Witness Says Manoogian Party Happened

LIVONIA, Mich. - It's the story that haunted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's administration -- the rumored, wild party at the Manoogian Mansion. Now, a witness has come forward with explosive testimony. He says the party did indeed happen and at least one other high ranking official was there.

"He came to us. He contacted us several months ago," said attorney Norman Yatooma. "Each time his story has had the exact same explicit detail. I believe he's telling the truth."

Yatooma says an affidavit represents an enormous break in proving an alleged cover-up. For the first time a witness on the record is saying he was at the rumored but never proven Manoogian Mansion party thrown by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the fall of 2002.

"He witnessed lap dances occurring for both Mike Cox, as well as for Kwame Kilpatrick. He knew Tammy Greene, so he knew that to be Tammy Greene who was providing Kwame Kilpatrick a lap dance," Yatooma said. "He says that Carlita came in, assaulted Tammy Greene. I think the word he used was that she punched her and that they collapsed on a coffee table, broke the table and that Carlita used a leg of that table to beat Tammy Greene with."

Yatooma calls this a motive for a murder cover-up by the ex-mayor since dancer Tamera Greene was shot to death in April of 2003.

Attorney General Mike Cox, who is now running for governor, weighs in with this...

"I've never been inside the Manoogian Mansion. The closest I've ever came to the place is a bunch of us at 16 in high school drove by it when Coleman Young lived there," said Cox. "Where was this guy eight years ago when Gary Brown was looking at this? Where was he seven years ago when we were looking at it?"

In Simon's second report, you'll learn a lot more about the guy who is on the record in that affidavit and why Mike Cox says he cannot be trusted due to his extensive criminal history.  Click on the second video to watch.