The city of Detroit’s former treasurer has been sentenced to 11 years in prison in a case related to years of pay-to-play corruption under then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Jeff Beasley, who was Kilpatrick’s college fraternity brother, apologized Monday but said he didn’t extort anyone while serving as a trustee at Detroit’s pension funds. He was convicted in December, along with two other officials in a scheme to take cash in exchange for approving certain pension fund investments.