Detroit, MICHIGAN

SENTENCING for Monica Conyers, the 44-year-old wife of Congressman John Conyers, 80, will be delayed until January 15.

Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to bribery charges in connection with the Synagro sludge scandal and Detroit City Hall investigation. She admitted taking at least $6,000 from Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson among other undisclosed amounts to change her vote in favor of the Synagro contract in 2007.

She resigned from the Detroit City Council in June. She made $85,000-per-year at the post. First elected in 2005, she was interim president of the council as the time of her arrest. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox also had warned he would take court action against Conyers if she refused to resign by Tuesday.

She married John Conyers in 1990 when she was 25 and he was 61. On April 2009, one day after denying the relation, Conyers admitted she helped her brother, Reggie Esters, a convicted felon, obtain a city job that was originally to last four months, but was extended to two years, ending only when Esters' absenteeism became an issue. He had a long rap sheet. He has been arrested at least 14 times since 1988. In 1990, he was charged with first-degree murder but was acquitted after a jury trial. I About the time he was fired, Esters was charged with 10 felony counts related to his brandishing a shotgun at two people in Detroit. He pleaded guilty and was to have been sentenced in April.

Her booking photo is from the U.S. Marshal's Service.
John Conyers is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.