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Monica Conyers Got Ex-Con Brother A Job

A shocking revelation (just kidding) from the Detroit News:

Reggie Esters

Conyers got ex-con brother city job

Building official says councilwoman recommended him; she denies it

David Josar / The Detroit News

April 3, 2009

Detroit –A top city official says City Council President Monica Conyers pulled strings to get her brother, an ex-con with a violent record, a job in the building department that was to last only 120 days but was extended for two years.

"She came up to me, handed me his resume and said ‘You should hire him. He’s a good guy,’ " said Amru Meah, director of Building & Safety Engineering.

Reggie Esters, 38, was fired from the $30,500 job last summer on claims of chronic absenteeism. About the same time, he was charged with 10 felonies stemming from allegations he brandished a shotgun at two people, according to court records. He pleaded guilty to one count and faces sentencing April 17.

Records obtained this week by The Detroit News show Esters submitted a resume showing he worked continuously for two construction firms from 1999 to 2006. State records show he was incarcerated for assault and weapons charges for much of that time.

Meah said Conyers wanted her brother hired as a $50,000 inspector, but he wasn’t qualified and wouldn’t pass a license exam. Instead, he was hired as an investigator who checked if businesses are properly licensed.

Conyers, whose maiden name is Esters, said Meah is wrong. She denied that Esters is her brother, despite papers filed in Wayne County Probate Court in 1976 that identify them as siblings with the same parents, Robert H. and Alice Esters.

"I have no idea what Mr. Meah is talking about," Conyers said.

Calls to Marlon Evans, Esters’ attorney, were not returned.

The city has no rules against hiring felons and Meah said he didn’t know of Esters’ record until a reporter told him about it Thursday.

"Human Resources is supposed to check that," he said.

Daniel Cherrin, spokesman for Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr., said Esters’ position did not require a background check although Human Resources "looks for inconsistencies and other red flags."

Esters’ resume "was reviewed and he met the minimum requirement for the position," Cherrin said, but added that the person who headed Human Resources a the time, James Tyler, an appointee of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, was fired shortly after Cockrel took office.

Cherrin did not know if any references were checked. None was listed on Esters’ application.

According to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Human Resources fast-tracked Esters’ hire as a commercial and residential investigator after Meah wrote that there was an "immediate need" to fill the position.

"Mr. Esters has the experience that we require for this position. Please see attached resume for your review," Meah wrote in an Oct. 27, 2006, letter to Tyler. Conyers was elected to the panel 11 months before.

Meah said he fired Esters last summer after he was repeatedly missing from work.

"I said, ‘He’s not around. Fire him,’ " he said.

A provisional employee does not get benefits and can be terminated at any time.

Esters, who records indicate is one of Conyers’ three brothers, has been arrested at least 14 times since 1988, when he pleaded guilty to shoplifting in Redford Township and was put on probation for one year. In 1990, he was charged with first-degree murder but was acquitted after a jury trial. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, according to Wayne Circuit Court records.

On his one-page resume, Esters stated that he had graduated from MacKenzie High School in 1988 and had worked as a "FORMAN" [sic] for Jenkins Construction in Detroit from 2000 to 2006 with responsibilities that included "Plan, organize and manage the overall construction development."

But on Sept. 20, 2001, Esters was incarcerated by the Michigan Department of Corrections after he pleaded guilty to assault with intent to cause great bodily harm and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He began his sentence in prison but was then transferred to a boot camp until he was released on May 30, 2006.

That was about the time Meah said Conyers approached him about finding a job for her brother.

Esters was reappointed five times to the post even though he had signed a statement saying he knew the job would last 120 days.

The practice is not uncommon in Detroit.

Detroit City Council President Monica Esters Conyers.

Alas, none of these practices is uncommon in any city or district run by the Democrat Party.

In fact, corruption seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Just as it is a rule that most of the media will never call him to task for this.

And of course he will never be asked to step down – or ever be unelected.

Our favorite passage:

Conyers, whose maiden name is Esters, said Meah is wrong. She denied that Esters is her brother, despite papers filed in Wayne County Probate Court in 1976 that identify them as siblings with the same parents, Robert H. and Alice Esters.

Yes, some people get the government they deserve. But we all don’t deserve it.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., right, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., center, receive a petition on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, from Casa Maryland Executive Director Gustavo Torres, left, asking the Justice Department to investigate Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

And yes, this is the notorious wife of the notorious John Conyers, who is currently demanding that the Justice Department investigate (the great) Phoenix sheriff Joe Arpaio – for malfeasance.

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16 Responses to “Monica Conyers Got Ex-Con Brother A Job”

  1. Enthalpy
    April 3, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Monica Conyers’ political life is a train wreck. What she lacks in competence, she makes up for with arrogance or condescension.

  2. wardmama4
    April 3, 2009 at 11:19 am

    As if calling someone Shrek and having removed from the council meeting a white person/contractor isn’t enough – it seems now that she is, oh my, it’s on the tip of my tongue, damn what are those words – croynism, nepotism, corrupt – now where did I hear all those words.

