DETROIT, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is late on his monthly restitution payment to the city for the second straight month, The Detroit News reports.
Kilpatrick, who had agreed to pay $150 a month toward the $860,000 in restitution he owes as part of a plea bargain, is a week late on his October payment, court records show.
He was late on his September payment, due Sept. 6, by 23 days.
The former mayor had agreed on his release from prison in August to make the payments. The 2008 plea bargain enabled him to avoid trial on felony charges related to a text-message scandal.
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He has said he will pay the full $860,000.
The News notes it would take about 478 years to pay the restitution at $150 per month.
Documents obtained under a Freedom of Information request by WXYZ-TV, Detroit, show Kilpatrick, who now lives in Texas, had reported to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Aug. 3, the day after his release from a Michigan prison, that he was earning $5,000 a month.
The documents did not indicate the source of the income.
The News said he told his Texas parole officer he had little left to pay restitution after monthly expenses.
Kilpatrick's lawyers have said his only income is profits from speeches and the sale of a book he co-authored, "Surrendered: The Rise and Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick."
A court order stipulates proceeds from the book go to an escrow account managed by the Wayne County treasurer, with all the proceeds going toward restitution. Deputy Wayne County Treasurer David Szymanski said the book's publisher, Creative Publishing Consultants, has sent no money to the fund.
Kilpatrick is to be tried next year in federal court on corruption charges.
