DETROIT -- Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is denying any speculation that her office is working on a deal with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

The prosecutor released this statement: “It is the policy of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office not to comment on matters related to negotiations in the Kilpatrick case or any other case. Reports regarding negotiations in print and broadcast media are not coming from my office. There are other sources who, for some unknown reason, wish to give erroneous information to the press. We caution the public to remember this.”

Sources told Local 4 that there have been talks going on behind the scenes to work out one or more deals with the mayor, possibly even before the governor’s Sept. 3 removal hearings begin.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the removal hearings on Tuesday. The mayor has since filed a lawsuit questioning the governor’s ability to be unbiased in the hearings. After a hearing on Friday, Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Ziolkowski said because of the nature of the case and the significance, he will need more time to prepare. He rescheduled another hearing for Tuesday at 10 a.m. where he said he will announce his decision.

Kilpatrick is charged with 10 felonies, including perjury and obstruction of justice, in two criminal cases.

Sources said the Michigan attorney general and the Wayne County prosecutor put a joint deal together that would have had the mayor leaving office in exchange for lesser charges in all criminal cases. But the mayor apparently rejected the deal because it included jail time.

Last Friday, the mayor didn’t move on a plea deal in regards to his assault case that was presented to him by the attorney general's office in which it offered to remove one count of assault in exchange for his resignation.

The mayor’s assault charges stem from an incident on July 24, when he is accused of shoving deputy Brian White into investigator JoAnn Kinney while officers were trying to deliver a subpoena.

Local 4 has learned that two additional attorneys have joined the mayor’s legal team, each for specific reasons.

Gerald Evelyn, who has been known to have a positive relationship with the prosecutor’s office, will work to offer the mayor’s resignation in exchange for turning the eight felony charges against the mayor into misdemeanors -- to keep the mayor out of jail.

Todd Flood will attempt to negotiate the assault charges issued by Attorney General Mike Cox. Flood has a good relationship with the attorney general's office and will try to persuade them to let the mayor resign in exchange for reducing the two felony assault charges to misdemeanors.

Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty are being tried on perjury charges. They are accused of lying about having an intimate relationship and their roles in the firing of a police official.

Both deny the charges.

But excerpts of sexually explicit text messages recovered from Beatty and Kilpatrick's city-issued pager and first published in January by the Free Press contradicted their testimony.