Mel Reynolds back in Chicago, rips media for misreporting ordeal
Source: Chicago Tribune
After months in southern Africa, former Rep. Mel Reynolds has returned to Chicago with dramatic stories of espionage, Zimbabwe jails, pornography charges, human rights violations and malaria.
And he blames the Chicago media for misreporting all of it.
“Why is there a double standard when it comes to Mel Reynolds?” he asked during a news conference at a downtown hotel.
A former Rhodes scholar, Reynolds was a fast-rising star in the Democratic Party in the 1990s, but he resigned after being convicted of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. Later in a separate case, he was convicted of bank and campaign fraud.
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