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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: PBRCat

Most other countries are pickey about allowing criminals into their countries. He’d better try Germany or Sweden.


41 posted on 05/11/2018 11:38:41 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: PBRCat

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you corrupt bastard!


42 posted on 05/11/2018 11:44:47 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: PBRCat

I think America is done with him too.

And good riddance.


43 posted on 05/11/2018 11:49:37 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: PBRCat
that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

please let this be true

44 posted on 05/11/2018 11:56:50 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: PBRCat
“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa. … I’ve given up on America,”

Can we fund an ad campaign and broadcast this 10 times a day on every channel?

I would even pay a special tax for ships and planes to ship them out.

The promised land for angry African-Americans is waiting, just as Jefferson, Monroe and even Lincoln supported:


COME HOME!!!

45 posted on 05/11/2018 12:25:07 PM PDT by montag813
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To: PBRCat

LOL, just wait until reality sets in.


46 posted on 05/11/2018 12:57:19 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: MplsSteve

Exactly! “:^)


47 posted on 05/11/2018 12:57:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: simpson96

For sure...


48 posted on 05/11/2018 12:58:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Snickering Hound

...desert...


49 posted on 05/11/2018 12:58:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Works for me...

“:^)


50 posted on 05/11/2018 12:59:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: boomop1

Could be...


51 posted on 05/11/2018 1:14:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Menehune56
Rhodes Scholar

So hit the Rhodes, scholar.

52 posted on 05/11/2018 1:18:32 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: PBRCat

Where do you plan to go, mel? You are an American citizen. They aren’t going to let you in just because you are a privileged member of a government-certified minority. Besides, they have seen enough corruption in government officials.

Besides, most Africans speaks better English than you does.


53 posted on 05/11/2018 1:28:06 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: PBRCat

My recommendation, Mel, is the Congo. Enjoy.


54 posted on 05/11/2018 6:22:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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