Monica Conyers plea deal not expected in corruption case today

by amyjudd | June 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm

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Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers did attend a council meeting today but it is not expected that she will enter a plea deal today in the City Hall corruption case.

Two different sources said that she would not issue the deal.

Conyers was all business at the meeting in which council members discussed strip club-related ordinances.

She said the city can’t make strip clubs go away, just like the media. “We can’t make them go away," she said. "They don’t have the right to harass us, but they have the right to be here.”

Conyers left the meeting upbeat but refused to answer questions about City Hall, but she did answer questions about the strip club.
She was offered a plea deal and there are currently talks with prosecutors to secure that.

The development came one day after the U.S. Attorney's Office revealed that two key figures in a sludge-disposal deal admitted paying Conyers thousands of dollars in bribes to secure her support for a $1.2-billion city contract with Synagro Technologies. Conyers, who initially opposed the 2007 deal, switched her position as the council voted 5-4 to let Synagro dispose of wastewater sludge.

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