Culture of corruption, Conyers edition
The walls are closing in on Rep. John Conyers’ wife. Maybe he should spend less time chasing his Bush impeachment pipe dream and pay attention to home.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and City Council President Monica Conyers are the major figures cited in a sludge-hauling executive’s account of greed and bribery in the Synagro scandal, sources confirmed Tuesday to the Free Press. The three have not been charged with wrongdoing in the case.
Their names — and others — emerged with additional details about the government’s investigation into city corruption.
The Free Press has learned that James Rosendall, the former Synagro Technologies vice president who pleaded guilty to bribery Monday, has been questioned about his contacts with other executives at Houston-based Synagro.
FBI agents recorded one Synagro official on a phone call with Rosendall discussing Rosendall’s efforts to win the $1.2-billion contract in Detroit, one source said, adding that executive has since been suspended by Synagro.
Rosendall, 44, of Grand Rapids is the government’s star witness in the Synagro probe and has provided the FBI with little, if any, direct evidence that cash was funneled to Kwame Kilpatrick, according to sources familiar with the case.
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And more on the feds upping pressure on Detroit corruptocrats:
Documents filed in the Rosendall case show former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father, business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, are among those under investigation in connection with a contract that pays Synagro about $47 million a year to haul and treat the city’s sewage sludge.
Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers also is under investigation in connection with the sludge contract, people familiar with the investigation said.
Appearances before a federal grand jury in Detroit that has been investigating City Hall corruption are scheduled well into February, people familiar with the investigation said.
The long-running and wide-ranging investigation involves the Synagro deal and contracts at Cobo Center and other city departments.
It’s likely indictments are still weeks away, Henning said.
The Detroit City Council approved the contract by a 5-4 vote in the fall of 2007.
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Flashback: Monica Conyers, unhinged…
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We need to bring back flogging in the public square for any politician caught cheating the taxpayer.
Go with what you know!
No justice no peace. HAHAHAHAHA… There are a lot of Democrats who need to be in jail right now. Subprimegate is just the tip of the iceberg. I’d like to see them all frog-marched to prison, singing “Zippity Do Dah” all the way. “Mister Bluebird’s on my shoulder….”
Sigh, welcome to Michigan and Detroit politics.
Apparently,(sadly) aspiring Detroit political types take lessons in politics in Chicago, a the bottom of the class run for office!
They never learn!
Is there anything more titillating? Sludge and greed – I’m breaking into a cold sweat now…
Sounds like the sh*t’s about hit the fan.
And the ‘crappy’ jokes will start in
3…2…1…
Based on Holder’s and Geithner’s backgrounds, I would say Monica is a shoe-in as the next Secretary of Labor. What with the crisis in our economy and soaring unemployment, she seems too important to not confirm despite some minor mistakes in her past.
pres bush made her do it. it’s all his fault. let’s impeach him. oh he’s gone. well let’s charge him with war crimes for going to war in the middle east after we gave him a vote on that issue. oh well which one of you congressional aids picked up my senility medicine? and did you take my kids to school on your way? and did you do my taxes? and did you give my wife a massage? and…..
Do da name Ruby Begonia ring a bell ?
I have run out of fingers and toes counting up the democons that have been indited on criminal charges while in government office. And as my racist blood shouts out, most of them were afro-americans. There are honkies who are just as guilty too. Welcome to the age of “Wrong is right and right is wrong” There will no dissidence people. I also want to thank Neil Cavuto for stealing my blog entry from Michelle Malkin’s site about Congress spending all of our money because the world is gonna end in 2012. What no footnote Neil?
You forgot to also mention how Bush distracted us so much it allowed the Germans to bomb Pearl Harbor.
I don’t know. Have you seen his wife?
Ah yes, the nuclear bombing of pearl harbor that started world war one against stalin. All bushes fault.
/sarc.
Wasn’t that broadcast live on TV?
I remember watching Katie tell us about it on the evening news.
Man general Lee’s move across the yalu river was smooth when he traped the spanish at chosen. That was classic liberal reporting there.
p.s To the liberals reading, all the above events could never have happened all at once because they happened over vastly different times and locations. They have these things called history books that will tell you the real story. You can find them in a big building called a library. No, LIBRARY not joes adult book store. I know this will be confusing since John Stewart from tha daily show is NOT in them, but just try it.
It won’t hurt. Much.
This is all just a trick by “The Man” to try to derail John’s efforts to obtain reparations for slavery and discrimination that continues TO THIS DAY !
