He’s
just a guy who overstayed his visa, and is about to get kicked out of the
country. Zimbabwe, that is.
FOR
IT SEEMS that the one-time representative from the Far South Side and
surrounding suburbs who got caught using the camera on his personal phone to
take pictures of women in compromising pictures is not going to face a criminal
charge on that, after all.
A
judge in Harare dismissed that charge of pornography possession – which is a
felony in Zimbabwe.
But
Reynolds did plead guilty to a charge that he was in Zimbabwe on an expired
visa (he’d been there since November, theoretically so that he could make
contacts to benefit U.S. corporate interests that want to do business in
Africa).
So
for that, a judge ordered Reynolds to be deported.
THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE reported Friday that attorneys for Reynolds say they expect him
to return to the United States next week, although they’re not sure if he will
wind up back in Chicago proper (he had been living in the Bronzeville
neighborhood in recent years).
Although
the part that most intrigued me was the claim by the hotel manager to the
Tribune newspaper that they had nothing to do with Reynolds’ arrest. He had
something like a $24,000 hotel bill he had run up. Who knows if they’ll ever
get the money?
I
still wonder if this was more about Reynolds offending some local persona, and
then falling into a trap of his own making by having all those girls up to his
hotel room so he could try making himself a personal film.
All
of which makes this week’s Reynolds saga -- which was already so overloaded with tacky incidents -- a self-inflicted wound!
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