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Actually, Clinton did not pardon Reynolds. He commuted his sentence on Federal corruption charges. Reynolds had already served his time on the sex charges, which was a matter for the state courts: he had a 5-year sentence without the possibility of probation and served about half of it, getting the rest of it off for good behavior:
From [url]http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/reyns22.html[/url] :
Reynolds resigned from Congress in 1995 after being convicted in state court of having sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. He was convicted in 1997 on federal corruption charges. He had more than two years to serve on that conviction when he learned Saturday that President Clinton had commuted his sentence.
[Edited by DanT on 01-22-2001 at 12:57 PM]
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