Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Finds New Job Working for Computer-Related Company

According to the Detroit News, Kilpatrick will accept a job with Covisint, an affiliate of Detroit-based Compuware that operates in Texas developing communications systems for large computer networks.       

The company, according to its Web site, "streamlines and automates business processes, globally connecting business communities, organizations and systems in the manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace, public sector and financial services industries."       

After he was freed from a 99-day jail term for lying in a Whistleblowers' trial, Kilpatrick flew on a private jet chartered by his mother to interview for a job in Texas.

Despite a statement last week by Kilpatrick and Compuware board member Dennis Archer that the disgraced ex-mayor would not be hired, The Detroit Free Press, cites an unnamed source who said Compuware Chairman Peter Karmanos was preparing to announce the hiring soon.       

Meanwhile, Compuware announced it has laid off 250 employees, or about 4 percent of its worldwide work force of 6,000.  The software and technical services company didn't say where those laid off Tuesday worked, but about 3,300 of its employees have been in downtown Detroit.