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$9.6 million restitution sought from ex-Detroit mayor and friend

Kwame M. Kilpatrick (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt)
Kwame M. Kilpatrick (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt) | License Photo

DETROIT, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say they seek more than $9 million in restitution from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a friend, both convicted of racketeering.

The federal government seeks $9,654,553, a "conservative money judgment" that is the "low end of ... estimated profits" that Kilpatrick and Bobby Ferguson, a contractor, received from a racketeering conspiracy and extortion, prosecutors wrote in documents filed Monday.

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The request was made days ahead of sentencing for both men, who have been in jail since their March conviction for running what prosecutors called a criminal enterprise involving bid-rigging, extortion and bribery, the Detroit Free Press said.

Kilpatrick was previously jailed after conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, and again for a parole violation.

Prosecutors have asked for a sentence of a possible 28 years in prison for Kilpatrick, and up to 15 years for Ferguson.

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