We just got through the 38-count federal indictment against former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a handful of his cohorts, alleging that the group operated as a criminal organization that extorted tens of millions of dollars from city contractors. The indictment — against Kilpatrick, his father, a city contractor named Bobby Ferguson and two former city officials — is full of bits of conversations between the men, presumably via text message and punctuated with “Lol”s and “COOL!”s.
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