R. Kelly

A Chicago jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of multiple child pornography charges in the second federal trial looking into sexual assault allegations ...

She said she previously lied to a Cook County grand jury about it, and that she eventually decided to cooperate with investigators and speak about the time she spent with Kelly because, in her words, “I no longer wanted to carry his lies.” Van Allen said she was pressured into the encounter and later told to lie about it to a lawyer. [reported](https://apnews.com/article/r-kelly-entertainment-music-chicago-be63fbea4f5628822dcc269d659f7841) that prosecutors played for the jury excerpts of the videotape they said depicted Kelly sexually abusing Jane. Chicago prosecutors also accused Kelly and his two associates of conspiring to buy back sex tapes to conceal Kelly’s alleged misconduct. The 2008 trial in Chicago, which marked the first time Kelly was indicted on counts related to sexual misconduct, resulted from child pornography charges brought in 2002 after the Chicago Sun-Times was anonymously sent a videotape that appeared to depict Kelly sexually abusing and urinating on a minor. The man in the footage gives the girl graphic commands, according to the AP. Prosecutors in the Chicago case — which [involved numerous charges](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/15/r-kelly-federal-trial-chicago/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5), including five counts of enticing a minor into criminal sexual activity and six related to child pornography — went another route by invoking two counts of conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation, allegations connected to Kelly’s 2008 trial that also took place in Chicago, his hometown. In this year’s Chicago trial, prosecutors argued that Kelly, McDavid and Brown conspired to bribe witnesses so they would not cooperate with the investigation years ago. On Wednesday, Kelly was found guilty on six of the 13 counts against him: three for coercing minors into sexual activity, and three for producing videos of child sex abuse, according to the AP. “We know the acquittal was not deserved,” he said of Kelly’s 2008 trial. Kelly of multiple child pornography and child sex abuse charges in the second federal trial looking into sexual assault allegations against him, according to the Associated Press. As the hometown of Kelly, who ranked among the most commercially successful R&B artists of the 1990s, Chicago was a complicated backdrop for the trial.

R. Kelly was convicted in a second federal sex-crimes trial and now could be facing even more decades in prison.

He was the only one of the three defendants to testify in his own behalf. A single video, which prosecutors said showed Kelly sexually abusing a girl of around 14, was at the heart of that trial. In some ways, this trial was a do-over of the 2008 trial. Kelly is a sex predator." Kelly was eventually acquitted in that case, which involved a video that allegedly showed Kelly abusing underage Jane. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls," she said. Jurors acquitted McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Before beginning his New York sentence, he had to face this second trial, in the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. Bonjean said they hadn't come to court to tell the unvarnished truth. After acquitting Kelly, jurors said they had no choice because the girl did not take the witness stand at that trial. The verdict followed a four-week trial and jurors delibated for 11 hours over two days. The legal challenges for Kelly are not yet over.

The musician was facing charges of sex crimes and of working to obstruct an earlier investigation that resulted in his acquittal in a 2008 criminal trial.

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During the monthlong trial, jurors heard from R. Kelly's goddaughter “Jane” and three other accusers — each of whom testified using a pseudonym — who ...

Prosecutors also alleged Kelly recorded a fourth tape with “Jane” and his ex-girlfriend Lisa Van Allen, but that tape was never shown to jurors in this case and Kelly was acquitted on the one charge related to that video. Prosecutors, meanwhile, alleged Brown had been seen carrying gym bags they said contained these illicit sex tapes for Kelly, and went out of the country with “Jane” and her parents. During Kelly’s 2008 trial, Freeman said he planned a news conference to announce that he had the videos, but Kelly allegedly paid him off to cancel it. [he signed a contract](https://news.wttw.com/2022/08/23/former-r-kelly-associate-testifies-he-sought-1-million-recover-alleged-child-porn-tape) with McDavid and private investigator Jack Palladino in August 2001 that would pay him $140,000 to get one tape he said had made its way to Atlanta. “Again, I just, it was embedded in me that this could never come out,” she testified last month. A 12-person jury convicted the music superstar on multiple child pornography-related charges, finding he sexually abused his 14-year-old goddaughter “Jane” and other minors in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial ...

