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Reports: Wife of Rep. Conyers threatened with indictment
The Hill ^
Posted on 06/16/2009 1:14:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reports: Wife of Rep. Conyers threatened with indictment @ 3:42 pm by Michael O'Brien
Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, the wife of longtime Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) received a letter Tuesday indicating a pending indictment from federal authorities on corruption-related charges.
Conyers received a pre-indictment letter instructing her to reach a plea deal with prosecutors by the end of the week or face charges, according to Detroits two papers, the Free Press and News.
The investigation involves whether Conyers took bribes to switch her vote on a $1.2 billion contract with Synagro Technologies to handle disposal of Detroit's sludge. Conyers, who served as head of the City Council after the ouster of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has been under investigation for some time for her connections to the deal.
The News reported that Conyers is considering a plea bargain, but is reluctant to serve jail time as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Rep. Conyers is chairman of the influential House Judiciary Committee.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 111th; conyers; corruptdems; crime; detroit; detroitcrackcity; indictment; michigan; monicaconyers; sludge
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Don't say it's so......I'm shocked!
To: xsmommy; NeoCaveman
ohhhhhhh........pass the popcorn.....this should be good.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:15:49 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: Sub-Driver
So much for the most ethical administration ever Nancy....LIAR!
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:17:24 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
To: Sub-Driver
Me too. I am soooooooo shocked. When are they going to send one to him?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:17:57 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Sub-Driver
ROTFL! Hubby is head of the House Judiciary. Wonder how he’ll get her off?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:18:30 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Sub-Driver
Indict the racist POS husband too.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:19:36 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Sub-Driver
The MAN trying to keep a strong willed African American woman down. Al Sharpton should be gassing up his Oldsmobile and heading to Detroit.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:19:46 PM PDT
by
VicVega
(Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
To: lilylangtree
"Wonder how he’ll get her off?" If shoe goes to prison, I guess he'll be limited to conjugal visits.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:21:16 PM PDT
by
who_would_fardels_bear
(The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
To: Sub-Driver
there are some funny videos of monica conyers on youtube. she is INCREDIBLE...very rude and at the center of destroying detroit. she is one of the rudest, meanest politicians on the planet.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:23:09 PM PDT
by
wildwood
To: Sub-Driver
If she was some nobody in Detroit’s wife, she’d already be making the phone calls to scrounge up the bail.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:23:31 PM PDT
by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: Sub-Driver
Couldn’t happen to a more corrupt person......
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:25:16 PM PDT
by
BossLady
("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
To: Sub-Driver
She may be able to cut about any deal she wants to with the Feds. If they have to try her in Detroit, she's probably all but home free...what jury "of her peers" would convict her there?
Though they did find their mayor guilty. Still, I wouldn't bet against her.
To: Sub-Driver
The whole family is corrupt. All liberals are.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:27:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Sub-Driver
Plea deal. A couple of weeks under house arrest with several hours a day free to shop, and socialize.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:30:15 PM PDT
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
To: Sub-Driver
"took bribes to switch her vote on a $1.2 billion contract with Synagro Technologies to handle disposal of Detroit's sludge"
$1.2 Billion worth of turds$$$ You've got to be $h!tting me.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:30:56 PM PDT
by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
To: Sub-Driver
Liberals are trash, why is this surprising? look at stretch face Pelosi and the Starkist connection.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:32:12 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: Sub-Driver
But she’s a leftist! I thought bribes were OK!
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:34:14 PM PDT
by
Oldpuppymax
(AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
To: Sub-Driver
How long before Holder orders this dropped?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:42:14 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:47:40 PM PDT
by
BAW
(Fire David Letterman)
To: Sub-Driver
It’s not illegal for democrats to take bribes. It’s expected.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:50:56 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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