Time Line: Investigation into rumored Manoogian party

2002
September: Rumors circulate about a wild party at the Manoogian Mansion, where Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s wife allegedly beat a stripper.

2003
April 30: Stripper Tamara Greene, 27, said to have danced at the rumored party, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Detroit while sitting in a car with her boyfriend.

May 13: Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown claims he was fired by Kilpatrick for investigating the party as well as misconduct charges involving the mayor’s security team. Brown later sues.

May 15: Kilpatrick denies the party: “It never happened, it never happened, it never happened.” He calls for an investigation by then-Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans.

May 19: Attorney General Mike Cox says he will lead an investigation with State Police help.

June 24: Cox ends five-week investigation saying: “The party has all the earmarks of an urban legend and should be treated as such.

2004
April 2: Free Press reports State Police troopers, in investigative documents, said Cox undercut the investigation by denying subpoenas for hospital records and by interviewing the mayor without them and without putting Kilpatrick under oath.

2005
Nov. 7: Ernest Flagg, father of one of Greene’s children, sues city on his son’s behalf, saying Detroit cops deliberately botched the Greene investigation.

2007
Oct. 30: Birmingham lawyer Norman Yatooma takes Flagg’s case and finds witnesses to bolster claims of the party and beating.

2007
Sept. 11: Jury awards Brown and another fired cop $8.5 million. Kilpatrick vows to appeal, but settles after Brown’s lawyer obtains text messages showing Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied under oath at the trial about an affair and Brown’s firing.

2008
Sept. 4: Kilpatrick pleads guilty for lying at trial and is sentenced to 120 days in jail and resigns.

2009
Oct. 1: Evans, Detroit’s new police chief, reassigns the Greene murder investigation to a multi-jurisdictional task force.

Oct. 20: State Police Detective Sgt. Mark Krebs says in his deposition that the Manoogian probe was stymied by Cox, Detroit police brass and reluctant witnesses.

Oct. 23: Cox, a Republican now running for governor, says he is weary of defending himself against accusations that he thwarted the Manoogian investigation.

Oct. 30: Cox says he will sit for a deposition in the Flagg case.