[https://twitter.com/mtarm](https://twitter.com/mtarm) and find AP’s full coverage of the R. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. Milton Brown, the other co-defendant and a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography. Defense attorneys suggested a desire for money and fame drove some government witnesses to accuse Kelly, and they accused several people of trying to blackmail him. At the federal trial in Chicago, Jane told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to a singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Soon after that, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather. A judge could order Kelly to serve a new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday’s verdict but otherwise showed little emotion.

A Chicago federal jury found the singer, who is already serving a 30-year prison sentence, guilty of charges related to videos he made of himself sexually ...

Mr. About a dozen fans showed up to the courthouse each day, and during deliberations, a man set up a speaker that blasted “Step in the Name of Love” and other hits by Mr. A key development for prosecutors who secured the conviction was the decision by the woman at the center of the 2008 trial to testify in this case. Derrel McDavid, Mr. Kelly, had said in an earlier lawsuit that she had actually been 17, the age of consent in Illinois. Bonjean highlighted the fact that the woman at the center of the 2008 trial now has an immunity deal with prosecutors that protects her from perjury charges related to lying to the grand jury at the time. Lawyers for both of the men had argued that they were merely doing their jobs, as directed by Mr. But over the weeks of the trial, prosecutors portrayed Mr. Freeman said that over a period of several years, he had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mr. The federal trial in Chicago carried echoes of a state trial held in Illinois in 2008, in which a jury acquitted Mr. Kelly also did not testify at the trial, and left his defense in the hands of his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean, who argued that her client was being prosecuted because of a rush to judgment precipitated by the #MeToo movement. Courthouse in downtown Chicago, the woman took the stand, identified herself as the young girl in the video and testified that the singer had persuaded her to lie to the grand jury.

Un jurado federal declaró culpable el miércoles a R. Kelly de varios cargos por pornografía infantil y abuso sexual en su ciudad natal de Chicago, ...

Brown, quien fue asociado de Kelly por años, fue absuelto de recibir pornografía infantil. También fue declarado inocente de tres cargos por asociación delictuosa para recibir pornografía infantil y dos cargos más por incitar a menores. Una de las preguntas era sobre si tenían que concluir que Kelly incitó y forzó a menores o los incitó o forzó.

Alexandra Ferguson. (CNN) — R. Kelly fue condenado por múltiples cargos de pornografía infantil en un juicio federal en Chicago y fue absuelto de otros, ...

Derrel McDavid, antiguo contador y administrador de negocios de Kelly, fue acusado de conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil, recepción de pornografía infantil y conspiración para obstruir la justicia. “El jurado encontró lo que sabíamos todo el tiempo. “Si este jurado llegó a la conclusión de que era culpable de los tres primeros cargos, ¿les importaría lo suficiente como para considerar las pruebas del resto? Milton “June” Brown, antiguo asistente de Kelly, fue acusado de conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil. “El veredicto fue mixto, pero ganamos más cargos de los que perdimos”, dijo Bonjean fuera del tribunal tras el veredicto. Bonjean dijo que está considerando presentar una apelación.

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En junio, el artista fue sentenciado a 30 años de prisión, nueve meses después de que fuera declarado culpable por cargos federales de crimen organizado y ...

Muchos piensan que la condena de Kelly en Nueva York no puede entenderse sin el movimiento #MeToo. Esta es una victoria para sus víctimas, la justicia y para los futuros sobrevivientes de agresión sexual”, dijo Breon Peace, fiscal federal, tras la sentencia. El cantante de R&B R.

Mr. Kelly is already serving a 30-year prison sentence. He was convicted last year on racketeering and sex trafficking charges in federal court in Brooklyn, ...

