Former Cobo director pleads guilty in FBI probe of city corruption

By Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick • Free Press Staff Writers • October 6, 2008 Glenn Blanton, who ran Cobo Center under then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from 2004 to 2007, pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice in a wide-ranging FBI investigation of corruption in Detroit city government. Blanton, 47, of West Bloomfield, pleaded guilty to trying to hide his acceptance of a $15,000 bribe from Karl Kado, a Cobo contractor. Under the plea... [read full story]