Sam Riddle expects indictment "soon" in Detroit bribery scandal

From Sunshine Review

July 15, 2009 Flint political consultant Sam Riddle expects he will face indictment this week in the federal probe into his involvement with corruption at Detroit City Hall, the Detroit Free Press reports.^[1]

[edit] Contract corruption

Riddle is a former aide to Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, who pleaded guilty last month to bribery in the same case of contract corruption that Riddle faces.^[2] Jim Rosendall, a former representative of Synagro, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting he paid a Detroit council member prior to a vote on the Synagro contract.^[1]

Riddle is prepared for the indictment and believes he will be vindicated.

"I'm not cutting any (expletive) deal because they're going to do what they're going to do any (expletive) way," Riddle told the Free Press.

Riddle was also a political consultant for former Flint Mayor Don Williamson. He most recently helped Williamson with his gubernatorial campaign. Riddle also advised a mother of a boy who fatally shot a first-grade classmate in the Beecher School District in 2000.^[1]

[edit] Synagro

Riddle and Conyers faced the bribery case, joined by the other 6 alleged accused of aiding Houston-based Synagro Technologies confirm a multimillion dollar contract with Detroit.^[3] The other officials include former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, lobbying firm owner Bernard Kilpatrick, former Detroit CAO and CIO Derrick Miller, Kilpatrick's former assistant and later political consultant Mike Tardif, developer and consultant Rayford Jackson and lobbyist Akunna Olumba. The contract sparking the scandal was set to award Synagro with a $47 million annual contract to recycle biosolids from the city’s waste treatment plant.^[4]

[edit] External links

• "Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to bribery"
• "Detroit bribery scandal trail leads to consultant and councilwoman"
• Synagro technologies
• Sunshine Review, "Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to bribery"

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