Posted on 05/11/2018 10:15:37 AM PDT by PBRCat
Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds is headed back to jail, but for a short enough time four months that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.
Im done with America. Im going to do this, and Im going home to Africa. Ive given up on America, Reynolds told reporters after U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced him to six months imprisonment for his failure to file income tax returns.
Its really a tragedy youve squandered the opportunities youve had and the type of person you could have been, the judge told Reynolds.
Reynolds, whose amazing rise from poverty to become a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard grad and then congressman was matched by an equally amazing fall from grace during the 1990s, had sought probation.
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Cant we commute the sentence so he can leave now?
No, America is done with YOU, loser!
Hopefully there are no Catholic School girls wherever he’s going.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing.
And after he goes, somehow find a way to code his records so they he’s denied re-entry here.
The epitome of affirmative action
How sad- Mr “Boo Hoo look at me, I need attention” is leaving America
Do you need gaS money sir? plane ticket? Perhaps one of your socialist friends can help you out
Bwahahahaha... good riddance!
Might happen, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Zimbabwe kicked him out for possession of pornography.
I sure hope President Trump will send him a nice goodbye tweet. :)
Rape targets are plentiful
Taxation (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (26%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (17%) Health (13%) Commerce (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%)
He obviously didn't have any problem voting to make other people pay more taxes.
so many things are awarded to a select few such as obungos' Nobel peace prize..absolutely no connection with reality...prizes are based on political correctness...
“I sure hope President Trump will send him a nice goodbye tweet. :)”
I hope the President gives him a free ticket in exchange for his US Passport and his signature on a form renouncing his citizenship, and does it on national TV! And maybe at the same time, he can make the same offer to Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, and all of the rest of the “Hollywood $hit” that is always threatening to leave the country.
Welcome home!
He’s in for a surprise when he gets to Africa.
Buh-bye...
I wish more criminals would leave. Works for me.
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