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A fine former US Rep arrested for kiddie porn-again!
From today's Chronicle:
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Melvin Jay Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe, said a Zimbabwean immigration official.
The official, Ario Mabika, told The Associated Press Tuesday that Reynolds is being investigated.
The state-controlled newspaper, The Herald, reported that Reynolds was arrested Monday for allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws.
Reynolds, an Illinois Democrat, resigned from his congressional seat in 1995 after he was convicted of 12 counts of statutory rape, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography.
The Herald said Reynolds was arrested by police detectives and immigration officials at a Harare hotel.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy, Karen Kelley, said the embassy could not comment as it was a private matter and the embassy did not did not have a privacy waiver.
The newspaper reported that Reynolds had accumulated hotel bills worth $24,500 which he has not yet paid.
THIS IS THE SAME GUY THAT HILLARY'S FINE UPSTANDING HUBBY COMMUTED HIS SENTENCE WHEN LEAVING OFFICE IN JANUARY 2001 AND IS ALSO A FINE EXAMPLE OF ILLINOIS POLITICIANS, LIKE OBAMA!!
From the 2001 Chicago Tribune (note the other "fine" folks mentioned!!):
Just hours before he left office Saturday, President Clinton ordered Mel Reynolds released from prison, commuting the former Chicago Democratic congressman's sentence as part of a flurry of last-minute clemency grants. WAY TO GO BILL-PUT A PERVERT BACK ON THE STREET!!
Clinton gave full pardons to his brother, Roger, who served prison time during the 1980s for a cocaine conviction, and to Whitewater figure Susan McDougal. AFTER ALL, BILL AND HILLARY, McDOUGAL TOOK THE FALL FOR YOU TWO CROOKS!!
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros was pardoned for making false statements about payments to an ex-mistress, and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw for involvement in a bank robbery after her kidnapping by radicals during the 1970s. ANOTHER FINE DEMOCRAT-HENRY CISNEROS!!
Clinton ended his term with more than 100 grants of clemency, including for a number of political figures caught up in scandals, and he reduced sentences for at least a dozen non-violent, low-level drug offenders who had been sentenced to lengthy prison terms under mandatory minimum laws.
Full pardons essentially wipe clean someone's criminal record; sentence commutations allow only for early release.
AINT IT GREAT TO BE A SCUMBAG IN 'MERICA!!
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Melvin Jay Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe, said a Zimbabwean immigration official.
The official, Ario Mabika, told The Associated Press Tuesday that Reynolds is being investigated.
The state-controlled newspaper, The Herald, reported that Reynolds was arrested Monday for allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws.
Reynolds, an Illinois Democrat, resigned from his congressional seat in 1995 after he was convicted of 12 counts of statutory rape, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography.
The Herald said Reynolds was arrested by police detectives and immigration officials at a Harare hotel.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy, Karen Kelley, said the embassy could not comment as it was a private matter and the embassy did not did not have a privacy waiver.
The newspaper reported that Reynolds had accumulated hotel bills worth $24,500 which he has not yet paid.
THIS IS THE SAME GUY THAT HILLARY'S FINE UPSTANDING HUBBY COMMUTED HIS SENTENCE WHEN LEAVING OFFICE IN JANUARY 2001 AND IS ALSO A FINE EXAMPLE OF ILLINOIS POLITICIANS, LIKE OBAMA!!
From the 2001 Chicago Tribune (note the other "fine" folks mentioned!!):
Just hours before he left office Saturday, President Clinton ordered Mel Reynolds released from prison, commuting the former Chicago Democratic congressman's sentence as part of a flurry of last-minute clemency grants. WAY TO GO BILL-PUT A PERVERT BACK ON THE STREET!!
Clinton gave full pardons to his brother, Roger, who served prison time during the 1980s for a cocaine conviction, and to Whitewater figure Susan McDougal. AFTER ALL, BILL AND HILLARY, McDOUGAL TOOK THE FALL FOR YOU TWO CROOKS!!
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros was pardoned for making false statements about payments to an ex-mistress, and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw for involvement in a bank robbery after her kidnapping by radicals during the 1970s. ANOTHER FINE DEMOCRAT-HENRY CISNEROS!!
Clinton ended his term with more than 100 grants of clemency, including for a number of political figures caught up in scandals, and he reduced sentences for at least a dozen non-violent, low-level drug offenders who had been sentenced to lengthy prison terms under mandatory minimum laws.
Full pardons essentially wipe clean someone's criminal record; sentence commutations allow only for early release.
AINT IT GREAT TO BE A SCUMBAG IN 'MERICA!!
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