The Post reports on Monica Conyers’ guilty plea here. In the snow-covered parking lot of a McDonald’s in Detroit two years ago, City Council member Monica Conyers met with a waste-management consultant who slipped her an envelope stuffed with as much as $3,000 in cash. The under-the-table payment, made shortly after she cast the swing […]
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Monica Conyers Resigns
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’ wife resigned from a position on the Detroit City Council after pleading guilty to a bribery charge, according to this report. [Monica] Conyers will leave the council effective next Monday after pleading guilty to charges that she sold her vote on a recycling contract.
Conyers Family Update
The Detroit Free Press reports that Rep. John Conyers’ wife pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery. Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers faces up to five years in prison. She has long been under suspicion in the Synagro Technologies bribery probe, not least because she had been a vocal opponent of the contract before […]