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Monica Conyers, wife of John Conyers, owes Neiman Marcus up to $50K

The imprisoned wife of longtime Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers owes as much as $50,000 to the ultra-posh retailer Neiman Marcus.

Monica Conyers, the former Detroit city councilwoman who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit bribery, has from $15,000 to $50,000 in debt on an HSBC Neiman Marcus card, according to financial disclosure forms John Conyers filed with the House of Representatives last week.

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Monica Conyers is to be released from prison in May 2013, according to the Bureau of Prisons. The financial disclosure says the debt was incurred in December 2010. Monica Conyers went to prison in the summer of 2010.

John Conyers’s office had no immediate comment.

Conyers, 83, faces a tough race in an August primary against three other Democratic candidates. His new district extends into the Detroit suburbs — new territory for the lawmaker that has served in the House since 1965.

The debt to Neiman Marcus represents only part of the Conyers’s financial liabilities. They owe at least $190,000, including a home loan worth at least $100,000, and two lines of credit totaling $25,000.

He lists only one asset — a house his wife owns in Detroit worth from $15,000 to $50,000.

Personal debt for political spouses has been an issue in the past — in May 2011, POLITICO reported that Newt Gingrich, then running for president, owed as much as a half-million dollars to Tiffany’s, the jewelry store.


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