On the last day of Donald Trump's presidency he commuted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick 28 year prison sentence [click here if you missed that].
This week Kwame was on hand for Trump's rally in Saginaw...
From AOL
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick paid a visit to a crowded political rally in Saginaw County on Wednesday for the man who commuted his prison sentence in 2021: former President Donald Trump.
The Detroit News, which first reported that Kilpatrick was in attendance at the campaign rally, showed the former mayor in photographs wearing a white baseball cap and a light blue coat. Television footage of the rally showed a person appearing to be Kilpatrick standing near the front of the crowd to the left of the stage after Trump's speech, near where the former president walked up the stairs back into his plane to depart.
On his last day as president in 2021, Trump commuted Kilpatrick's public corruption sentence, cutting 20 years off a sentence for a conviction handed down in 2013. The former mayor − elected in 2001 and again in 2005 − resigned from office in 2008 in the aftermath of a text message scandal uncovered by the Free Press that purported to hide a romantic relationship between him and his chief of staff they had denied in an earlier whistleblower trial.
Kilpatrick was later sentenced to a 28-year federal prison sentence on convictions involving several charges of public corruption, including racketeering, bribery, extortion and fraud.
Trump pardoned or otherwise commuted the sentences of more than 140 people during his last day in office, including Kilpatrick, though he left in place $4.7 million in restitution owed by the former mayor.
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