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Lawyer: I gave text messages to Detroit Free Press

Oct. 8, 2009
A lawyer who won a police whistle-blowers' case that led to the downfall of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick testified Thursday that he gave a copy of the ex-mayor's text messages to the Detroit Free Press in October 2007. The admission by Mike Stefani...
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