Posted on 03/10/2010 12:06:34 PM PST by Kieri
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Monica Conyers has just been sentenced to 37 months in prison. She also received 2 years of supervised probation. Just before sentencing, Conyers screamed "If they have their tapes, I have my tapes too. I taped Rayford, I taped Riddle. You'll be fair to me or I want to withdraw my plea."
She also yelled, "What about my children? They did nothing to cause this. All I did was try to help someone I fired."
Same here.
If it were up to me, she'd be getting 37 years.
thanks
hopefully this will help any R candidates in the region
I wonder if they she and John will have “privileges” and get a couples apartment in a federal prison by the end of the year.
May John join her in prison.
Here’s a memorable moment from U.S. Rep John Conyers’ (D) Detroit wife, who sat on Detroit city council
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQLxVO-qjM
Her corruption is one of the reasons Detroit is an abject failure. Enjoy prison, bee-yotch.
Her children will have to attend public school since she can’t slip her hand in a businessman’s pocket and grab wads of cash (she actually did this!!).
She’ll get a pardon from Obama before the year is out.
I think these were federal charges. If so, I think she has to serve 85% of the sentence.
From the Detroit News:
They noted evidence at the recent trial of political consultant Sam Riddle, Conyers’ former aide, pointed to Conyers receiving tens of thousands of dollars more in bribes from business people with matters before the council or the General Retirement System.
Lennie Jackson, a paroled drug felon and the brother of Detroit businessman Rayford W. Jackson, testified at Riddle’s trial that he acted as a courier for his brother, delivering cash to Conyers at a west side Detroit McDonald’s and the Butzel Family Center on the east side. Jackson also testified he delivered Conyers an envelope outside a Mr. Fish restaurant, though he didn’t know what the envelope contained.
An FBI agent testified about another 2007 incident at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in which he saw what he believed was cash passing hands from Rayford Jackson to Riddle to Conyers.
Rayford Jackson, Synagro’s Detroit partner on the sludge deal, refused to cooperate with investigators and got the maximum five-year sentence. He is now locked up in a federal prison in upstate New York.
James R. Rosendall Jr., the former Synagro vice president who assisted investigators by making secret audio and video recordings, was sentenced to 11 months. He has yet to report to prison.
Lennie Jackson was not charged but could face trouble for violating parole from his drug case.
Riddle’s trial ended in a mistrial in February. His retrial is set for July.
http://detnews.com/article/20100310/METRO01/3100413/Monica-Conyers-gets-37-months—vows-appeal#ixzz0hiDYGmez
IIRC the max was something like five years.
Houston PING (I wonder if this is all tied in with the multicity corruption case that included Mayor Lee P. Brown's aide?)
There are no R candidates in the city of Detroit.
She is also the woman the little black girls took to the woodshed.
SHOCKER!
Rahmbo - if you’re not a Yes vote for Health Insurance Reform we’ll see that your wife gets 24 months in federal prison.
John Conyers - if I vote Yes, can you make it 37?
Too bad, so sad, TS.
Those damn Republicans and their “Culture of Corruption”!
She was paid (took a bribe) for a vote that passed a 1.2 billion dollar project.
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