Prosecutors presented secretly recorded phone conversations and other evidence to support their case that Riddle and Conyers teamed up as “political pirates” to plunder business people with matters pending before the City Council or the General Retirement System.
Riddle’s trial, which ended in a hung jury and is set for a redo in July, heard evidence that Conyers would regularly eat at Mosaic in Greektown and refuse to pay her bill, frequently hit up a city developer for cash for shopping trips and her child’s tuition, and on one occasion shocked Melvin Washington of the Phoenix Group by reaching into his pocket in public and grabbing a wad of cash.
wiretaps played at the Riddle trial, Conyers herself will never escape this quote: “You better get my loot, that’s all I know.”
Monica Conyers is getting used to wearing orange.