Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick headed for prison

DETROIT Kilpatrick asked Judge David Groner (GRO-ner) to show him compassion during this morning's hearing. But Groner said "that ship has sailed."

Kilpatrick was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.

Groner ruled last month that the 39-year-old Kilpatrick failed to report all of his assets and meet other conditions of his probation.

Kilpatrick was ordered to pay the city $1 million after pleading guilty in 2008 to obstruction of justice. Sexually explicit text messages showed Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with a staffer.

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