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?bill=12489961
About This Legislation:
1/6/2009–Introduced. Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act – Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.
Pearl Harbor? oh. That’s very different
And all this time I thought Bush strong armed Pope Urban II with threats of cutting off aid and used false intelligence data to start the crusades. I could have sworn I saw lgm posting “BUSH LIED! SELJUK TURKS DIED!” and “SIGUROR JORSALAFARI THE FIRST OF NORWAY IS JUST A TOOL!”
What’s the old saying about pointing a finger at someone…there are always three pointing back at you?
The Democrat Party leadership…leading the party of distraction, distortion, corruption, obfuscation, and prevarication!
Did I leave anything out?
Blaming Democrats for corruption in Washington is like blaming them for our huge budget deficit. Then you look at the score: who added most to the deficit (cutting taxes, invading Iraq, drug benefit) and who had the most corrupt Congressmen in the past decade?
Republicans: you’re in a glass house.
I’m thinking Monica is of the ‘Wanda Sykes comedy school’ of elected office …………………..
Semper Fi’
DM
No question about the bipartisan nature of political corruption. However, the “delta” is in the response to the corruption by their parties, their voters, and the media.
Democrats Conyers, Rangel, Dodd, Franken, Geithner, Hastings, Kennedy, Murtha, Holder, etc. continue to serve. The most recent twist by their supporters and te media is that their “mistakes” are now considered to be resume enhancing.
Conversely, Republicans Craig, Gingrich, Stevens, Livingston, etc. are all out of office either through resignation or voted out by the Republicans in their district.
The stench of corruption gets cut out by Republicans; it is celebrated by Democrats, because power trumps principle in their world.
Chicago…Detroit…Congress…
“You will never find a more wretched hive of
scum and villainysludge and greed”lgm(legally gone mad), always good to see you show up with your humor…just happens today your timing perfect.
Now let’s glance over your accusations of Republican follies.
1. Bush’s tax cut brought more money into the Treasury than previous, so your wrong on that point.
2. Invading Iraq, congressional approval over overwhelmingly bipartisan(dumbs agreed, duh).
3. Drug benefit were you referring to part D Medicare drug program or open boarders? In either case, the bill passed by unanimous vote in both houses of congress…and lack of closing the boarder shows the ineptnous of both parties to control our sovereignty.
Nice try though…delve into your research material(kos or huffington) again and come back with some new material and we can scrutinize again and show it ’s ALL Bush’s fault.
Okay lets take that exactly the way you meant it. Who is about to spend more than those three combined? And where are thry getting the money from?
By what standard? My standard is the party that has the most corrupt officals STILL SERVING. That would be the dems.
poor choice of words…should be overwhelmingly in place of unanimous, my apologies.
I can speak for one conservative when I say that the corrupt should be removed regardless of party affiliation.
lgm, will you be a liberal that will speak to the same? Or would you rather continue with the partisan spin on “who is worse”? Even if we agreed with you, does that mean that nothing should be done about corrupt democrats?
but but but how can this be? They told us the Republicans were the party of corruption. The party of our glorious and sublime president is pure and beautiful! Isn’t it?
Isn’t it?
You’re #&%&$*@^$(# it is, you dumb @&^%$#*^$& ! ! !
Patty Blagojevich
Gawd! That woman is a witch, with a capital “B.”
The president of the council was orderly and respectful. She was disorderly and disrespectful. I would have called for a recess and had the police take her to her car to investigate if she had parked properly. With her gone, they could get some real work done.
Do it’Baybahy…Do it
Hill.Air.EEE.us.
John Conyers seems to be pinning his future hopes of glory on getting his sons into high places. He’s spending the lion’s share of his congressional coin on educating his two sons: he has no assets to speak of, yet he’s sending his sons to one of the most pricey private schools in Michigan. Monica Conyer’s website contains some interesting pics. She put herself and her sons in the Oval Office driver’s seat when Clinton ruled the roost. It is fitting that sludge is the item that could finally bring them back down to earth.
John Conyers seems to be pinning his hopes of future glory on getting his sons into high places. He’s spending the lion’s share of his congressional coin on educating his two sons: he has no assets to speak of, yet he’s sending his sons to one of the most pricey private schools in Michigan. Monica Conyer’s website contains some interesting pics. She put herself and her sons in the Oval Office driver’s seat when Clinton ruled the roost. It is fitting that sludge is the item that could finally bring them back down to earth.