Do watch the interview, but

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:47:29 +0000

In reply to Judge sets R. Kelly's bond at $1 million in sexual abuse case

Do watch the interview, but this picture really is worth a thousand words. https://t.co/W2jAOfw2xO
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) March 6, 2019

Even if innocent of accusations: big messaging fail!

and probably more to come, as

artappraiser — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:19:27 +0000

In reply to Judge sets R. Kelly's bond at $1 million in sexual abuse case

and probably more to come, as I posted on an older thread yesterday, there is also a grand jury in SDNY after him as regards FBI & IRS investigations, and another possible one in EDNY spurred by Homeland Security sex trafficking investigations:

Federal Authorities Are Weighing Charges Against R. Kelly

By Jim DeRogatis @ NewYorker.com, February 21, 2019

[....] Last Thursday, The New Yorker reported that prosecutors in Illinois are moving to indict Kelly on charges related to a new tape depicting sex acts with an underage girl, and, over the weekend, it was confirmed that witnesses are being called to testify before a grand jury in Chicago. A second grand jury has been convened in the Southern District of New York, based on investigations by the F.B.I. and the I.R.S. Earlier this month, prosecutors issued a subpoena for Kelly’s former accountant and manager to testify, according to documents I was shown.

Meanwhile, the investigative division of the Department of Homeland Security, which investigates sex trafficking, has formed a squad with roughly two dozen members, which is devoted to compiling evidence about a wide range of alleged crimes by Kelly. An official connected to that probe says that the squad’s leadership plans to convene a third grand jury, in the Eastern District of New York, soon. In addition, officials in Fulton County, Georgia, have reactivated a stalled investigation that was originally spurred by two sets of parents who went to local law-enforcement officials because they believe that their daughters are being held by Kelly against their will, in what they describe as a “cult.”

The D.H.S. investigation is looking, in part, at charges that Kelly transported girls across state lines “for immoral purposes,” in violation of the White-Slave Traffic Act, from 1910, which is more commonly known as the Mann Act. (There’s an echo of pop-music history here: the rock-and-roll pioneer Chuck Berry was convicted under the same law, in 1960, and spent a year and a half in federal prison.) [....]

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Do watch the interview, but

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