Sentencing of Kwame Kilpatrick’s former deputy mayor Kandia Milton on federal bribery conspiracy charges planned for Thursday was postponed today to an unspecified future date.

The longtime friend and adviser to Detroit’s former mayor pleaded guilty in December in U.S. District Court to charges stemming from the $3.5 million sale of the city’s Camp Brighton. He admitted taking $20,000 to help facilitate approval of the 2007 sale by Detroit’s City Council.

Milton faces up to four years when sentenced, but government prosecutors have said they will ask for a lighter sentence based on his cooperation in the investigation of alleged corruption in Kilpatrick’s City Hall.

Milton’s brother DeDan Milton and Jerry Rivers, a former member of Kilpatrick’s Detroit Police body guard unit, also have pleaded guilty to related charges. They, too, have pledged to cooperate with investigators.

Rivers told a judge in December that he introduced a developer to the Miltons, who were at that time both serving as aides to then-mayor Kilpatrick. Rivers said he received $50,000, which he shared with the Miltons. The government alleged the Milton brothers used their city offices to promote the sale to the Chaldean Catholic Church. The church contends it was the highest bidder in a process the city conducted to sell the property and it didn’t knowingly pay a bribe. No one from the church has been charged.

The 160-acre Camp Brighton was donated to the city in the 1920s and served as a destination for generations of city children. It had been closed for years.

DeDan Milton is scheduled to be sentenced in May. Rivers’ sentencing, which had been set for this week, also was recently postponed to April.

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