's so wrong
brand new interviews with the national
podcast are illuminating new truths and
the scandal that shook Detroit tonight
low before defender Kevin deeds takes us
inside the scam a national podcast
called crime town is focusing its second
season on corruption in Detroit from the
Coleman Young era to the Kwame
Kilpatrick era the producers scoring
exclusive new interviews most recent
episode is called the affair and it has
Kwame Kilpatrick
Carlita Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty
opening up like never before
Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of
racketeering and sentenced to 28 years
behind bars now he's suddenly speaking
out in a lengthy podcast interview in
the former Detroit Mayor and his
mistress aren't holding anything back
from the first crush at Cass Tech High
School Chris was a majorette she's not
played football so don't always notice
her you know Lou and I had broken up so
we were not together and then senior
year Kwame and I kind of liked each
other
but you know we were always hesitant I
know she's gonna be embarrassed but
Christine was the the no sex till
marriage girl I liked her incredibly I
was always so nervous around Chris that
I never I didn't like anybody else like
I like turning Ashley to election night
when Kwame Kilpatrick became Detroit's
youngest mayor in both he and Christine
Beatty were married to other people
we were actually cleaning up the
campaign headquarters and now we were
looking at the river overlooking
everything it kind of hit us both at the
same time and we won this race so we
were laughing we were
and I hugged her and I kissed her when I
tell you it was one of those moments
like in movies where the mean is perfect
over the Detroit River the snow was
dancing across the you know it was the
beginning of a torrid affair between the
mayor and chief of staff there was
always the guilt in this this is wrong
thing oh but it does feel that hope it
feels so right but it's so wrong that
the comfort was that he was there for me
and while the former mayor sells his
affair in the podcast as a first love
romance he also admits he was far from
exclusive with his wife or Christine I
was not you know a faithful husband how
was that horrible I had other affairs
this was not the only affair eventually
he stopped trying to hide it from the
inner circle mayor goes in the house
I mean five minutes later Christine
comes in the house you know good pulls
up it goes in and they in therefore have
a lawn they in there Kwami and Christine
say suddenly when their salacious text
messages went public
politically motivated prosecutors in the
media made them look like criminal
gangsters they insist they were
incarcerated not for criminal behavior
but for a sexual affair how did that
lead us to jail did I ever see myself
sitting in a prison because I don't know
Kilpatrick may be more open to discuss
all of this with crime town's podcast
producers because now he is divorced
from his wife Carlita she also spoke of
those years but with considerably more
pain in her voice underneath of that was
a lot of hurt and a lot of anger and a
lot of embarrassment even through all of
it there was always this belief knowing
that
God would pull me through this some kind
of way somehow and that I had to be a
good mother I had to wake up and be a
mom and that's what kind of carried me
through on March 11 2013
Tommy Kilpatrick was convicted on 24
federal felony counts including mail
fraud wire fraud and racketeering he's
been in prison ever since currently
being held at Fort Dix in New Jersey a
minimum-security federal prison Kwame
Kilpatrick's release date is 2037 he
makes it very clear that he believes his
sentence is grossly unjust and he hopes
to be pardoned early you can listen to
the entire crime town podcast on Spotify
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