Former Kilpatrick aide: Ferguson was favored

Detroit — Kwame Kilpatrick was so focused on helping contractor Bobby Ferguson that even his own sister got mad, claiming the onetime Detroit mayor was blocking others from getting work.

"Here we go with this Bobby bull again," Ayanna Kilpatrick wrote in a 2004 text message to former mayoral aide Derrick Miller. "Can we make a $ too?"

She was upset, Kilpatrick's former top aide, Derrick Miller, testified Tuesday, because some of her business consulting clients had repeatedly found themselves on the outside if Ferguson wanted in.

Miller, in his second day on the stand, said several contractors complained about Ferguson's success at getting city work. Some complained directly to Miller; some sought the help of others, including Ayanna Kilpatrick.


By Mike Wilkinson and Robert Snell
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