Kilpatrick's parole release postponed

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's release from prison has been put off until August as Michigan authorities transfer his parole to Texas. The parole board voted in June to free the disgraced politician within weeks, when he will have completed the minimum of his sentence for violating probation. Michigan has granted Kilpatrick's request to join his wife and children in Grand Prairie, Texas, but the details of the transfer of his supervision must be worked out. He still owes Detroit more than $861,000 in restitution. "Right now, the first week of August is the most likely time," Michigan corrections spokesman John Cordell told The Detroit News Tuesday. Federal authorities, who indicted Kilpatrick in December on charges of running a criminal enterprise that stole millions of taxpayer dollars, have agreed to let him move to Texas while he awaits trial in Detroit.