... not worrying about the law, the Feds finally got around to dropping a RICO indictment on ex-Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, his dad, and some friends. They're calling the group, collectively, the Kilpatrick Enterprise. (Good name for a band, at least for a few months.)
For no good reason at all, I'm reading the actual indictment, which is a 91 page PDF. I have far more time on my hands than most of you, so I won't be upset if I'm the only one who can talk about "Company L" and "Subcontractor DC" at cocktail parties.
Fittingly, 100% of the accusations (so far -- I'm only on page 24) have to do with sewer work.
Update: well, I finished it. Kind of a sorry tale. The actual amounts of money involved in the various hand offs or kick backs aren't all that large, but I assume they only include what the Feds believe they can prove, and consequently are a subset of the actual scammage. Not a lot of humor, either; $300 stuffed into a gum package in order to "temporarily pacify" Bernard Kilpatrick; the repetition of the phrase "... for which no work was performed." No thigh-slappers, just a picture of a corrupt little group, fiddling while Rome burned.
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