"I'm o let you finish but everybody knows i didn't do nothin' don't everybody else do ... besides, a hacksaw blade won't fit in a cupcake.
Posted on 09/11/2010 6:25:09 PM PDT by opentalk
The corrupt Detroit lawmaker who took cash bribes in fast-food parking lots will report to prison today after a federal appeals court rejected her desperate effort to avoid serving time for crimes she pleaded guilty to but subsequently denied committing.
Disgraced Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, will spend the next three years incarcerated (if you can even call it that) at a West Virginia federal detention center appropriately nicknamed Camp Cupcake. Located along a river in the scenic foothills, the facility resembles a college campus and has hosted famous inmates such as Martha Stewart.
Never the less, Conyers mounted an aggressive fight to avoid becoming a “cupcake” tenant. After pleading guilty to one of her many transgressions—taking bribes from a developer—the flamboyant politician tried to change her plea when a judge sentenced her to 37 months in prison and two years of probation. The developer paid Conyers $6,000 to change her vote on a multi million-dollar city sewage contract and the FBI had electronic surveillance evidence of her taking cash bribes in fast-food parking lots.
But Conyers went ballistic during her March sentencing hearing, exploding in court and declaring that she wasn’t going to jail for something she didn’t do. She tried withdrawing the guilty plea and took her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit when the judge refused. This week the appellate court denied Conyers’ last-ditch effort to stay out of jail, ruling that she must begin serving her sentence while she continues the appellate process.
No word if her beloved husband, who chairs the House committee that oversees the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI, will accompany her when she turns herself in today. After all, despite his $174,000 annual salary, the veteran congressman wouldn’t pay for his wife’s criminal defense attorney. Taxpayers had to pick up the tab, even though Monica Conyers’ guilty plea waives the right to contest her jail sentence.
The Conyers case is just one of many public corruption scandals to rock Detroit in the last few years. The beleaguered city’s mayor (Kwame Kilpatrick) went to jail for a multitude of crimes, its deputy mayor pleaded guilty to bribery and several public school employees have been charged with numerous felonies for embezzling education funds.
Monica, don’t worry with our newly elected reps come November we will make every effort possible to make sure you have company.
One down.
I'm gonna guess that in their home they have seperate bedrooms, and have for some time.
The only difference between Detroit and the United States is Democrats haven’t been in charge of the United States long enough.
Why would a democrat spend his own money on something that the taxpayers can foot the bill for?
Not only is she a whore, she is a cheap whore at that.
Obama money.
Democrapic Party blacks in government & academia: Rep. Conyers, his covict wife, Mayor Kirkpartick, the NOLA “ColdCash” Us Representative recently convicted, the “Chocolate City Mayor Nagin, Rep. “He Who Must Not Be Named - from Harlem, ad nauseam.
Republican blacks in government & academia: Alan Keyes, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas.
However,, the Democrapic Party has Caslypso Louie and there is no one on the Pubbie side to remotely compete with him.
Worse yet, there is absolutely not one single person on the Pubbie side who can begin to be compared to Rev. Wright.
What will we do! It is so unfair!
/snark off
And a Slut worthy of the Dirtball that is her HINO,
John Conyers! YUK! How can any Good American
Claim to be a Demorat today?
” I’m gonna guess that in their home they have seperate bedrooms, and have for some time.”
Do you think they have separate freezers for their loot?
"I'm o let you finish but everybody knows i didn't do nothin' don't everybody else do ... besides, a hacksaw blade won't fit in a cupcake.
“I’m gonna guess that in their home they have seperate bedrooms, and have for some time.”
John Conyers is an expensive suit wrapped around a small box of rocks.
What a strange world we live in, when the wife of the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is sentenced to jail for bribes she took as a City Councilwoman.
When the head of the Ways and Means Committee is under investigation for not paying his taxes.
When the most Senior black member of the House is charged with ethics violation.Waters’ husband is a stockholder and former director of OneUnited Bank and the bank’s executives were major contributors to her campaigns. In September 2008, Waters arranged meetings between U.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash. It had been heavily invested in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and its capital was “all but wiped out” after the U.S. government took them over. The bank received $12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money.[38][39] The matter is currently being investigated by the House Ethics Committee
When another member of the CBC is under investigation for giving scholarships to her family in violation of ethics rules.
When Cynhia McKinney slapped a Capitol police Officer.
When Cold cash Jefferson kept bribe money in his freezer.
Do we see a pattern here? Are these the people we want running our country?
100% correct. In our history Michigan's Most Evil do not get lambasted by The Democrat Crime Syndicate OR the spineless republicans. In addition Kwame Kilpatrick gets sweetheart loans from prominent businessmen Penske, Karmanos and Gilbert. The tentacles of evil Kilpatrick-Conyers-Bobby Ferguson-etc., etc. stretch far and wide. The damage done by criminals is incalculable. The foundations of the republic are destabilized.
He must have made an emeny for life (Monica) but what about John? Enemy or friend?
She also said “black people cannot be racist”
“Monica, don’t worry with our newly elected reps come November we will make every effort possible to make sure you have company.”
In a perfect world but it won’t happen.
How many will receive pardons from BO?
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