The wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) has plead guilty to conspiring to commit bribery and faces five years in prison for the crime.
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, “The defendant now stands convicted.”…
She has long been under suspicion in the Synagro bribery probe, not least because she had been a vocal opponent of the contract before suddenly switching her sentiments. She became the deciding voice in the city council’s 5-4 vote to approve the sludge-hauling deal in November 2007…
The federal plea document released today cites two instances in late 2007, in the days surrounding the approval of the now-infamous Synagro Technologies sludge-hauling contract, when Conyers accepted cash bribes from a Synagro consultant.
by Stephan Tawney on Fri, Jun 26, 2009