In a sad follow-up to this morning's post, even sadder given the powerful message and content of this morning's press conference, Monica Conyers, wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and a Detroit city councilwoman, has pleaded guilty to a single bribery charge in an ongoing federal investigation ultimately involving the entire city council.

Rep. Conyers did not appear at the press conference organized for this morning on prosecutorial misconduct. His place on the panel in the National Press Club's First Amendment Lounge was taken by Judiciary Committee counsel Elliott Mintzberg. Mrs. Conyers' guilty plea could result in up to five years' prison time.

The timing of the guilty plea could hardly be worse for the message of the Press Club forum, on selective prosecution and prosecutorial misconduct under the previous administration--with fallout and worse problems continuing in the present.

Note: In no way do the defendant's actions reduce the necessity of investigating ongoing and almost pandemic prosecutorial misconduct under the previous administration, which according to a highly influential research study prosecuted eleven times more Democrats than Republicans in public corruption matters. More later.