Detroit Strip Clubs: Monica Conyers is to be sentenced on Dec. 1
October 28, 2009 at 7:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsConyers, who was the council’s president pro tem, went from one of Detroit’s most politically powerful and mercurial women to an admitted felon in a pay-to-play scheme involving a $1.2-billion sludge treatment contract.
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is to issue the sentencing. Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, faces up to 5 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Monica Conyers’ former aide, Sam Riddle, who also is ensnared in the Synagro scandal, filed a request to hire former federal Prosecutor Richard Convertino as his lawyer. Riddle had been represented by attorney David Steingold.
Federal authorities allege Riddle spread bribes to help a pawnshop in Southfield, and hand-delivered the cash that bought Conyers’ vote on the Synagro contract. It was Riddle, agents said, who acted as fixer for a restaurant owner, a strip club agent and a real estate developer to buy influence in Detroit.
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