The scandal at DCS stretched all the way to Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway admitted taking $450,000 in bribes, some of that in exchange for a vote that allowed the DCS bus camera program to continue operating. Caraway is serving a four and a half year sentence.
At Thursday’s sentencing, Reynolds’ attorney asked Federal Judge Barbara Lynn to spare his client from prison saying that Reynolds’, “vision had been clouded” by his long time friendship with Leonard and said that Reynolds has significant medical problems that would make prison time more difficult.
Judge Lynn acknowledged that Reynolds had the least involvement of the defendants in the scandal but said that he still committed a very serious crime by allowing his law license to be used in what Lynn described as the “grotesque scheme” that hurt the Dallas community. In addition to six months in prison, Judge Lynn ordered Reynolds to pay a $25,000 fine.