Costly Verdict

(Fox News) - Two former Detroit police officers have been awarded $6.5 million dollars in a whistleblower lawsuit that produced allegations of corruption and infidelity by Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his staff.

One of the officers was fired after looking into criminal allegations against members of the mayor's security unit. The other was transferred out of the unit after being identified as a whistleblower. He also described escorting the married mayor to trysts with several women.

The jury found that Mayor Kilpatrick and the city had violated the state's Whistleblower Protection Act.