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Reynolds, 63, who
was charged on Thursday, faces up to a year in prison and a
$250,000 fine for each of the four counts against him, according
to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago.
He will be arraigned next Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Chicago before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez, according to a court
representative.
Reynolds, a Rhodes scholar and one-time promising star of the
Democratic Party, was first elected to Congress in 1992.
In August of 1994, he was indicted for having a relationship
with a 16-year-old campaign worker, though he was re-elected
again in 1994 in his Chicago district without opposition.
He was convicted in 1995 on sexual assault and child pornography
charges and resigned.
Before his release in 1997, he was convicted of bank fraud and
misusing campaign funds for personal use and had to serve
additional time. He was released in 2001.
Reynolds tried politics again, but in 2013 lost a bid for the
U.S. House of Representatives seat of Jesse Jackson Jr., who had
resigned before pleading guilty to fraud charges.
Last year, Reynolds ran into legal trouble in Zimbabwe and was
charged with possession of pornographic images and videos. The
charges were later dropped, but he pleaded guilty to a visa
violation, according to media accounts.
An attorney for Reynolds was not immediately available for
comment.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski)
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