He resigned in October 1995 after a jury convicted him of sexual assault charges related to sex with an underage campaign worker.
In August 1994, Reynolds was indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer that began during the 1992 campaign.
He also faced charges of child pornography for asking the underage campaign worker to obtain "lewd photographs of another girl who was age 15" and obstruction of justice for convincing one of the girls involved to lie to authorities.
On August 22, 1995, he was convicted on 12 counts of criminal sexual assault, sexual abuse, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography.
He resigned his seat on October 1 of that year.
On February 18, 2014, Reynolds was arrested in Zimbabwe for overstaying his visa.
He was allegedly found to be in possession of pornographic videos he had filmed with several women at the hotel where he was staying.
Possession of pornography is a crime in the country.
The pornography charges were later dropped, but he pleaded guilty to violating immigration laws, and was deported to South Africa.
On June 26, 2015, Reynolds was indicted by a grand jury for failure to file federal income tax returns for the 2009 through 2012 tax years on more than $400,000 income.
On September 28, 2017, Judge Robert Gettleman found Reynolds guilty on tax charges, on all four counts alleging he failed to file a federal income tax return for four consecutive years.
He was sentenced by Gettleman to six months in prison on May 10, 2018 which he begun serving at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago on August 1.
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shewhomustbeobeyed ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Reynolds - https://archive.fo/uGt7q
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-08-31-9508310231-story.html - https://archive.fo/iLZ7O
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-12-29-9812290039-story.html - https://archive.fo/NVmEZ
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-us-congressman-melvin-jay-reynolds-arrested-in-zimbabwe - https://archive.fo/PgKJ2
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melvin-jay-reynolds-ex-us-congressman-from-illinois-arrested-in-zimbabwe/ - https://archive.fo/ZZ5Vk
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/mel-reynolds-asks-judge-to-move-him-from-prison-to-halfway-house/ - https://archive.fo/BgWI2
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1451911 - https://archive.fo/oc5oc
Mrs_Ogynist01 ago
I didn't read all that. Boy, Bill really picked a winner to pardon.
shewhomustbeobeyed ago
Yeah, and that is just one. How many more is the question.