Kwame is Going to Prison

For a long, long time.

His conviction on public corruption charges Monday is the latest indignity to befall the former highflier.
It follows his resignation in 2008, his 99-day jail hitch for obstruction of justice and another 14 months for violating his probation. Prosecutors may file more charges in the future on questionable pension deals.
"He had it all. The sky was the limit," said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson. "And he squandered it."
Smart, charming, politically savvy, Kilpatrick's gifts are hard to deny, said political observers. So are his flaws.
Low morals and poor judgment plagued a public life that pursued pleasure as vigorously as responsibility, said Walter Russell Mead, a Bard College humanities professor who frequently blogs about government.
Along with the criminal charges, Kilpatrick is guilty of arrogance, narcissism and self-delusion, Mead said, adding any reader of Greek tragedy could have told him what happens to heroes besotted with hubris.