DETROIT (WXYZ) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has asked for a break on his payments toward $1 million in restitution for the text message scandal.
Kilpatrick will earn a minimum of $10,000 per month at his new job at Covisant, but documents filed in Wayne County Circuit Court show he has so many large personal expenses that he only has $6 left after the bills are paid. The documents also show that those bills don't even include Kilpatrick's $635,828 in unpaid legal bills.
Kilpatrick's attorney Michael Alan Schwartz claims Judge David Groner's mandated payment schedule seems to be designed to cause Kilpatrick to fail his restitution requirements.
Text messages showed that Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty lied under oath during a 2007 police whistle-blower lawsuit trial.
