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Monica Conyers, wife of Rep. John Conyers Jr., will be teamed with “a tax-funded public defender to help her appeal the three-year sentence she received last week for bribery conspiracy,” after a Detroit judge found she was “indigent”: (more)

An ugly page in Michigan politics came to an end this afternoon when a federal judge sentenced former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers to 37 months in prison for her role in a city bribery scandal. Conyers, the wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, did not go quietly as she attempted to rescind her guilty plea at the last moment and claimed to have taped conversations that would exonerate her. (more)

Reports that the FBI is preparing to file new corruption charges against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father shocked the Michigan political establishment over the weekend and may prove damaging to Democratic candidates facing a hostile electoral climate this fall. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — Given a full four-year term to turn around their city by voters weary of political scandal and saddled with an economy in shambles, Mayor Dave Bing pledged Friday to restore Detroit residents’ shaken confidence in their leaders. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit City Council, which has been criticized for bickering and scrutinized by federal authorities investigating city contracts, delivered on a promise of more professionalism in its first meeting of 2010. (more)