Kilpatrick reaches new deal on restitution

DETROIT, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has negotiated more flexible terms on making restitution payments with his Texas parole supervisor, a report said.

After late $150 payments for two straight months, he is now $62.80 ahead on payments under the new arrangement after making a payment in that amount Oct. 24, The Detroit News reported.

The new arrangement requires a $160 payment to be made at the end of each month.

Kilpatrick, who now lives in Texas, is to pay the monthly fee toward the $860,000 he owes in restitution as part of his plea bargain. It would take 448 years to pay the restitution under that schedule.

His second payment, due Oct. 11, was five days late.

Kilpatrick pleaded guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice and resigned as mayor. He agreed to pay the city restitution in the plea-bargain deal that enabled him to avoid trial on charges including lying under oath during the text-message scandal.

He went to prison in May 2010 for failing to make payments based on a finding he had hidden or squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars. He agreed to make the restitution payments on his release from prison in August.

Kilpatrick has claimed indigence and received a publicly funded team of private defense lawyers for his coming racketeering trial in Detroit.

He told authorities in Texas, where he lives with his wife and three sons in a Dallas suburb, that he is making $60,000 a year and that after paying monthly household expenses, he has only about $50 a week in cash.

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