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Mel Reynolds pleads guilty to visa violation, but porn charge dropped (Ill RAT getting deported)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 2/21/14 | Katherine Skiba

Posted on 02/22/2014 3:06:10 PM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

The disgraced Illinois ex-congressman denied charges he was found with nude pictures and videos of women and men having sexual intercourse on his mobile phone. The count was an alleged violation of Zimbabwe's Censorship and Entertainments Control Act, according to Gurira, and carried a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine. Pornography is banned in Zimbabwe.

Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe agreed with Reynolds’ lawyer that state prosecutors had not sought written authority from the prosecutor general for the pornography charge. “This makes the actions of the state null and void,” Gurira said.

Earlier on Friday, Reynolds pleaded guilty to staying in Zimbabwe on an expired visa. Mahwe said Reynolds should be deported for the visa misdemeanor, and also fined him $100 or five days in prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: brucerauner; deported; illinois; melreynolds; patquinn; porn; reynolds; visa; zimbabwe
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1 posted on 02/22/2014 3:06:10 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Dang, I was hoping they’d keep him.


2 posted on 02/22/2014 3:07:01 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I don’t want him,
They can have him,
He’s too ‘Rat for me


3 posted on 02/22/2014 3:07:59 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Libloather

Obama will find a post for him.


4 posted on 02/22/2014 3:09:21 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Probably can’t afford to feed another another perv prisoner


5 posted on 02/22/2014 3:10:37 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Libloather

Did he pay his hotel bill?


6 posted on 02/22/2014 3:17:10 PM PST by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Libloather
isn't it a child molester too?
7 posted on 02/22/2014 3:17:33 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Libloather

This guy (pardoned by Clinton) was known to like them young.


8 posted on 02/22/2014 3:18:04 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Chode

I think so


9 posted on 02/22/2014 3:19:12 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I was hoping for a length of rope.


10 posted on 02/22/2014 3:22:11 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Tijeras_Slim
HE MUST HAVE WON THE LOTTO!
11 posted on 02/22/2014 3:37:54 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Libloather
You have to drive a stake thru a Democrat politician to be sure. (I didn't write "heart" for a reason)

From November 2012: Mel Reynolds announces run for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s old seat in Congress

12 posted on 02/22/2014 3:42:22 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Libloather

This guy is HHS material.


13 posted on 02/22/2014 3:52:39 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Libloather

I knew it wouldn’t last.

He has to get back quickly — his old Congressional seat is empty and he now has the creds to re-fill it.


14 posted on 02/22/2014 4:06:18 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

DODGED THE BULLET!


15 posted on 02/22/2014 4:10:03 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Libloather

Backchannel call from State Dept. saves his ass. Obama doesn’t want one of his homies to have nothing to lose.


16 posted on 02/22/2014 4:10:46 PM PST by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: Libloather

You have REALLY gotta be a low down dog to be a black progressive, and STILL get rejected by the Government of Zimbabwe. Thrown out of their prim and proper country, he was!


17 posted on 02/22/2014 8:45:42 PM PST by lee martell
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