Reynolds claims the majority of the money the government claims he didn’t pay taxes on was expense money given him by Chicago businessman Elzie Higginbottom to find business opportunities in Africa.
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The cash-strapped Harvard graduate, who is represented by a federal defender, has no home of his own; he found a place to spend the night after hours of searching. But prosecutors say he should now live under sex-registry restrictions.
Reynolds is charged with failing to file income tax returns from 2009 through 2012. He had beforehand been convicted for having intercourse with an underage marketing campaign employee.
An attorney for the former congressman said Reynolds did not have to register as a sex offender in the past courtesy of a law from the 1990s, but prosecutors say sex-offender housing constraints should apply to the fallen politician. The restrictions include not living close to schools.
A judge in the morning rejected several places Reynold’s suggested he could live.
“I don’t know where he’s going to stay”.
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Before his launch from jail in 1997, Reynolds was convicted of financial institution fraud and… His lawyer said the Illinois Democrat couldn’t return from an overseas trip because of medical issues with his daughter.
