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Monica conyers is in custody at a federal prison camp in West Virginia.

Doctor Detroit wrote:Do you think Monica ever gets any? I mean, not from her gay husband, obviously, but from somewhere? She's not a horrible looking woman, and a lady has needs, after all. I think Heywood once said he would.

Conyers, federal inmate No. 43693-039...

Doctor Detroit wrote:Do you think Monica ever gets any? I mean, not from her gay husband, obviously, but from somewhere? She's not a horrible looking woman, and a lady has needs, after all. I think Heywood once said he would.

The combative and ever-defiant Monica Conyers has moved forward with her mission to have her guilty plea withdrawn, officially laying out her case for a federal appellate court.

In a motion filed late Monday with the US. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Conyers' attorney, Douglas Mullkoff, argued that a lower federal court wrongfully denied his client the opportunity -- and repeatedly ignored her requests -- to withdraw her guilty plea in a bribery scandal that landed her in prison.

"… the district court improperly applied the law and used an erroneous legal standard in denying the motion. That error rises to the level of an abuse of discretion. This Court should have no difficulty coming to that conclusion," Mullkoff wrote in his brief.

Conyers' brief explaining the basis of her appeal was due today.

http://www.freep.com/article/20101019/N ... z12nWq8Min

Despite graduating from law school — she bragged about being the only council member with a law degree — and marrying U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, she was inexperienced with the criminal justice system, according to the brief.

"That inexperience coupled with the intense public scrutiny of the matter caused her to momentarily surrender to the pressure to plead," her lawyer Douglas R. Mullkoff wrote in the appeal brief filed Monday.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101019/MET ... z12oaqWUCt

Mulligan wrote:I like the News' version because it mocks her legal background.

Despite graduating from law school — she bragged about being the only council member with a law degree — and marrying U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, she was inexperienced with the criminal justice system, according to the brief.

"That inexperience coupled with the intense public scrutiny of the matter caused her to momentarily surrender to the pressure to plead," her lawyer Douglas R. Mullkoff wrote in the appeal brief filed Monday.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101019/MET ... z12oaqWUCt

Monica Conyers wrote:

Mulligan wrote:I like the News' version because it mocks her legal background.

Despite graduating from law school — she bragged about being the only council member with a law degree — and marrying U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, she was inexperienced with the criminal justice system, according to the brief.

"That inexperience coupled with the intense public scrutiny of the matter caused her to momentarily surrender to the pressure to plead," her lawyer Douglas R. Mullkoff wrote in the appeal brief filed Monday.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101019/MET ... z12oaqWUCt

If you're not praying for me, you're part of the problem.

Mulligan wrote:I like the News' version because it mocks her legal background.

Despite graduating from law school — she bragged about being the only council member with a law degree — and marrying U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, she was inexperienced with the criminal justice system, according to the brief.

"That inexperience coupled with the intense public scrutiny of the matter caused her to momentarily surrender to the pressure to plead," her lawyer Douglas R. Mullkoff wrote in the appeal brief filed Monday.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101019/MET ... z12oaqWUCt

Some call it Camp Cupcake, but Alderson Federal Prison is no cakewalk, ex-Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers says.

The incarcerated wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers wrote a three-page letter to The Detroit News saying she's keeping her spirits up, prays for the family of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, loves Detroit and hates prison chow.

"It's over-crowded and they barely have food to feed the people," Conyers wrote in the Jan. 12 letter. "The portions are smaller and no seconds when it's something good. Most of the women are here for drugs!"

The chase
Conyers is now known as federal inmate No. 43693-039 after pleading guilty to accepting $6,000 in bribes for switching her vote on a $1.2 billion sludge contract. But she still signs her correspondence "Councilwoman Monica."

In September, she left her home overlooking the Detroit Golf Club for Alderson, a minimum-security prison in West Virginia overlooking the Alleghany Mountains.

Unlike her former top aide, Sam Riddle, who this month was transferred to the medium-security Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to serve time for bribery, Conyers is doing her bit at a minimum-security prison that looks like a prep school.

Dubbed "Camp Cupcake" for its reputation as one of the cushiest correctional facilities, the 1,128-female inmate facility offers washers, dryers and curling irons; access to pedicures and manicures and windows that open. It also lacks what is standard in most lockups — a razor-wire fence.

"It's not a lot to do here. The main place of employment closed down," wrote Conyers. "I keep busy by knitting, crocheting and (beading) going to church. I am continuing my religious studies on my own. Other than that, it's mainly recreation choices because classes are filled."

But life isn't all Scripture and yarn. Conyers wrote that she yearns for Detroit. Her earliest possible release is May 16, 2013.

"As for me and my family, we are well and they visit often. But it is cold now and snowing so I told them to come back when the weather changes. Safety reasons!" Conyers wrote from the prison that it is an eight-hour drive from Detroit.

"Please tell the Detroiters, I miss helping them and I love them. They have sent me numerous letters and books to read, cards also."

Conyers' letter, written in a curlicue cursive, also displays a fondness for punctuation often deployed by adolescents and the text-message set.

"By the way, how was the auto show, did it rain or snow on the people? (SMH) LOL!" wrote Conyers.

The line is an apparent swipe at her foes during the messy fight over Cobo Center who claimed its roof leaks. The acronyms are teen-speak for "shaking my head" and "laughing out loud."

