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By Mona Austin REPORTS: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been released from a federal prison in Louisiana. According to a Friday news release from the Ebony Foundation, Kilpatrick has been granted early release after serving only seven years of his 28- year sentence. In 2013 he was convicted on 24 felony counts of public corruption involving extortion, bribery, conspiracy and fraud. Although activists have advocated for his release for several years Kilpatrick is likely being released early due to COVID- 19. An inmate in the facility where he was jailed passed away from the disease earlier this year. FOX 2 DETROIT REPORT ON KILPATRICK RELEASE https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/former-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-granted-early-release-from-prison-report-says According to the Associated Press, "t he U.S. Bureau of Prisons declined to comment about Kilpatrick, saying only that he remains in custody at the prison in Oakdale, Louisiana. U.S. Attorney Matth...

buzzz worthy. . . Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to 3 month of prison for tax evasion.  The 37-year-old  will also spend 3 months in home confinement. The original Fugee member failed to pay over $1 million in taxes over a decade, d espite having paid more than $900,000 in the past several days, Hill still owes interest and penalties, the U.S. attorney’s office said.