Ken Berwitz

John Conyers is a long-time congressperson from Detroit.  He is also as dirty as sludge, and has a wife to match.

Want proof?  Read this excerpt from an article in the Detroit Free Press:

Conyers guilty in bribery case

BY JIM SCHAEFER, BEN SCHMITT, TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA and CASSANDRA SPRATLING • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 27, 2009

The federal trap finally snapped Friday on Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, ending a year of speculation about her role in the Synagro sludge contract scandal.

The normally boisterous Conyers, 44, appeared in U.S. District Court to quietly plead guilty to a bribery conspiracy charge during a brief hearing.

Conyers, the wife of powerful U.S. Rep. John Conyers, left the courtroom on personal bond without commenting.

In a few short weeks, Conyers, 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 for a $1.2-billion-plus sludge treatment contract.

She was president of the council during Ken Cockrel Jr.'s mayoral regime from September through May. Now, she faces up to five years in prison for taking cash-stuffed envelopes at a city recreation center and in a McDonald's parking lot.

It was unclear Friday whether Conyers would stay in office until sentenced or quit before the August primary. No sentencing date has been set.

Councilwoman's fire gone as she quietly pleads guilty

Conyers, known for her last name and her fiery outbursts, faced the likely demise of her stormy first term in a subdued way Friday, admitting to a federal judge in a barely audible voice that she sold her vote on city business deals.

Her guilty plea to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bribery ended months of whispers that the council president pro tem was a major target of an ongoing public corruption investigation. She admitted taking at least $6,000 from Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson to change her vote in favor of a $1.2-billion sludge disposal contract in 2007.

Though she has not been sentenced, her crime can carry up to five years in prison.

Federal prosecutors withheld many details of the evidence against her but singled out her swing vote in November 2007 to approve the sludge contract with Synagro Technologies, which employed Jackson.

Her plea agreement states Conyers also took money in connection with her former appointed position on the city's General Retirement System, but it gives no specifics. Federal agents have subpoenaed records from the pension fund.

Conyers and his wife have been at the heart of ongoing scandals in Detroit for years.  For a partial look at what the Conyers' are about read this two year old article from sweetness-light.com and see for yourself.  You will be appalled.

If Conyers were a Republican instead of a Democrat, there is little doubt that he would be out of office and in jail today.  And his wife would not have had the opportunities for corruption she was so willing to take advantage of.

But that is the reality of USA politics in this day and age.  Most mainstream media are so deeply partisan that I despair they will ever find the way to what they're supposed to be - objective, neutral journalists.