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Monica Conyers, chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), is reportedly preparing to accept a plea agreement. (AP/Detroit
Free Press) Monica Conyers, chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), has reportedly been offered a plea agreement in an
ongoing federal corruption probe in the Motor City. The case involves Raymond W. Jackson, a Detroit businessman who pleaded guilty Monday to giving more than $6,000 to an unnamed City
Council member in connection with a $1.2 billion sewage contract. Monica Conyers was not named in Jackson’s plea deal — the document makes reference only to “Council Member A” — but the
Detroit News, citing unnamed sources, reported on Tuesday that she is prepared to accept a plea deal in the case. Conyers switched her vote on the sewage contract prior to a City Council
vote on the issue in 2007, and the Justice Department has been investigating the circumstances surrounding the episode. Jackson is the second person to plead guilty in the case so far. A
call to Conyers’ lawyers seeking comment was not returned. _Correction: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized a Detroit News story Monica Conyers. While the Detroit News
reported that Conyers has been offered a plea deal by prosecutors, it did not say that she was preparing to accept it._
