The former Mayor ordered the City of Detroit to pay $9 million settlement to two (or was it 3) police officers who had filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the City. The Mayor had fired them.

It came out later that the reason the Mayor fired them was that as part of a murder investigation, the officers were on the verge of getting evidence that the Mayor was having a fling with his chief of staff.

Long story short (too late lol), the Mayor perjured himself at the officers lawsuit trial by denying the affair and a host of other things. All of this was revealed in racy text messages that the Mayor was evidently sending to his chief of staff and at least a handful of other women not his wife.

The prosecutor charged him with perjury and official misconduct. Rather than roll the dice and go to trial he agreed to 99 days in county jail and to pay back the City in part. Detroit needs every dollar it can get so the restitution is not just prosecutorial vindictiveness, although there's probably some of that...

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.