Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit’s youngest elected leader, is to be prosecuted for perjury, obstruction of justice, misconduct in office and conspiracy after lying under oath about an extramarital affair with a top aide.

Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath her romantic relationship with Kilpatrick in 2002 and 2003, was also charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, who charged the two, insisted that the issues were not private and did not only concern the ones who were directly involved, as some have suggested.

Some have suggested that the issues in this case are personal or private," Worthy said, according to the Associated Press.

"The justice system has been severely mocked and the public trust trampled on. ... This case is about as far from being a private matter as one can get," she concluded.

Worthy said she and her staff analyzed more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published sexually explicit text messages sent by Kilpatrick to Beatty both in 2002 and 2003.

The messages are proving that the statements that Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath are completely false. Some of the documents that were needed to complete the investigation were destroyed or lost by Kilpatrick’s accomplices. Worthy thinks more people could be charged.

"Our investigation has led to other potential defendants, so we will continue our investigation into their activities," she says, according to USA Today. "Let me be very, very clear: this was not an investigation focused on lying about sex."

The couple also gave misleading testimony about the firing of police officer Gary Brown, whose actions threatened to uncover their secret relationship.

"Gary Brown’s, Harold Nelthrope's and Walter Harris’ lives and careers were forever changed," Worthy said. "They were ruined financially and their reputations were completely destroyed because they chose to be dutiful police officers.”

Aides of Kilpatrick have said that the mayor had no intention of leaving the office.