April 13, 2016
In 1995 then-congressman Reynolds was convicted of soliciting child porn, having sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and statutory rape. He was sentenced in a separate bank fraud case and spent years in prison before President Bill Clinton commuted the fraud sentence.
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Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds Arrested at Atlanta Airport
Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds was taken into federal custody Monday morning in Atlanta after a judge in Chicago ordered his arrest because he didn't appear for a hearing in a tax case last month, federal officials said.