HBO’s defunct drug drama, “The Wire,” encapsulated the explosion in the African-American male prison population. However, it’ll be a minute before American Greed on CNBC frames the rise in black female public officials dethroned due to greed.
As if New Orleans, LA hadn’t been besieged with enough, the not so slick mother and daughter team of Ellenese Brooks-Sims and Stacy Sims come along to sip from bribery’s brew. Brooks-Sims, a former Orleans Parish school board member, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison this week for accepting $100,000 to support an algebra software program. For her knowledge of the transaction, daughter Stacy received 2 years probation and 40 hours of community service.
With as many as seven years of freedom at stake, Brooks-Sims received a reduced sentence for wearing a wire to trap her benefactor, Mose Jefferson, brother of U.S. Representative William Jefferson who was busted earlier behind $90,000 in unrelated freezer burned bribes.
Remember Sheila Dixon? Although she plea-bargained her way into resignation, the former mayor was administered a dose of “de-greed” when she ripped off gift cards targeted for Baltimore’s poor last year.
If you recall, D.C. was drenched in a blistery white winter so if former NBA player Juan Dixon’s aunt missed anything, rest assured it was her mink jacket. Spotted on eBay this week, the not so fancy token came courtesy of a developer Dixon was allegedly sexing. Should she go where I suspect she’s headed in the afterlife, girlfriend will wish she was back in the thick of D.C.’s frigidity.
Incidentally, her b-baller nephew has his own issues, having recently been suspended from the Spanish basketball league for a steroid-tainted UA.
Unlike Dixon, former Detroit city councilwoman Monica Conyers will soon paddle up Jail River for a 37-month stay thanks to a bribery conviction. She was accused of flip-flopping on a controversial $1.2 billion sludge contract that she adamantly opposed previously. Her complicity in wrongdoing also casts a dark shadow on her 80-year-old husband, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, who signed a letter in support of the Houston-based Synagro project.
Caught fake nail-handed in the cookie jar, Mrs. Conyers’ white collar crime reportedly netted less than $100K. Though, on paper, she graduated from a D.C. law school, the 44-year-old failed miserably at mastering Wall Street’s golden rule – When a theft opportunity knocks, always steal BIG!
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