But in this trial, the woman, now 37, testified that it had been her in the video and said that Mr. As in the Brooklyn case, in which he was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges, Mr. The young woman said to be in that video did not testify in the 2008 trial, and told a grand jury years ago that it was not her in the tape. The 12-person jury will also announce verdicts on charges against two former employees of Mr. Kelly to walk free until he was hit with a slew of federal and state charges in 2019 in New York and Illinois. Kelly, the former R&B star who was accused of coercing minors into sex, producing child sexual abuse imagery and obstructing an earlier investigation, Joseph Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for the prosecution, said Wednesday.

R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Courts Building following a hearing on June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images. A ...

They also suggested that at least one of his accusers was 17 — the age of consent in Illinois — when Kelly began pursing her for sex. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. At Kelly's Chicago home later that year, Pauline described her shock when she said she first walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane. Some jurors in the 2008 trial said they had to acquit Kelly because the girl in the video didn't testify. Another accuser, Pauline, said Jane introduced her to Kelly when they were 14-year-old middle school classmates in 1998. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents Kelly was going to be her godfather. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls," she said. A conviction of just one count of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Brown, a Kelly associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child pornography. He was found not guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child pornography and for two further enticement charges. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover child pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril.

It took 11 hours for jurors in the R&B star's trial to reach their decision, finding Kelly guilty on six of 13 counts.

The morning after the concert, she said Kelly visited her in a hotel room, touched her breasts and began to masturbate. In a third studio incident, she said Kelly told her he’d return with a present — and came back with Jane, who was naked. “One of those people got on the stand and told about the horrific conduct that occurred in that case,” Lausch said. And once, in the “wee hours” at the studio, she said Kelly groped her on a couch. Tracy, now 40, said she was 16 when she was introduced to Kelly in 1999 by her boss during an internship at Epic Records. One day, she said she discovered Jane naked in a room with Kelly, who claimed to be checking Jane for bruises. Then, she said Kelly threatened to tell her mother that she’d kissed a boy. Jurors in the latest trial saw snippets of the video from Kelly’s 2008 trial and two others. Jane turned 14 in 1998, when she said the abuse started. Jane said she asked Kelly to be her godfather one day during a session at Kelly’s recording studio. That’s where she said she first met Kelly, who at the time was nearing the peak of his stardom. Lausch said the feds were “disappointed” in the not-guilty verdicts, though.

R. Kelly fue condenado por múltiples cargos de pornografía infantil en un juicio federal en Chicago y absuelto de otros.

Derrel McDavid, antiguo contador y administrador de negocios de Kelly, fue acusado de conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil, recepción de pornografía infantil y conspiración para obstruir la justicia. Milton "June" Brown, antiguo asistente de Kelly, fue acusado de conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil. “El jurado encontró lo que sabíamos todo el tiempo. "Si este jurado llegó a la conclusión de que era culpable de los tres primeros cargos, ¿les importaría lo suficiente como para considerar las pruebas del resto? "El veredicto fue mixto, pero ganamos más cargos de los que perdimos", dijo Bonjean fuera del tribunal tras el veredicto. Bonjean dijo que está considerando presentar una apelación.

Un jurado federal en Chicago condenó el miércoles al cantante de R&B R. Kelly por cargos de pornografía infantil.

El veredicto marcó la segunda condena penal de Kelly en el último año. Kelly fue acusado en julio de 2019 de producir y recibir pornografía infantil, atraer a menores para tener relaciones sexuales y obstrucción de la justicia. Kelly”, Jane se acercó repetidamente a Kelly, pero él nunca trató de influir en ella de ninguna manera. Los fiscales han dicho que Jane mintió al gran jurado estatal que investigó esa cinta, alegando que ella no era la niña representada y que ella y Kelly nunca habían tenido una relación sexual. Kelly y sus dos coacusados, Milton “June” Brown y Derrel McDavid, también fueron absueltos de los cargos de conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil. Cuando fue declarado no culpable del último de los cargos en su contra, McDavid se puso de pie y lanzó ambos puños hacia el techo.

