while the taxpayers and families in the state pay for decades as the result of these types of corrupt practices. (Don't think for a second this was the only one)  All of them raising the cost of government doing business, and all them taking the ability of Detroit to recover that much further into the future.. if at all possible.

But I must ask again..  How much of John Conyers wife's outlaw activities were purposefully ignored by the lawmaker?  It seems hard to believe he was not aware of a little extra cash in the kitty..   He must have known. (ahem.. which would make him an accessory)

But then again.. in all fairness, its not like he could pay attention to anything at all however.  Given the statement about bothering to read legislation before passing it, perhaps he has in fact built a level of plausible deniability.

At a National Press Club luncheon, Conyers said, "I love these members, they get up and say, `Read the bill.' What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" That, from the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.