SCLC Rip Off

ATLANTA — As reported by Associated Press, four months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter was elected president of the civil rights group he co-founded, the organization is in a tailspin and she is silent on why she hasn't taken the helm.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has been fractured by infighting and a federal investigation. Agents recently raided the Ohio chapter's headquarters and the home of the SCLC's national chairman, who faces accusations of financial mismanagement. In Georgia, Fulton County prosecutors have also launched a formal investigation into the Atlanta-based organization's financial affairs.

Through it all, the Rev. Bernice King — who was elected SCLC president Oct. 29 — has said nothing. She has yet to take over, and the interim president she is replacing has already left.

With no one to speak on the group's behalf, observers say the long-declining SCLC is weaker than ever.

"J. Edgar Hoover is in his grave, shouting and celebrating," said Tyrone Brooks, a Georgia state representative and longtime SCLC member, invoking the name of the FBI director who kept tabs on the SCLC for years. "The organization he tried to destroy is now being destroyed by the very people who claim to love it and love the legacy of Dr. King."

Amid the turmoil, the management functions continue to limp along. Read More HERE

Thanks SCLC Board for Ripping Us off!

The Monica Conyers Rip Off

Detriot - Monica Conyers Sentenced to 37 months in prison

No Class, Monica Conyers who would rather debate school children and stuff money in her pockets is going to jail.



In November 2007 Conyers cast the decisive vote in favor of granting a $1.2 billion waste disposal contract to Texas-based firm Synagro Technologies, Inc. (Synagro). The guilty plea offered by Conyers confirms FBI suspicions that she switched from a “no” to a “yes” vote only after receiving at least $6,000 in bribes from Synagro.

Monica Conyers' booking photo. (U.S. Marshal's Service)

Conyers resigned amid pressure from several city council colleagues and Attorney General Mike Cox. Cox had indicated, prior to Conyers’s willful resignation, that he would pursue all legal means in his power to have Conyers forcibly removed from office.


Conspicuously quiet on the issue of Conyers’s resignation was Mayor David Bing. Although he did publicly describe Conyers’ conviction as “unfortunate,” Bing did not call for Conyers to step down.


Federal prosecutors pressed for a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Conyers’s attorney, Steve Fishman, says the prosecution’s case is based on an erroneous “benefit-value” of $1.2 billion, the sum of the contract awarded to Synagro as a result of the bribe. Read More HERE

• Ken Cockrel Jr. quick to call for Monica Conyers' resignation

• Feds investigating Monica Conyers tie to $40,000 jewelry bribe, Detroit developer

BRO Report says: We agree with a reader at the Detroit Free Press Civil Rights Heroes Didn't Dream This!

Thanks Monica Conyers for the Big Black Political Rip Off!