Elected to Congress in 1992, Mel Reynold’s career took a dive after he was convicted in 1995 for having sex with an underage girl and in 1997 for fraud. Having spent time in prison he was granted clemency by President Bill Clinton in 2001. He was indicted on tax evasion charges in 2015. In 2014 Reynolds was arrested in Zimbabwe, where pornography is illegal, and accused of making sex tapes, though those charges were later dropped.
Reynolds said that Homeland Security agents downloaded data from his laptop at Atlanta airport and improperly shared it with federal prosecutors.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas wrote in a court filing not only have they not seen the contents of the laptop, all they know about it is that it contained, “certain sexually explicit videos involving the defendant that may constitute contraband”.
Reynolds faces up to four years in prison and a substantial fine if convicted of failing to file tax returns from 2009 to 2012.
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