Conyers didn't respond to a letter that asked more probing questions and her attorney, Douglas Mullkoff, denied a request for an interview. But she could be talking soon.

A judge on Wednesday ordered taxpayers to foot the bill for hotel and travel for Mullkoff next week for a deposition in a case involving her time on the pension board.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110311/MET ... /Conyers--‘No-seconds’-at-Camp-Cupcake#ixzz1GHvGQxRD

City lawyers are proposing a $2.95 million settlement to a downtown strip club that sued on claims the City Council illegally blocked a license transfer after operators were shaken down for a bribe.

The council voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar's license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown of topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers' vote.

They refused, she voted against the transfer, and Riddle has denied the allegations.

The bar's owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Larry Flynt-themed Hustler strip club.

The Zoo Bar's owners already successfully challenged the city's strip club rules, prompting another rewrite. The settlement would end a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club's Greektown property illegally by denying the transfer.

"It's up to the City Council now," said Brad Shafer, a lawyer for the Zoo Bar. "We are ready to go to trial. If the City Council doesn't want to settle, then that's fine."

The council received the settlement recommendation today but members referred it to a committee without discussion. The full council may vote on a settlement as soon as Tuesday.


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Andy wrote:Thanks bitch.

City lawyers are proposing a $2.95 million settlement to a downtown strip club that sued on claims the City Council illegally blocked a license transfer after operators were shaken down for a bribe.

The council voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar's license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown of topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers' vote.

They refused, she voted against the transfer, and Riddle has denied the allegations.

The bar's owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Larry Flynt-themed Hustler strip club.

The Zoo Bar's owners already successfully challenged the city's strip club rules, prompting another rewrite. The settlement would end a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club's Greektown property illegally by denying the transfer.

"It's up to the City Council now," said Brad Shafer, a lawyer for the Zoo Bar. "We are ready to go to trial. If the City Council doesn't want to settle, then that's fine."

The council received the settlement recommendation today but members referred it to a committee without discussion. The full council may vote on a settlement as soon as Tuesday.


From The Detroit News: .95M-to-settle-suit#ixzz1Rua7PULv">http://detnews.com/article/20110712/MET ... z1Rua7PULv

Ya Mar wrote:

Andy wrote:Thanks bitch.

City lawyers are proposing a $2.95 million settlement to a downtown strip club that sued on claims the City Council illegally blocked a license transfer after operators were shaken down for a bribe.

The council voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar's license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown of topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers' vote.

They refused, she voted against the transfer, and Riddle has denied the allegations.

The bar's owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Larry Flynt-themed Hustler strip club.

The Zoo Bar's owners already successfully challenged the city's strip club rules, prompting another rewrite. The settlement would end a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club's Greektown property illegally by denying the transfer.

"It's up to the City Council now," said Brad Shafer, a lawyer for the Zoo Bar. "We are ready to go to trial. If the City Council doesn't want to settle, then that's fine."

The council received the settlement recommendation today but members referred it to a committee without discussion. The full council may vote on a settlement as soon as Tuesday.


From The Detroit News: .95M-to-settle-suit#ixzz1Rua7PULv">http://detnews.com/article/20110712/MET ... z1Rua7PULv

I am pretty certain that anybody who had anything not denied in front of council - with Monica voting against - could and will bring a similar lawsuit.

Monica Conyers wrote:

Ya Mar wrote:

Andy wrote:Thanks bitch.

City lawyers are proposing a $2.95 million settlement to a downtown strip club that sued on claims the City Council illegally blocked a license transfer after operators were shaken down for a bribe.

The council voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar's license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown of topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers' vote.

They refused, she voted against the transfer, and Riddle has denied the allegations.

The bar's owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Larry Flynt-themed Hustler strip club.

The Zoo Bar's owners already successfully challenged the city's strip club rules, prompting another rewrite. The settlement would end a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club's Greektown property illegally by denying the transfer.

"It's up to the City Council now," said Brad Shafer, a lawyer for the Zoo Bar. "We are ready to go to trial. If the City Council doesn't want to settle, then that's fine."

The council received the settlement recommendation today but members referred it to a committee without discussion. The full council may vote on a settlement as soon as Tuesday.


From The Detroit News: .95M-to-settle-suit#ixzz1Rua7PULv">http://detnews.com/article/20110712/MET ... z1Rua7PULv

I am pretty certain that anybody who had anything not denied in front of council - with Monica voting against - could and will bring a similar lawsuit.

You people are such haters. You should be praying for me.

Last Updated: July 12. 2011 12:52PM .Detroit may pay strip club $2.95M to settle suit
Christine MacDonald/ The Detroit News
Detroit —City lawyers are proposing a $2.95 million settlement to a downtown strip club that sued on claims the City Council illegally blocked a license transfer after operators were shaken down for a bribe.

The council voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar's license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown of topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant .

Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers' vote. They refused, she voted against the transfer, and Riddle has denied the allegations.

The bar's owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Larry Flynt-themed Hustler strip club.

The Zoo Bar's owners already successfully challenged the city's strip club rules, prompting another rewrite. The settlement would end a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club's Greektown property illegally by denying the transfer.

"It's up to the City Council now," said Brad Shafer, a lawyer for the Zoo Bar. "We are ready to go to trial. If the City Council doesn't want to settle, then that's fine."

The council received the settlement recommendation today but members referred it to a committee without discussion. The full council may vote on a settlement as soon as Tuesday.