rssConyers’ Wife Offered Plea Deal in Detroit Corruption Case
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 9:07 am
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The Michigan Messenger’s Minehaha Forman has the details:
The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent connection to the Synagro Technologies sludge scandal according to published reports Tuesday afternoon. Conyers, who is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., is suspected of being “Council member A,” a figure investigators say accepted money for a vote to approve the $1.2 billion sewage disposal contract between Synagro and the city.
In 2007, the city council voted 5-4 to approve the contract with Texas-based Synagro. Conyers, who was initially opposed to the contract, changed her vote last minute and was the deciding vote in approving the contract. Earlier this year, Synagro’s Michigan vice president, James R. Rosendall Jr., pleaded guilty to counts of bribery connected with the contract. On Monday, Synagro consultant Rayford Jackson pleaded guilty of giving a Detroit city council member money in exchange for a favorable vote.
Conyers has insisted that she is not involved in the scandal but did not immediately refuse a plea deal Tuesday afternoon. Her lawyer has declined to comment on the plea bargain.
2 Comments
Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 7:55 am
I haven't followed Monica Conyers as much as her congressman husband, but controversy seems to follow both of them.
Impeachment advocates were beyond frustration in dealing with Rep. John Conyers.
In spite of tremendous support for Impeachment from the netroots, Conyers dithered and delayed for seven years and refused to have Impeachment debated and voted on by his House Judiciary Committee.
When activists delivered a huge Petition Supporting Impeachment ( over 1.1 Million Signatures) Conyers had those delivering it Arrested And IGNORED The 1.1 Million Signature Petition. He has never mentioned it again that we know of.
Now Conyers is the Democrat's designated champion of investigation & prosecution of Bush's Torturers. Nothing much will come of it. Rep. Conyers talks about action, but does little.
If others are as frustrated by Monica as we are with her husband, you have our sympathy.
Rep. Conyers is also the designated Democratic champion for Single Payer.
In my opinion Politicians who Refuse to Enforce the Federal Law on Torture
WILL NEVER Get You Single Payer Health Care.
They have not the courage.
SIGN THE PETITION
calling for prosecution of Bush's Torturers
.
Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
I haven't followed Monica Conyers as much as her congressman husband, but controversy seems to follow both of them.
Impeachment advocates were beyond frustration in dealing with Rep. John Conyers.
In spite of tremendous support for Impeachment from the netroots, Conyers dithered and delayed for seven years and refused to have Impeachment debated and voted on by his House Judiciary Committee.
When activists delivered a huge Petition Supporting Impeachment ( over 1.1 Million Signatures) Conyers had those delivering it Arrested And IGNORED The 1.1 Million Signature Petition. He has never mentioned it again that we know of.
Now Conyers is the Democrat's designated champion of investigation & prosecution of Bush's Torturers. Nothing much will come of it. Rep. Conyers talks about action, but does little.
If others are as frustrated by Monica as we are with her husband, you have our sympathy.
Rep. Conyers is also the designated Democratic champion for Single Payer.
In my opinion Politicians who Refuse to Enforce the Federal Law on Torture
WILL NEVER Get You Single Payer Health Care.
They have not the courage.
SIGN THE PETITION
calling for prosecution of Bush's Torturers
.
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