This him?
Posted on 01/03/2006 5:28:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge
DETROIT (AP) - A former aide to U.S. Rep. John Conyers has been arrested in Africa after skipping his sentencing on a federal fraud conviction, federal authorities said.
DeWayne Boyd, 49, formerly of Detroit, was arrested Friday in Accra, Ghana, said Daniel D. Roberts, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit Field Office. Boyd is a former aide to Willie Brown when he was the speaker of the California Assembly.
Boyd was arrested on a warrant for failing to appear at the April sentencing hearing on convictions of mail fraud, making false declarations under oath, making false statements to investigators, bankruptcy fraud and theft of government property.
The government said Boyd stole about $162,000 from four vendors and sponsors of a 1999 conference in New Orleans for black farmers. One sponsor was the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which gave $50,000 for the conference.
Boyd was convicted on Dec. 15, 2004. He was expected to be sentenced to 30 to 46 months in prison.
When Boyd failed to appear at his sentencing, U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland in Detroit issued the arrest warrant and canceled his $15,000 personal bond.
He was arrested by FBI agents and Accra police and escorted back to the United States, where he was being held by the U.S. Marshal Service, the FBI said. He appeared in U.S. District Court in New York on Tuesday and will be returned to Michigan for sentencing.
Boyd's attorney, Martin E. Crandall, said he had not talked to his client and had no immediate comment.
Boyd created and was president of the National Organization of Black Farmers in 1997, when he was an aide to Brown, according to court documents. He was the only signer on its bank account, and the now-defunct organization essentially existed to put on annual conferences, he said in court papers.
Boyd was fired from the office of Conyers, D-Mich., in 2002.
Hey John, I got your culture of corruption right here.
You're kidding, right? I'm gonna have to check out the middle of the cooking section in both the Detroit News and Free Press for the next month to see if this is reported on.......
That's better.
DeWayne Boyd, (Democrat) 49, formerly of Detroit, was arrested Friday in Accra, Ghana... former aide to Willie Brown (Democrat) when he was the speaker of the California Assembly.
FYI ping
Better still. The R would never have been omitted.
Ex-Conyers aide skips fraud sentencing, now a wanted man
ap ^ | 4-13-05
Posted on 04/13/2005 9:34:59 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Is there an honest democrat or aid left in the entire country?
aid s/b aide.
FYI
This him?
Zell Miller is the only one I can think of
Good catch. I should have said still working in Congress. And then they have the nerve to talk about Republican corruption? Please. They don't pass the smell test for honesty.
First Conyers' wife gets arrested for a barroom brawl and now an ex-aide. I think we need to have hearings to see what John Conyers knew and when did he know it.
"Better still. The R would never have been omitted."
Not by the AP (agenda Press) for sure. Do they know how transparent they are? Sure they do. Do they give a damn? No, not until they are made to pay a price.
Maybe Leiberman. It gets pretty thin after that.
But I think you are missing thier joke. Ex-CONyers aid.... that is why they did not say former aid, they can nail the ex-con joke. Rare for a paper to do with a dem.
What ever happened to the good old days when one could just skip the country hide out forever?
Was this guy an aid to Conyers at the time of the fraud? Just curious on the details.
Holy Cow! This guy is a crony of ol' Willie Brown & John Conyers and rips off black farmers. What a piece of trash. They better not let this SOB out on bail, he'll skip.
I just tried to post as a new thread an article about this from last April, and got this:
Source is Blocked, article not posted
detnews.com material cannot be posted due to copyright complaint.
If you Google "DeWayne Boyd" and "Conyers", it's the 4/13/05 article in the Detroit News. It appears from that, that this guy was an active Conyers aide at the time of the fraud.
*snicker!*
(cue old Beatles song:)
Boyd, you're gonna carry that load,
carry that load,
a long time.
off of the top of my head, I can't think of anything that Lieberman has done
But Zell Miller is probably a no-brainer here....
"What ever happened to the good old days when one could just skip the country hide out forever?"
Ha! I was thinking the same thing. He was probably saying to himself "where can I go far away, where it's not too much of a sh*t-hole (a beach would be nice), and someplace where I can easily blend in". Doh!
I wonder now if he's kicking himself saying "I should have went to Lagos; I should have went to Lagos..."
DFU SONG: Oh Donna (to Ghana....Conyers former aide flees to Africa)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1551864/posts
Hmmm.... could he have been located by NSA because of his phone calls to his friends in the states?
Honest Democrat? Jumbo shrimp. Is there one left implies that there was one in the first place.
was trying to work out a power-sharing deal in Kenya...???
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Soon to be “International Travel” Czar.
Barroom brawl nothin.
Monica Conyers (D), wife of John Conyers (D) pled guilty two weeks ago to accepting a bribe to change her vote while a member of the Detroit City Council (D).
She had to resign her seat and will be spending the next 3-5 years in jail.
Of course, John Conyers (D) knew nothing at all about the corruption in his own home.
Looks like Whoopi Goldberg.
Martin, excuse me for sending you that last post. Some Freeper responded to a comment of mine from back in 2006, and like a dummy, I thought it was a new thread. When I leafed through and saw the photo of Boyd Dewayne, I sent you my comment. Pardon the error.
Yeah, barroom brawl, which is what she was arrested for back in January of 2006 when my comment on this thread was originally posted. A little behind the times?
Eez no prollem, ‘esse.
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