DETROIT — A prosecutor Monday accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond in an assault case by spending time over the weekend with his sister, one of 11 witnesses listed by authorities.
Kilpatrick and Ayanna Kilpatrick were at their mother’s house Saturday, a day after he was released from jail for violating bond in a perjury case, said Doug Baker of the Michigan attorney general’s office.
The mayor is charged with assaulting two investigators who were trying to deliver a subpoena at his sister’s house in July in the perjury case. In a court filing, Baker said the mayor had been ordered to have no contact with witnesses.
In a statement, Kilpatrick spokesman Marcus Reese accused state Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican, of trying to score political points with the latest filing against the embattled Democratic mayor.
District Judge Ronald Giles will hold a hearing on the matter today. Giles is the judge who sent Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating his bond conditions in a perjury case involving Kilpatrick and a former top aide. The mayor traveled to nearby Windsor, Ontario, for city business without notifying authorities.
Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, were charged in March with perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. They are to be arraigned Thursday. Prosecutors say text messages contradict their denial of an affair, a key point in a trial involving a former deputy police chief who claimed he was illegally fired.
