{"id":12014,"date":"2009-06-26T12:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:41:52","slug":"conyers-pleads-guilty-to-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12014","title":{"rendered":"Conyers pleads guilty to bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Conyers, the wife of John Conyers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/26\/monica-conyers-pleads-guilty-taking-bribes\/?feat=home_cube_position1\">neither of whom belong to a political party<\/a>, apparently, pleaded guilty to charges that she engaged in bribery as a member of the Detroit city council this morning;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The terms of the plea agreement were not immediately available, but had been negotiated between prosecutors and Mrs. Conyers&#8217; lawyers for more than a week. <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Conyers had been under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes from a consultant in connection with a City Council vote to approve a $1.2 billion sludge hauling contract. <\/p>\n<p>The consultant, Rayford W. Jackson, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a city official in connection with the contract to Houston-based Synagro Technologies Inc. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now this should over shadow an errant husband&#8217;s scandal, shouldn&#8217;t it? Oh, that&#8217;s right &#8211; we expect Democrats to be thieves and crooks. I forgot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11968\">that discussion we had yesterday <\/a>for a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Conyers, the wife of John Conyers, neither of whom belong to a political party, apparently, &hellip; <a title=\"Conyers pleads guilty to bribery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12014\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conyers pleads guilty to bribery<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-media","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}