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Mayor indicted: Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was indicted for perjury this week after sexually charged text messages revealed that he lied to a grand jury about his affair with Christine Beatty, his chief of staff. Beatty, 37, was also indicted. Kilpatrick, 37, had denied the affair to a grand jury hearing evidence in a wrongful-termination suit brought by two Detroit police detectives; they claimed they’d been fired for looking into allegations that Kilpatrick enlisted city personnel to conceal the affair. The city settled the suit for $8.4 million before the text messages were entered as evidence, but the Detroit Free Press later published them. The married Kilpatrick, a Democrat, faces up to 80 years in prison if convicted of all charges. Despite mounting pressure to resign, he vowed to remain in office.

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