-
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers' guilty plea to a federal charge of accepting bribes, and subsequent resignation from council, effective July 6. There seemed a distinct possibility that council could be anticlimactic in the wake...
-
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Today Monica Conyers Photograph was taken down at The City Coucil's chambers. A grim picture for one soon to be former city leader...Creating more controversy for the Detroit city council...And signs of her, already removed from city hall. The...
-
News Source: The Washington Times
| 5 months ago
Rep. John Conyers Jr. reversed his opposition to a controversial hazardous waste project in his district, writing a letter of support to the federal government with the help of his wife, former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers, whose aide...
-
News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Monica Conyers is still hosting her weekly TV talk show, although she admits she'll have to change its title from "Ask the Councilwoman with Monica Conyers." Conyers didn't discuss her guilty plea last week to a bribery conspiracy charge, or her...
-
News Source: MarketWatch
| 5 months ago
Mozart's comic opera, "Cosi fan tutte," makes fun of how fickle women can be, and ultimately unfaithful. "Thus do they all" (using the feminine plural of all to specify women) is how the title translates for this story of two young women who fail the...
-
News Source: Tulsa World
| 5 months ago
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., forfeits her $85,000-a-year Detroit City Council seat three days after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery. AP) — Just months after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to oust former...
-
News Source: The Journal Gazette
| 5 months ago
Michael Jacksons family moved Monday to take control of his personal and financial affairs, winning temporary custody of his three children and asking a judge to name his mother as administrator of his estate. In documents filed in Superior Court,...
-
News Source: The Hill
| 5 months ago
Conyers will leave the council effective next Monday after pleading guilty to charges that she sold her vote on a recycling contract. Conyers had hoped to keep her seat, but Monday morning a majority of the council's other members said they would...
-
News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers, convicted of accepting a bribe, has resigned her seat, effective July 6. A member of Conyers' staff delivered the two-sentence resignation letter to Deputy City Clerk Vivian Hudson, the Detroit...
-
News Source: Sify News
| 5 months ago
City Councilwoman Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to bribery charges Friday, becoming the latest Detroit politician taken down by scandal and marking a victory for federal prosecutors in their nearly two-year investigation into city corruption. Conyers,...