Legal Industry News
May 28, 2009
Lawyers in Detroit Mayor’s Text Message Case Face Ethics Charges
Attorney Mike Stefani and four other lawyers have been charged with ethics violations for using a “salacious trove” of text messages as leverage to procure $8.4 million as settlement for two lawsuits against ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Stefani obtained Kilpatrick’s text messages, which detail an intense sexual relationship between Kilpatrick and his chief of staff Christine Beatty, by sending a subpoena to SkyTel Inc., the city’s communications provider. He received them in October 2007, a few weeks after the conclusion of a trial brought by Stefani on behalf of police officers who claimed that Kilpatrick punished them because they were…
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