It was Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox who labeled the Manoogian Mansion Party, an urban legend after the Michigan State Police investigated at least 110 people about what many in the Detroit communities knew about a party taking place at the Detroit Mayoral residence around 2003. Now this is the same AG Cox who is now bringing charges against Kwame for supposedly assaulting a Wayne County Sheriff. However when it was time for AG Cox to really investigate the Manoogian Mansion Party where strippers and drugs were involved as well as Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's wife, Carlita Kilpatrick attacking a stripper named Tamara Greene aka Strawberry, he did not give the Michigan State Police subpoena power to interview key witnesses involved in the party.
Also AG Cox didn't allow his detectives to interview Carlita at all and now 5 years later, AG Cox who is eyeing a Gubernatorial race in 2010 is now taking down Kilpatrick for assaulting a sheriff. Now if AG Cox had only done his job right in 2003 and if he only allowed the Michigan State Police Detectives to really investigate into the alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion than all the information that is coming out in terms of new witnesses like an EMS driver, a fire fighter detective and others would have all came forward with their accounts of meeting Tamara Greene. Also it would have came out that yes in fact Tamara Greene did get treated for wounds at Detroit Receiving Hospital. While AG Cox office has reportedly reopened its case into the Party, I question why now when he labeled the party at the Manoogian Mansion, an urban legend.
For many of us on the streets of Detroit, we heard about the party and it swept through the streets like wildfire with the basic details of the party remaining the same. I remember being in my senior year of high school when I heard about the party and the facts of the party are simply. The mayor decided to have a party at the Manoogian Mansion while his wife was supposedly out and away. Strippers were at the party dancing all up on the mayor and Carlita came back sooner than expected, saw this and beat up a stripper. Now that's pretty plain and simple, however for Kilpatrick, a young naive and egoistical politician didn't want the public to find out so they created this huge cover up so that Kilpatrick and his wife stayed clear of any investigation.
Now just how far does the cover up go to, let's just say that when the case got to Attorney General Cox, he didn't give his Michigan State Police Detectives the type of power they needed to properly call in witnesses and have them testify or bring forth information that would have been critical to exposing the Manoogian Mansion Party as an urban reality. All I know is that shortly after the rumors of the party got out into the streets of Detroit and the news media heard about it, I began to see Detroit Police Officers from the former 11th Precinct now the Northeast Precinct come back to my high school after being removed from Mayor Kilpatrick's detail unit.
I remember it like it was yesterday when Kilpatrick was elected mayor in 2001 and how all these officers from the 11th Precinct bragged and were happy to be apart of the Mayor's detail protection. Many of them are friends or associates of my dad and my dad used to tell me all the time that these guys will be on diaper duty. I didn't really know what he meant until when a lot of them came back to Pershing to visit him and others at the school bragging about what they are doing and how their job is much easier now. That's when I heard my dad tell them, I bet your job is easy when all you have to do is run and get diapers at midnight for the Mayor. Do you change the diapers of his kids too?
Therefore when these same officers came back to Pershing and the 11th Precinct full time in 2003 after the rumored party had hit the major news outlets in the city, it seemed like these officers had a chip on their shoulders. They weren't the same officers that left in 2001. It seemed like many of them came back with a twitch or a nervous disorder as if they had to watch their back. It was clear than that the Manoogian Mansion Party was not an urban legend but an urban reality that was getting covered up. Now five years later, it seems as if so many people had amnesia for the last five years. I guess city of Detroit attorney Sharon McPhail was right because so many people are finally coming forward about their accounts or run ins with either Tamara Greene or the Manoogian Mansion Party. For McPhail this has to hurt since she was the mayor's biggest critic 3 years ago when she launched her mayoral bid only to be defeated once Freeman Hendrix got in the race taking away some of McPhail's clout.
Shortly after being defeated, McPhail joined forces with Kilpatrick to take down Freeman Hendrix who won the primary over the mayor. Thus the rest is history as Kilpatrick won a bitter but sweet re-election bid. If only all of these Manoogian Mansion Party witnesses had come forward five years ago than it would have saved the city a lot of money and a lot of time. If only Attorney General Mike Cox and his office had done its job correctly five years ago than think about how much money the city could have saved. It is clear that Attorney General Mike Cox is political posturing and it is at the taxpayers of Michigan expense especially the city of Detroit. Think about what the city of Detroit could have saved if Kilpatrick was convicted in 2003 or 2004. Think about what city of Detroit assets we could still have and how many jobs we could have saved if the city wasn't being sued left and right because of Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick boy.
Thanks Mike Cox for all your political posturing and for allowing the citizens of Detroit to fall victim to the McNamara machine that is perhaps crumbling as Cox, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm prey and prey on the downfall of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, all while trying to help their political careers grow while Kilpatrick's crumbles.
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