classicman • Jun 26, 2009 1:57 pm
DETROIT (AP) City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company.
Conyers, a political unknown who won her council seat in 2005 largely on her husband's name, admitted in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery, responding quietly to questions from Judge Avern Cohn.
She faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she's sentenced.
The fiery 44-year-old Conyers left court without commenting.
Her lawyer, Steve Fishman, said he will ask Cohn to impose a sentence that does not include prison time.
Rep. John Conyers, the 80-year-old chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who prosecutors said knew nothing of the bribery, declined to answer a reporter's questions as he walked to the House floor for a vote Friday morning. "I have no comment whatever," he said.
Only 36 years difference in age.
As such a long-term politician and pillar of the community I'm sure her husband knew nothing about any of this. :eyebrow: