Kilpatrick pal Ferguson on trial again in Detroit

Published January 22, 2014 12:17am ET



DETROIT (AP) — Jury selection is underway for a Detroit contractor who is back in court after being sentenced to 21 years in prison in a different case.

Bobby Ferguson’s legal woes didn’t end with his conviction and sentence in a scheme to reap millions with the help of then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Prosecutors are putting him through another trial after a jury failed to reach a verdict in a bid-rigging case in 2012.

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