A judge has blocked Kwame Kilpatrick’s family — and anyone else connected to the former Detroit mayor — from receiving a cent from the sale of Kilpatrick’s impending memoir until the $860,000 he still owes the city is paid.

Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner also ruled Monday that any money already paid to Kilpatrick or his kin for “Surrendered: The Rise, Fall & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick” must be disclosed. On May 24, 2010, the book’s publisher, Creative Publishing Consultants, entered into a contract with Aktion Enterprises, a company created by Kilpatrick’s sister, Ayanna.

Groner ruled that Ayanna Kilpatrick Ferguson and Aktion “are clearly agents of … Kwame Kilpatrick.”

Groner’s order follows a hearing last week in which he sided with prosecutors who wanted to use any proceeds from the book to help pay off Kilpatrick’s restitution as part of a plea deal stemming from the 2008 text message scandal. The judge has not yet ruled on whether the contact between Aktion and the book’s publisher will be made public.

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Source: Detroit Free Press