Un tribunal de Chicago considera culpable al ídolo caído del soul, que ya fue condenado en junio a 30 años de prisión por abusos y tráfico sexual.

En ese tiempo, y pese a su fama, era habitual verlo en un McDonald’s de Chicago al que iba, recuerdan los testigos, a la caza de estudiantes de un instituto cercano. Las primeras sospechas de Kelly provienen de los 90, sus años de mayor gloria, cuando era una superestrella del R&B, estilo musical de consumo esencialmente estadounidense que actualizó el soul en la última década del siglo. En el segundo proceso, que arrancó el pasado mes de agosto, la fiscalía afirmó que llegó a ofrecer hasta un millón de dólares por recobrar esas pruebas de sus crímenes. Los hechos por los que se le ha condenado a Kelly este miércoles ya fueron objeto de un juicio, después de que en 2002 el video llegó a ojos de un periodista musical de Chicago, Jim DeRogatis. Según la acusación, el primer silencio de Jane se debió a una conspiración criminal de Kelly y sus secuaces para convencerla a ella y a otras chicas a las que grabaron entonces de no cooperar con la justicia. [un juez de Nueva York lo condenó a 30 años de cárcel ](https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-06-29/el-cantante-de-rb-r-kelly-condenado-a-30-anos-de-carcel-por-abusos-y-trafico-sexual-en-nueva-york.html)por nueve cargos por abusos y tráfico sexual, nueve meses después de que un tribunal lo hallase culpable en un juicio enormemente mediático en el que se escucharon durante semanas los testimonios de 45 de sus víctimas, que lo pintaron como a un hombre poderoso que se servía de su fama para, con la ayuda de sus colaboradores, tejer una red de abusos, a menudo cometidos con menores.

The trial was, in ways, a do-over of Kelly's 2008 child pornography trial, with a key video critical to both. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted ...

Three of the child porn charges that Kelly was convicted of Wednesday were related to that video and others depicting Jane. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. He told reporters that, when you add up the potential punishments on the six guilty counts, Kelly was staring at at least 10 years and up to 90 in prison. Bonjean, Kelly’s attorney, told jurors in her closings that the government had relied, in some cases, on liars and and blackmailers as witnesses. Kelly trial at https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to the Grammy Award winning singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. Milton Brown, the other co-defendant, was acquitted of receiving child pornography. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday’s verdict but otherwise showed little emotion.

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty on Wednesday on multiple charges of child pornography and luring underage girls to have sex with him but not guilty of ...

Kelly and McDavid were also acquitted on charges they conspired to obstruct justice in an earlier case. During the five-week trial, several women took the stand and told jurors that Kelly sexually abused them when they were minors. District Court in Chicago came after jurors deliberated for 11 hours over two days.

McDavid testified that he followed lawyers' advice as he helped coordinate payoffs ahead of Kelly's 2008 child porn trial — payments federal prosecutors ...

