The Detroit News reports that Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers pulled strings to get her brother, an ex-convict with a violent past and a resume full of inaccurate information, a job with the city of Detroit.
 

“She [Conyers] 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.

According to the article, Conyers is actually denying that Esters is her brother. The newspaper says multiple records show that they are siblings with the same parents. If these allegations turn out to be true it would be yet another stain on the Detroit city government already reeling from the various Kwame Kilpatrick scandals.