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Mel Reynolds Vows to Serve Jail Term and Leave the Country: "I'm Done With America."
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 11, 2018 | Mark Brown

Posted on 05/11/2018 10:15:37 AM PDT by PBRCat

Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds is headed back to jail, but for a short enough time — four months — that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa. … I’ve given up on America,” Reynolds told reporters after U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced him to six months imprisonment for his failure to file income tax returns.

“It’s really a tragedy you’ve squandered the opportunities you’ve had and the type of person you could have been,” the judge told Reynolds.

Reynolds, whose amazing rise from poverty to become a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard grad and then congressman was matched by an equally amazing fall from grace during the 1990s, had sought probation.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: congress; corruptdems; melreynolds; reynolds; taxes; trials
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To: cherry

Rhodes Scholar - named after a white guy. Harvard University - founded by white males.


21 posted on 05/11/2018 10:32:44 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: PBRCat

Africa is not glamorous Mel. The mosquitos, ticks and cholera are really going to bum you out.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 10:34:04 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: PBRCat

Child molester.


23 posted on 05/11/2018 10:34:20 AM PDT by steve8714 ("My name is Rod Blagojevich and I need cash now!" (all) "Call JB Pritzker, 87DirtyCashNOW!")
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You can tell he’s a Democrat by the fact that his political affiliation is not mentioned in the article.


24 posted on 05/11/2018 10:35:15 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: PBRCat

In these kinds of situations the judge should give him the chance to forego the prison sentence entirely in exchange for a prepaid ticket to where ever he wants to go and a six YEAR sentence if he ever returns.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 10:35:51 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: reg45
Rhodes Scholar - named after a white guy. Harvard University - founded by white males.

And not just any old white guy. Cecil Rhodes was the founder of the country of Rhodesia.

26 posted on 05/11/2018 10:39:22 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: DoughtyOne

And we should consider a Crowd Source campaign to buy him a one-way ticket to the country of his choice. (The only caveat being that it has to be a country that has been described by our president as something akin to an excrement pit.)


27 posted on 05/11/2018 10:39:38 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Time to BLOAT again.)
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To: PBRCat

I wonder where in Africa

Gonna be a wake up call

Just go to Haiti..it’s on par with the Congo

But with beaches


28 posted on 05/11/2018 10:43:06 AM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: DoughtyOne

He probably has a stash in Africa.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 10:44:22 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: samadams2000
The mosquitos, ticks and cholera are really going to bum you out.

Not to mention the occasional bout of Ebola.

30 posted on 05/11/2018 10:44:34 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: PBRCat
...that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas KWANZAA.

Fixed it.

Hey Mel. We have your mud hut ready for you. Welcome!

Image result for AFRICAn slum

31 posted on 05/11/2018 10:48:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: PBRCat

He’s lying.


32 posted on 05/11/2018 10:50:51 AM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: PBRCat

This guy was that black ivy league graduate that was supposed to do so well if only he could get an ivy league education. He got it. He then cheated on his wife with a young teenager. He then broke every law he could find and escaped to Africa to run guns and drugs. Then Africa put him in jail. America saved his butt. And he of course keeps breaking laws. He needs to go back to that African jail where he belongs.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 10:54:26 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Steely Tom

Former congressman denies pornography charge in Zimbabwe
https://www.reuters.com/...zimbabwe.../former-congressman-denies-pornography-cha...
Feb 19, 2014 - “I am still trying to persuade him to plead guilty to all the charges, they are not that serious. ... Possession of pornography is illegal in Zimbabwe.
Missing: kicked
US ex-congressman to face Zimbabwe porn charges - Daily Nation
https://www.nation.co.ke › News › Africa
Feb 19, 2014 - Search for best post-harvest technologies kicks off ... US ex-congressman to face Zimbabwe porn charges ... of illegal possession of pornography and flouting immigration laws. ... It said his residence permit had also expired and that he should not be eligible for bail. ... Kerosene to be phased out: ERC.

Former Congressman Arrested In Zimbabwe For Porn Possession ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icejyTQzvTs
Feb 18, 2014 - Mel Reynolds, who resigned from Congress in 1995 due to sex-related charges, has been arrested for pornography possession and ...
Missing: kicked


34 posted on 05/11/2018 10:54:40 AM PDT by dennisw (The fruity Doc is missing a few erarings.)
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To: poinq
This guy was that black ivy league graduate that was supposed to do so well if only he could get an ivy league education. He got it. He then cheated on his wife with a young teenager. He then broke every law he could find and escaped to Africa to run guns and drugs. Then Africa put him in jail. America saved his butt. And he of course keeps breaking laws. He needs to go back to that African jail where he belongs.

Whaddaya mean? The first two or three were doing pretty well, at least for some people.

35 posted on 05/11/2018 10:56:59 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: PBRCat

Say hi to every in Zimbabwe for me, convict? So Bubba Clinton pardoned for his first perv crimes and after that he went on to financial crimes and tax evasion. Once he leaves he should not be allowed back in the country


36 posted on 05/11/2018 11:11:33 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: PBRCat
“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa ."

Kick rocks, bro.

Bagster

The Lesser Oracle

37 posted on 05/11/2018 11:12:22 AM PDT by bagster (The Bagster Alliance is insidous.)
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To: mkmensinger

“Hopefully there are no Catholic School girls wherever he’s going.”

That might prevent him from winning the lotto.


38 posted on 05/11/2018 11:16:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: samadams2000

Africa is not glamorous Mel. The mosquitos, ticks and cholera are really going to bum you out.

Ebola is a fun playmate too!


39 posted on 05/11/2018 11:19:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: cherry

Nobel Prizes - also named for a white male.


40 posted on 05/11/2018 11:26:03 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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