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DETROIT (AP) | Just months after spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to oust former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the beleaguered city of Detroit was spared another round Monday when City Council member Monica Conyers resigned her seat without a fight.

Conyers, 44, the wife of powerful and respected Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr., quietly had a staffer bring the City Clerk's office a one-paragraph letter announcing her resignation three days after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery for her vote on a sludge-hauling contract. Monica Conyers did not respond to repeated requests for comment Monday.

Prosecutors said that Mr. Conyers knew nothing about his wife's wrongdoing and that he has been cleared of involvement in the bribery case.

Kilpatrick was confronted with stepping aside or being forced out as mayor over a text-messaging sex scandal. Conyers watched as Kilpatrick lost a monthslong fight to hang on to his position and eventually went to jail.