Conyers Apologizes but Blasts Ex-aide

ewiley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:25 +0000

Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, who has admitted to a felony count of taking bribes, went to the airwaves this week to beg forgiveness from residents of the Motor City. “To all of the residents of the city of Detroit, if I disappointed you, I apologize,” she said, declining to go into detail about the circumstances of her case. “I don’t want to get my judge mad at me, and I don’t want to go to jail,” she explained. But that wasn’t Conyers’ only message to the public. “If I was smart, I would have listened to my husband and he never would have worked for me,” an angry Conyers said of her former chief of staff, Sam Riddle. “But sometimes we as women don’t listen to our husbands.” She is married to U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Her first public comments since pleading guilty last Friday to a bribery charge, Monica Conyers delivered her comments to WHPR-TV (Channel 33) in Detroit.

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Conyers Apologizes but Blasts Ex-aide