DETROIT, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. D-Mich., has denied any wrongdoing in taking an all-expense paid trip to the Caribbean as charged by a watchdog group.
Kilpatrick, the mother of ousted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, defended her actions in a letter to the Detroit News and said the House Ethics Committee had approved the trip. "The organizing foundation submitted the required information to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct," she said.