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Hmmmmm: John Conyers’ (D-MI) Wife Imprisoned For 3 Years For Accepting Bribes – Video Added



Mar 10, 2010 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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DETROIT (AP) – A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers’ request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.

Conyers suggested she was the victim of “badgering” last summer when she acknowledged a conspiracy to take bribes for her support of a Houston company seeking a sludge contract from the city.

But U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn says her plea deal was voluntary.

Conyers, the wife of Michigan Democratic Congressman John Conyers, quit her council seat after pleading guilty.

The government urged the judge to consider other alleged crimes Wednesday. Prosecutors say Conyers and an aide collected $69,500 from people seeking help from the city.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

DETROIT (AP)—The most prominent person caught in an corruption investigation in Detroit is returning to court to be sentenced in a bribery scheme involving a city sludge contract.

Ex-councilwoman Monica Conyers pleaded guilty last summer to conspiracy and admitted taking cash in exchange for supporting a Houston company, Synagro Technologies. The contract passed by one vote in 2007.

Federal prosecutors say Conyers, the wife of Michigan Congressman John Conyers, deserves four or more years in prison. Her lawyer isn’t commenting.

The government says it wants U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn on Wednesday to consider evidence of other alleged crimes involving Conyers and her former top aide, Sam Riddle. His case ended in a mistrial last month.


  • http://www.bootparkergriffith.com The Sentinel at the Gate

    Call Holder, I’m quite sure he can get you out of this “egregious miscarriage of justice”. After all you’re just like the “Panthers” aren’t you?

    • carlos cuellar

      She black, i surprise they haven’t call the race card.

  • mike3481

    And I’m sure her old man, johnny-boy, knew absolutely nothing about the “extra” 70 grand stuffed under the mattress.

    :roll:

  • MIDTN

    ROFL……….see ya bitch!

    :lol:

  • J-Two

    Oh look….she’s a nigger. Who would’ve guessed

  • Nanny

    You guys don’t understand! Our state has just been decimated by democrats like these. However, there has been a “silver lining” in these stories. It has been the cheapest entertainment I have ever experienced in my life!

    We have this nut case Monica Conyers – if you remember from a couple years ago she was shouting at the Detroit City Council President and calling him Shrek and then shouting that he should know how to take care of “his women”. It came out later that she had her felon brother hired by the city for a $38K job and he never showed up for work for 2 yrs. Then she got caught taking the $6k bribe and it came out a couple months ago at her former chief of staff’s corruption trial that she actually took bribes of $70k from others doing business with the city. And that’s all that we know of so far.

    Then there is the former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who will be in court on thurs am for probation violations relating to non payment of $1mil in restitution he says he can’t repay. Yet last year he found $15K to get his wife a tummy tuck/tighten up her twat job. They found he spent over $900k in late 2008 early 2009 and now he claims he can only afford $6/month in restitution payments. He and his wife are still under scrutiny for the murder of a stripper who supposedly gave the mayor a lap dance at the gov’s mansion. And that is just 5% of the story.

    And there is Martha Reeves from Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – she was a hoot and also on city council getting paid +80k a year and never showing up for meetings but going on a Motown Ledgends tour and telling the audience about her 2nd job as a city councilwoman.

    And the councilwoman that showed up in a bright yellow moo-moo and a tiara for her birthday. And a councilwoman who was paying only $18/year in property taxes on her home for 8 yrs because of a “glitch” in the system. She thought that’s what all Detroit residents paid for property taxes!

    And I don’t live in Detroit or it’s suburbs! I live in the middle of the state! But the whole circus that is Detroit has kept the rest of the residents with reading and entertainment for months and months!

    Believe me – in this miserable, gawd awful, economic disaster in Michigan it has been entertaining to see the liberals implode, run like cockroaches, blame everyone but themselves and completely make jack asses out of themselves. We refuse to pay money to see the crappy hollyweird movies and why should we when we have entertainment like this.

    • Nanny

      By the way – the clowns that voted for these Detroit schucksters also voted for Obama. SE Michigan has the most residents and they are all unionized or on welfare – the rest of the state is conservative.

    • http://www.bootparkergriffith.com The Sentinel at the Gate

      Got another one for you, very similar. Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Larry Langford (dark persuasion) , was just sentenced to 15 years for 60 counts of bribery. One of his greatest ideas was to dig a canal from the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, on the western side of the state, to Birmingham so cruise ships plying the waters and gambling could come see what a wonderful city Birmingham is (was).

      Birmingham has had serious money woes since this ass clown took office; one case was multi-millions of dollars wasted on a sewage treatment plant through bad contractors with the city ending up owning a shit ton of money. During his reign, Birmingham’s crime has ballooned, roads disintegrated and basic infrastructure has fallen apart.

      But I’m quite sure the people of Birmingham will elect another gem like Larry Langford who can continue the “goot” management.

    • dacoelec

      Still waiting for these stories to appear on the front page in the msm…….. chirp….chirp…..chirp…..zzzzzzzzzzz

  • GRIZZ

    Atlanta is the same way.

  • BradW (the Infidel)

    Let’s not forget to add all of the democrats under investigation by the FBI in Cleveland, and then you have to add in al lof the indicted folks who have already plead guilty to bribery and other crimes.

    Holder is gonna be one busy sumbitch waiving charges and cancelling investigations.

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