This country is in good hands....

Monica Conyers, you know, wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -- the committee charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, administrative agencies and Federal law enforcement entities -- is pleading poverty to get the court to pay for her appeal.

She was convicted and was sentenced to three years in prison. She asked for and got a federal judge to declare her indigent and appoint an attorney to handle her appeal on bribery charges. She lives in a $334,000 house near the Detroit Golf Club. The Detroit News, however, found that she has a rental house in her name at 3351 Charlevoix that is in a foreclosure auction. The Wayne County Treasurer filed on the home on March 26, claiming she owes $241.58 from her 2008 taxes and owes another $642.49 from 2009.

You can see the house on Google maps. It is, conspicuously, the only house on the block with a black SUV in front of it and junk on the front porch. John, however, is busy making law for the rest of us.
March 27 post

UPDATE (April 8) - Federal prosecutors said that Conyers waived her appeal rights in a plea agreement she signed last June. So far, She has filed a notice of appeal but not an appeal brief.

UPDATE (April 8) - Taking a book out of Conyers' page, Mary Waters, accused along with Sam Riddle, Conyers former Chief of Staff, says she's broke and wants the court to pay her attorney costs. iddle and Waters are accused of bribing a  Southfield City Councilman. . Riddle also claims to be broke as the Detroit News gives him fawning star treatment.