For the second time in less than a year, Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly finds himself convicted of serious federal child sex crimes and staring at a lengthy prison term.
The latest conviction came in U.S. District Court in Kelly’s hometown, where a jury on Wednesdayof sexually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter on videotape back in the 1990s, as well as sexual misconduct with two other minors around the same time period.
Federal prosecutors in both Chicago and New York are asking that Kelly be forced to pay millions in restitution to victims and other penalties. Kelly also has a $4 million default judgment against him in a Cook County lawsuit filed by an accuser and is embroiled in an ongoing battle over the seizure of $30,000 in funds from his prison commissary account.
John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, center, prepares to speak to the media at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after verdicts were reached in the trial of R. Kelly on Sept. 14, 2022. “You can bet your bottom dollar that John Lausch and his office believe that the obstruction occurred,” said Mariotti, who is now in private practice. “They wouldn’t have charged it if they didn’t. ... Their view will be that this evidence is part of the history and characteristics of Mr. Kelly.”
Mariotti said that doesn’t mean the Chicago prosecution was a waste of time or taxpayer money. He said Kelly has a chance in his appeal of the rather unusual racketeering case in New York as well as the extremely harsh sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly, which was well above what even prosecutors there were asking for.
Another involved new footage of Kelly allegedly sexually abusing his goddaughter, who was at the center of that trial as well as the recent federal case in Chicago. At that trial, she testified under the pseudonym “Jane.” After saying that, he set the date for Kelly’s first Cook County trial in September 2020. That did not happen, at least partially because the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
The allegations in two of the county indictments overlap significantly with Kelly’s federal cases. Pace was a central witness in the New York trial last year. And the video on which Cook County prosecutors based one of their cases was also at the center of his Chicago federal trial.
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