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.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer uh... beeyotch!
There IS one common thread running through all this criminal conduct, however...
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Spot on! And Detroit’s my hometown.
I’ve had some inside sources. My wife’s from Milford.
Two down. That lousy Detroit mayor went to jail too.
Expectations of entitlement to various ‘privileges’ will only amount to having another thing coming.
People like Monica Conyers have that to look forward to but they won’t see it because they’re too close to it and because they’re liberal extremists.
Three...”Freezer” Wm Jefferson (Whose brother, his campaign manager, got his training in Chicago)
John Conyers is probably moving in the pole dancers as we type.
When she gets out, she’ll be re-elected. Such is the perversity of modern America.
How is it that the husband got out of paying his wife’s legal bills?
Just a thought: If they pay joint taxes, did they both pay taxes on the bribe money? Is he in trouble with the IRS now...There IS a tip line you can turn him in.
That’s so sweet. He can visit on the weekends from DC. OOPS! That is, if he doesn’t adopt Rev. Al’s ways!!
Is she near enough to DC to play golf with”The Anointed One”?
John Conyers (D-Criminal) did not even show up for his nasty-ass wife’s sentencing hearing.
Ain’t love grand?
Rot in jail!
Politicians doing what they do best. Why else would someone spend $10mil.+ of their own money for a $200K/yr. job (i.e. Sen Cantwell WA) ? Also, with income like that how could this person be eligible for a public defender ?
I remember how hard her husband work to send Dubya or anyone from his administration to jail because of Iraq war. Karma bites...
This picture needed a BARF ALERT!!!
“Did you commit these crimes, Mrs. Conyers?”
“Oh yes I di’id!”
“You’re hereby sentenced to jail.”
“Oh no I di’int!”
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