Nation IN BRIEF : ILLINOIS : Phone Tapes Played in Congressman Trial
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Tapes of sexual telephone conversations between Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill.) and a former campaign worker were played for a jury as prosecutors tried to prove the two had an affair when she was 16. The tapes, in which Reynolds, 43, says what he had done and would like to do with the girl, are the centerpiece of prosecution claims that Reynolds had sex with a minor. Defense attorneys say the recordings merely show Reynolds liked to fantasize over the phone.
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