DETROIT – SkyTel Paging delivered thousands of text messages in the form of CDs to federal judges in Detroit on Friday, Local 4 has learned.
The messages come from city-issued pagers on the day exotic dancer Tamara Greene died -- April 30, 2003. It was also on the day that a memo came out from then Police Internal Affairs Chief Gary Brown about the rumored Manoogian Mansion party.
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Greene's son, Johnathan Bond, filed a lawsuit alleging former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and members of the city's police department tried to block the investigation into Greene's death.
Bond's attorney, Norman Yatooma, asked Judge Gerald Rosen to preserve the text messages and e-mails of 34 city employees.
Rosen ordered the city to give up its records so SkyTel could send the text messages from every city-issued pager in the hours before, during and after Greene was attacked and slain.
"In the four months of text messages from only Christine Beatty, we've seen evidence of the affair, we've seen evidence of the wrongful termination of Gary Brown, we've seen evidence of the cover-up of that termination," said Yatooma.
Yatooma said if city officials were sending messages about Greene?s death, his case will be far from over.
"If we find anything at all, I imagine it will be quite telling,? he said.
Judges will go through the messages, and their findings will be given to attorneys. Any evidence of a crime committed will go to the FBI.