    Ah yes, didn’t her husband lob them at President Bush a few times during the past 8 years?

    I guess he learned the definitions at ‘home’ – so to speak, as I’ve read that they don’t have a real marriage – just one of political expedience (i.e. money grubbing via taxpayer dollars).

    Might the Detroit News be setting up the grounds for removing this lunatic from her position? I mean calling someone Shrek can be laughed off and of course in downtown Detroit – race baiting is the name of the game – but real live corruption – could be grounds.

  3. pdsand
    April 3, 2009 at 11:32 am

    I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it many more times. In Atlanta, and I’m sure everywhere else in the country, black people have never been bashful about the fact that they consider the old white politicians that ran things before blacks could vote to have been running things in a state of pure corruption and for their own personal gain. Therefore, they wanted to be able to elect blacks to run things corrupt for themselves and for other blacks, and for no other purpose.

    • Liberals Demise
      April 3, 2009 at 11:55 am

      Not good….not good at all!
      WE are racist for the simple act of not agreeing with the Idiot in Command.
      Blacks who achieve the status of “equal” to their white counterparts in politics believe they can’t be touched. All they have to do is scream RACE and all will be well. Blacks don’t want to be equal anymore. They want to be “BETTER” than anyone else and how better to do it? Scream racism!!
      Their down fall is always greed.
      Even when faced with evidence of getting her criminal brother a job, Mrs. Conyers denied that he was her brother.
      Whats wrong…is right.
      Whats right….is wrong!

      What’s wrong with this picture?

    • Barbie
      April 3, 2009 at 12:02 pm

      LD: They want to be “BETTER” than anyone else and how better to do it? Scream racism!!

      Apparently it works. Sad to say.

  4. proreason
    April 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Other than the 14 arrests and 10 felony charges, I counted assertions of 9 lies and/or firable offenses by these fine citizens in this 500 word story.

    So it’s hardly a bad enough situation to be worth mentioning……in Obamytown.

  5. Reality Bytes
    April 3, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    I always wondered why Conyers spoke like a man afraid of another beating. Now I know why.

  6. ThreeBus
    April 3, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Another thing that makes me scratch my head is that she
    has the Detroit Police drive her kids OUT of Detroit to
    attend a predominately white school.

    Detroit. Soooo screwed up.

    Her city council peeps aren’t much better.
    You got Kwame Kenyatta who walked from his
    home and foreclosed because ‘the house isn’t worth the same’
    running for Mayor next time around.

    Martha Reeves using tax dollars to gamble in casinos.

    There’s probably more foolishness but my fingers are getting tired of typing.

  7. Right of the People
    April 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Maybe we can get Detroit to secede from the union. We could establish a totally black/muslim state for them and they can keep Government Motors too so they can build the Oblah-blah, a car that runs solely on hot air.

    Esters’ resume “was reviewed and he met the minimum requirement for the position,” Cherrin said. What requirements were those, that his sissy handed it to Cherrin and said “Give my worthless ass brother a job.”?

    • caligirl9
      April 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm

      It’s really too bad that Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Berkeley aren’t next door to each other.
      Walling off those cities together and letting them become their own republic would be a great start toward the recovery of the good ‘ol U.S. of A.
      But make sure the TOTUS is locked up with ‘em. I suggest we then sever all means of communication to the “outside world” and let ‘em live in their little utopia.

    • dulcimergrl
      April 3, 2009 at 7:34 pm

      Oh, and don’t forget those fine, upstanding anarchists who were protesting in London this week, Cali.

    • Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
      April 4, 2009 at 1:27 am

      “We could establish a totally black/muslim state for them…

      ROTP,

      Haven’t they already accomplished that in Detroit?

  8. Howard Roark
    April 3, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Is this story about Detroit or Swaziland?

    It’s payback time, white America. Their appreciation at being sold and taken from the cesspools they originated from over 400 years ago is nonexistent, of course. All of their antics and behavior seems to only give credence to the old South’s warnings, you know?

    I wish it weren’t so, really. But wishing never put food on the table, of course. Our time is nearing an end.

  9. canary
    April 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    considering Michigan listed in the top 5 terrorist hot spots in the U.S. and having one of the most pathetic state Homeland Security Departments, I’m still shocked. If he harms someone, they will have a great suit against the city. If that famous African American athlete can go to the pink tent prison camp and not complain, so should these idiots investigating the Sheriff. This would be a great jail for all the leaders not paying taxes. Even if they spent one day in prison, it would ease the disgust Americans have for the hypocrites.

    • jobeth
      April 3, 2009 at 8:20 pm

      “This would be a great jail for all the leaders not paying taxes. Even if they spent one day in prison, it would ease the disgust Americans have for the hypocrites.”

      * pop! * …yawn…stretch….”Sorry, I just had the most wonderful dream…..”

  10. woodmanthered
    April 3, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    It is unbelievable with all this real news going on that you have to go to website to find it. In my younger days the reporters on the major networks would not miss all this news some one would have to answer.They would get to the bottom of this thing, is he her brother or not. Ya’ll have a great

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