to see what’s happening across Chicago’](https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/9/14/23353224/darren-bailey-washington-park-shooting-governors-election-protest-rainbow-push-hancock-pritzker) [Man charged with fatal stabbing at Loop CTA stop said victim ‘might still be alive’ if he hadn’t struggled: prosecutors](https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/9/14/23353904/man-charged-fatal-stabbing-loop-cta-stop-victim-might-be-alive-if-he-hadnt-struggled-prosecutors) However, she cooperated with the federal investigation that began in 2019 and, now 37, was the star witness against Kelly this time around. Kelly verdict: Singer guilty in federal trial in Chicago, bringing closure to decadeslong legal saga](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/9/14/23347858/r-kelly-verdict-trial-chicago-2022) [Bailey visits South Side mass shooting scene: ‘It breaks my heart ... McDavid faced charges of helping coordinate a decades-long cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by Kelly, with the help of Brown, who was also acquitted Wednesday on the single count he faced in the trial. “These two men are the heirs to the throne.” Though he died in 2020, Genson was a key figure in McDavid’s defense. Kelly, as the singer faced allegations of sexually abusing underage girls in the early 2000s. [people in the courtroom](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/10/23292554/r-kelly-chicago-trial-2022-people-who-in-courtroom-attorneys-lawyers-judge)and view a [timeline of Kelly’s alleged crimes](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/5/22566858/r-kelly-timeline-trial-chicago-criminal-sexual-abuse-child-pornography). Margolis and Palladino, too, are now dead. Genson, I loved all my lawyers, all my friends,” McDavid said to a phalanx of cameras in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse lobby after the verdict. [Sun-Times’ original reporting on Kelly](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/30/22602359/chicago-sun-times-r-kelly-investigation-trial-2008-newspaper-stories), including the story that [led to the singer’s first indictment in 2002](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/2/8/22595297/r-kelly-sex-tape-14-year-old-2002-chicago-sun-times-jim-derogatis-abdon-pallasch). [why this trial is happening in the wake of Kelly’s New York sentence](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/14/23300072/r-kelly-chicago-trial-jury-child-pornography-charges-prison-sentence-aaliyah-derogatis-sex-tape)and how it connects to his [2008 Chicago trial](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2008/6/14/22600704/r-kelly-first-trial-2008-outcome-not-guilty-chicago).

Se espera que el nuevo veredicto agregue años de prisión a la ya larga condena que pesa sobre él por delitos similares.

para abusar sexualmente de ellas. Pero Jane, que ahora tiene 37 años, confirmó el mes pasado que era la persona que aparecía en ese video. "¿Quién usa a una niña de 14 años para filmar un video así? "¿Quién hace eso?" El juicio de 2008 fue sobre un video de 30 minutos en el que Kelly abusaba de una adolescente de 14 años. El jurado halló al cantante de R&B, de 55 años, culpable de seis de los 13 cargos que pesaban contra él tras un juicio que duró cuatro semanas en Chicago, su ciudad natal.

Un jurado federal declaró culpable al astro del R&B R. Kelly de tres cargos de pornografía infantil y tres cargos por incitar a menores a tener sexo en su ...

También dieron a entender que al menos una de sus acusadoras tenía 17 años, la edad para el consentimiento en Illinois — cuando Kelly se interesó por ella. Otra acusadora, Pauline, dijo que Jane la presentó con Kelly cuando tenían 14 años y eran compañeras de secundaria en 1998. Los fiscales presentaron al jurado fragmentos de tres videos que Jane dijo que la incluían. Jane testificó que cuando sus padres confrontaron a Kelly a comienzos de la década del 2000, él se arrodilló y les pidió perdón. Poco después, Jane dijo a sus padres que Kelly iba a ser su padrino. Uno de los cargos por los que fue absuelto McDavid, era asociación delictuosa con Kelly para arreglar su juicio de 2008. En el juicio federal en Chicago, Jane dijo al jurado que tenía 15 años cuando tuvieron sexo por primera vez. Jane, de 37 años, era la testigo principal del gobierno y crucial para el cargo sobre la manipulación del juicio. El caso era, de alguna manera, la repetición del juicio por pornografía infantil contra Kelly de 2008, y un video fue crucial para ambos. Un juez podría ordenar que Kelly cumpla su nueva sentencia simultáneamente o después de que su primer periodo sea cumplido. Las acusadoras de Kelly que testificaron usaron seudónimos o sus nombres sin su apellido: Jane, Nia, Pauline y Tracy. Los otros dos acusados en el juicio, su antiguo mánager Derrel McDavid y su asociado Milton Brown, fueron absueltos de todos los cargos.