Explosive new details have surfaced about the alleged party involving Kwame Kilpatrick and murdered exotic dancer Tamara Greene.  Sworn testimony from Retired Detroit Police officer Sandy Cardenas says officers responding to 911 calls told her that Mike Cox was actually at the party. Cox, who would later call it an “urban legend,” denied the allegation.

Transcripts reveal a stunning exchange between lawyers and the former officer and 911 operator:

“Who did they tell you…who did they say was in the house?” an attorney asked Cardenas at the deposition.

“Mike Cox was in the house,” answered Cardenas.

“Did more than one person tell you who was in the house…at least in terms of the mayor and Mike Cox?” asked the attorney.

“Yes, several officers did,” Cardenas responded.

Cardenas was a 911 operator in 2002 and sent police to the Detroit mansion to investigate a number of disturbance calls in the fall of 2002. 

In 2003, Attorney General Mike Cox announced his own investigation only to abruptly shut down the investigation a few days later. According to a Michigan State Police investigator Cox shut down the investigation without fully interviewing key participants and potential witnesses.

Cox recently said that “Most viewers out there probably think some sort of party happened. But the reality as a prosecutor, I need to produce someone who can come in a courtroom and say, ‘I was there and this is what happened,’ who can raise their right hand and do that.” 

We don’t disagree with that idea, but that means actually interviewing potential witnesses. So why didn’t Mike Cox interview Officer Cardenas in his investigation?

 Maybe he knew what she would say. “Mike Cox was in the house.”