After completing 99 days of his 120-day jail sentence, disgraced former mayor of Detroit Kwame M. Kilpatrick emerged from the downtown Detroit facility on Tuesday and was on his way without making any statements to the crowd of reporters and cameras that gathered in front of the building.

According to Associated Press, the 38-year-old, who entered the Wayne County Jail in October for felony convictions of obstruction of justice and assault on officers who had attempted to serve a subpoena, left the facility at around 12:30 a.m. dressed in a black suit and looking considerably thinner than when he entered.

Speaking to Detroit News reporting partner WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) Tuesday night, Kilpatrick said that next in line for him was finding a new a job, and start over with his family.

“We're ready to move on with the next part of our lives,” he said in his first interview since being released Tuesday. “We're better, not bitter.”

He was expected to attend a job interview soon after he left jail but he refused to disclose any details, only saying that any job he would get would be in the private sector.

“I don't want to be specific. It may tell where I'm looking,” he told the station.

Even though Kilpatrick is out of jail, the text-message scandal that cost him his job, law license and a $1 million fine is far from over. He reportedly hired a high-profile attorney to help him investigate how the compromising text messages were leaked. 

While a local media outlet is fighting in court to obtain the rights to publish the text messages exchanged by Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and ex-lover, Christine Beatty, which started the sex scandal over a year ago, his defense lawyers are struggling to get more time to challenge the release of yet more text messages that are currently being held by prosecutors.