- Posted June 16, 2011
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Detroit's suit against monitor moves to federal court
DETROIT (AP) -- The city of Detroit's lawsuit seeking to recoup more than $10 million it spent on a federal monitor who had an intimate relationship with then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has shifted to federal court.
Detroit first sued May 13 in Wayne County Circuit. The suit said that Sheryl Robinson Wood and her employers improperly charged the city for millions of dollars because she wasn't independent, professional and unbiased in her job monitoring changes at the Detroit police department.
Wood quit the job after text messages revealed the relationship with Kilpatrick, who was mayor until he resigned in scandal in 2008. He's now in prison.
On Tuesday, the case was transferred to U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Wood's lawyer Vincent Cohen Jr. said previously that she did her job conscientiously.
Published: Thu, Jun 16, 2011
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