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Conyers wanted cash for shopping, developer says at Riddle trial (Lansing State Journal)


Published:Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:02:10 GMT 
DETROIT - The Sam Riddle federal extortion trial opened today with the president of a Detroit developing company testifying about how former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers shook him down for cash payments so she could go shopping, take trips and even pay her childs tuition. Melvin Washington, president of the Phoenix Group, told jurors that Conyers once shocked him when she ......

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