Hat tip: parker404, who left this great comment:br /embr /Damn Monica!!! Was it worth it? Triflin ass./embr /br /From a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/90626024"The Detroit Free Press:/abr /blockquotestrongMonica Conyers pleads guilty to conspiracybr /She faces up to 5 years in prisonbr /By BEN SCHMITT, JOE SWICKARD, JIM SCHAEFER, DAVID ASHENFELTER, TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA, M.L. ELRICK AND ZACHARY GORCHOW • Free Press Staff Writers • June 26, 2009br /Updated at 1:30 p.m./strongbr /br /Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.br /br /U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."br /br /The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable by up to five years in prison.br /br /No sentencing date has been set.br /br /In court, Conyers’ combative demeanor was gone, replaced by soft-spoken resignation as the judge and his staff several times asked her to speak up.br /br /Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman U.S. Rep. John Conyers, appeared before Cohn to answer charges in connection with the wide-ranging probe of wrongdoing at Detroit city hall.br /br /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 suddenly switching her sentiments. She became the deciding voice in the city council’s 5-4 vote to approve the sludge-hauling deal in November 2007.br /br /!--more--br /br /“This is not the beginning and it is certainly not the end, folks,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Andy Arena said at a news conference this morning.br /br /Arena said the message to corrupt public officials is, “We’re coming after you.”br /br /U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg said the city corruption probe continues, but this is the end of his office’s investigation “of Synagro-related conduct.”br /br /It remains unclear if federal investigators are still considering Synagro charges against Sam Riddle, the ex-Conyers aide, who court documents suggest was with Conyers when she received at least one of the bribes.br /br /Asked about Conyers’ aides, Berg said: “The investigation of course does still continue. We can’t comment further than that.”/blockquotebr /Rest of article at link above.br /br /This woman is T-R-I-F-L-I-N-G.br /br /As usual, it's another Black politician selling out the Black voters for PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR. br /br /The only good thing about it is that we don't even have to pretend that her husband is keeping the seat so that she can run for it eventually.br /br /Time to primary John Conyers.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21083673-2909694547177836926?l=mirroronamerica.blogspot.com'//div
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