Probe targets office of Conyers's wife

Politico ^ | August 10, 2009 | Michael Falcone

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Detroit police are investigating the disappearance of thousands of dollars of city property that went missing from the office of former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich).

Monica Conyers has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but City Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. filed a formal request on Friday asking the police department to look into the whereabouts of missing electronic equipment, including laptop computers, digital cameras and printers, worth roughly $21,000.

The items disappeared when Conyers resigned her council seat on July 6 after pleading guilty to a federal bribery charge. She is awaiting sentencing and could face up to five years in prison and hefty fines.

A lawyer for Conyers, Steve Fishman, has insisted his client had nothing to do with the missing property, and the launch of the investigation sparked a war of words this weekend with Fishman accusing Cockrel in an interview with the Detroit Free Press of trying to score political points with his calls for the inquiry.

Cockrel responded that Fishman and Conyers have not been fully cooperating with the probe.

“There is absolutely no political motivation whatsoever,” Cockrel told the Free Press. “And if they are cooperating, why don't we have the missing equipment?”

[Abathar]

So friggin typical of that woman, all I can hope for is some of this stink rubs off on her husband.

Not that I doubt for a second that they won’t keep sending him back again, I mean after all this is the city that Coleman Young built but perhaps the people will finally have enough embarrassment to pull another lever in the primaries.

Hey, a guy can dream can’t he?

[Venturer]

She pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge, resigned her seat, and the ghetto thieves she had working for her cleaned the place out. Crime solved.

[basil]

It boggles the mind-—case after case after case of the politically elite being charged with crimes-—and not much ever seems to happen to them.

[sono]

Drip ... Drip ... Drip.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"It boggles the mind—case after case after case of the politically elite being charged with crimes-—and not much ever seems to happen to them."

We are a country of laws - remember? /sarc

Just doesn't apply to the elites that the sheeple have put in charge.

[count-your-change]

Paper work error, nothing is really missing. See, it wasn't a computer, it was computer paper, not a printer but printer paper, not cameras but photographic paper, so you see, paper work and only a sheet or two misplaced.