Wife of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who may still owe $1M in restitution, buys $800K suburban home

The wife of Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit who was convicted of a slew of federal and state charges and served years behind bars, has now bought a lavish home in a wealthy Detroit suburb, even as her husband likely still owes more than $1 million in restitution and back taxes.

Last Friday, the Detroit Metro Times reported that LaTicia Kilpatrick, Kwame Kilpatrick's second wife, recently purchased an expansive, 5,600 square-foot home for $807,000 in an upscale neighborhood in Novi, Michigan, located about 30 miles northwest of Detroit. According to the latest census data, the median household income in Novi is more than $110,000, roughly three times the median household income in Detroit, which is less than $38,000.

Mrs. Kilpatrick appears to have purchased the home through Pathfinder Consulting Firm, a company she owns and that is headquartered in Warren, Michigan, another Detroit suburb. She took out a mortgage for $645,600 to make the purchase, the Metro Times said.

The home has drawn the attention of local and federal prosecutors who claim that Mr. Kilpatrick, who was the mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008, still owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in connection with his 2013 conviction for fraud, extortion, racketeering conspiracy, and tax crimes, among other offenses. In January 2021, shortly before he left office, former President Donald Trump commuted Kilpatrick's 28-year prison sentence, and Kilpatrick soon afterward walked out of prison, having served just six years and four months.

As part of his conviction, Kilpatrick was also assessed a bevy of fines, and as of last February, he had paid only about $5,000. A letter from a U.S. Attorney's Office dated last month indicated that he owes $164,584.42 in federal restitution, while records in Wayne County showed he owes an additional $854,062.60 to the city of Detroit, Deadline Detroit reported.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy claimed in a statement on Friday that the city intends to collect.

Mr. Kilpatrick currently owes a very substantial amount of restitution to the City of Detroit that he was ordered by the court to pay in his state case. According to court records he has not paid anything since February 2013. It has recently come to our attention that Mr. Kilpatrick has a new job. Now that he has the means to pay, we will be taking action so that he will resume the payment of this outstanding debt to the citizens of Detroit.

The "new job" to which Ms. Worthy seems to refer is the executive director role Kwame Kilpatrick was given at Taking Action for Good, a Memphis-based nonprofit dedicated to reducing the prison sentences of inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes.

Kilpatrick and his wife, who spent years living in Atlanta and may live there still, have also become pastors and started an online ministry called Movemental Ministries. The website for the ministry does not appear to offer an opportunity for online giving.

In addition to garnishing any source of income for Kwame, feds could also put a lien on LaTicia's beautiful new home, argued former assistant U.S. attorney and current criminal defense attorney Anjali Prasad. "This idea that he can be lawfully married and somehow channel money through his wife to purchase a home, which under the law would be a marital asset, is wishful thinking," Prasad told the Metro Times. "It matters not whose name is on the title or mortgage. This is a joint marital asset."

"I’m 110% sure that the feds can and will put a lien on that home."

Whether the Kilpatricks, who have two children together, have yet moved into the home is unclear. When the Metro Times knocked on the door, a black woman, ostensibly not Mrs. Kilpatrick, answered and insisted that the Kilpatricks did not live there. However, a recent video for the couple's online ministry seems to show Kwame Kilpatrick standing in front of cabinets featured in photos in a previous listing of the home.

Apparently, the Kilpatricks have had expensive real estate in their sights for some time. In 2022, under the pretense of hosting a baby shower after the birth of their son, the couple attempted to crowdsource funds to purchase an $800,000 condo in Florida. When federal agents wanted to seize the assets accrued through that endeavor, Kwame Kilpatrick denied doing anything untoward. "If the court wants to take money from our child from a baby shower, I don't know how you respond to something like that," he said at the time.

"It all comes down to $1,600 for baby shower gifts."

On Friday, Kwame Kilpatrick claimed to Deadline Detroit that he did not owe any money to "the state" because of the terms of his 2008 plea agreement. He later declined to comment on whether he and his wife have moved into the Novi home but said he does hope to live in Detroit again someday.

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