Former Illinois Congressman Mel Reynolds has reported to a federal correctional center to begin serving the remaining four months of his sentence for failing to file tax returns.

The 66-year-old Reynolds surrendered yesterday for a stay at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.

Reynolds received six month for failing to file tax returns for income made while consulting for Chicago businessmen operating in Africa. He was given credit for two months already served in custody. Prosecutors had asked for a two-year sentence.

Reynolds resigned from Congress in 1995 after being convicted of statutory rape. He was later convicted on charges he illegally raised campaign cash while in Congress and defrauded banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.