The federal government is seeking more than $35,000 in restitution it says the father of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick still owes from a tax evasion conviction in the public corruption probe that sent his son to prison.

Prosecutors in Detroit asked the U.S. District Court clerk's office Sept. 10 to issue a writ of garnishment upon the judgment entered against Bernard Kilpatrick, whose last known address was in Fayetteville, Georgia. A judge ordered Kilpatrick in his 2010 criminal case to pay restitution of about $62,000. The new court filing lists a bank in Woodlands, Texas, as the garnishee.

The document indicates about $26,500 already was credited to Kilpatrick's debt, leaving a balance of about $35,800 as of Sept. 10.

"Demand for payment of the above-stated debt was made up

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