Federal prosecutors lay out why Troy's fired city manager should get more than four and a half years in prison when sentenced Thursday for bribery.
Bill Laitner covers the corruption case for the Detroit Free Press:
Although [Brian][ Kischnick’s attorney argues he should serve 26 to 37 months behind bars, [a] new 51-page memo from prosecutors says he should get roughly double that — 55 months.
Brian Kishnick: "A rapacious manager." (Photo: Facebook)
Kischnick, 50, pleaded guilty last fall. The lengthy court filing "lays out a trail of ethical breaches worse than previously known — a record of theft and double-dealing so egregious that federal prosecutors compared the hi-jinks at Troy City Hall to the era of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick," the reporter writes.
"Kischnick was a rapacious manager who eventually came to treat the pockets of contractors, business owners and others attempting to do business in the city as his own and request cash bribes, free meals and alcohol and eventually free housing and amenities for over three years, totaling over $50,000," the report says.
The report, sent as a sentencing memorandum to U.S.District Judge Nancy Edmunds, says Kischnick’s behavior was so brazen and nakedly self-serving as to suggest he had a “god complex.”
The memo describes cash-stuffed envelopes and thousnads of dollars in free restaurant meals with costly wines.
