Just a question...Is Judge Anna Diggs Taylor any relation to former crooked Detroit Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr.?
I remember Congressman Diggs was brought down in a scandal involving the "House of Diggs" Funeral Home either in the late '70's or early '80's.
Can someone on this thread advise? Thanks.
In 1960, she married U.S. Representative Charles Diggs.
Former Rep. Charles Diggs Jr., who served 26 years in Congress before he was censured by the House in 1980 and resigned after being convicted of operating a kickback scheme, died Monday night. He was 75.
Diggs, a Democrat who represented Detroit, died of a stroke at a Washington, D.C., hospital, said his son, Douglass Diggs of Detroit.
He was elected to Congress in 1954 and became a leading black spokesman in the House. He was convicted in 1978 of operating a payroll kickback scheme in his congressional office but was subsequently re-elected. He resigned in 1980.
Diggs served seven months of a three-year prison term.
He claimed he was a victim of selective prosecution and double standards. It was a position he maintained throughout a trial that produced guilty verdicts on all 29 counts, a lengthy congressional inquiry and ensuing years of financial and legal trouble.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/25/ap/diggs.obit/index.html