Remember the highfalutin rhetoric regarding impeachment and attorney-gate?
All HOT FART MIST wasn't it, Johnny?
"Councilor pleads guilty to bribery" by Jeff Karoub, Associated Press | June 27, 2009
DETROIT - City Councilor Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful and popular Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company.
Conyers, a political unknown who won her council seat in 2005 largely on her husband’s name, admitted in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery.
But there are no conspiracies -- save for 19 Arabs from an Afghanistan cave.
She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she’s sentenced. The fiery 44-year-old Conyers left court without commenting. Her lawyer, Steve Fishman, said he will ask Judge Avern Cohn to impose a sentence that does not include prison time.
Representative John Conyers, the 80-year-old chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who prosecutors said knew nothing of the bribery, declined to answer a reporter’s questions as he walked to the House floor for a vote yesterday morning.
I think I'm going to be ill. That's why these guys love funding the Viagras, huh?
His office issued the following statement: “This has been a trying time for the Conyers family. With hope and pray, they will make it through this as a family. Public officials must expect to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards. With this in mind, Mr. Conyers wants to work towards helping his family and the city recover from this serious matter.’’
Pffffft!
Prosecutors said Monica Conyers accepted two payments in late 2007 from a
But he DEMOCRAPS CARE about you (unlike those nasty Repuglicans).
The council voted, 5 to 4, to approve the 20-year contract with Conyers’s vote. It was rescinded in January amid the accusations of wrongdoing. Berg said the Conyers plea doesn’t end the Synagro investigation, but it does mark the conclusion of the probe into elected officials in the case. Monica Conyers’s plea is the latest blow to a city beset by political scandal in recent years. Former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide were jailed after admitting to lying under oath about their romantic involvement during a whistle-blowers’ trial. And a recent audit of the city’s school system has uncovered theft and other wrongdoing by employees.
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Hey, it ain't just Detroit: Loony Looziana Legislature Reaches New Low
And YOU are PAYING for it all, taxpayers.
