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R. Kelly's manager faces trial over theater-emptying threat

The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater

The Independent UK

Trial of 4 charged in ComEd bribery case rescheduled for March

The four are accused of arranging for then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s associates and allies to get jobs, contracts and money in order to influence Madigan as key legislation worked its way through Springfield.

Chicago Sun-Times

Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly back in Chicago for sex trial

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking

The Independent UK

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R. Kelly back in Chicago’s federal jail ahead of trial next month

CHICAGO — After being held for more than a year in Brooklyn, Chicago-born R&B star R. Kelly was back at the federal jail in the Loop on Wednesday in advance of his second criminal trial set for next month.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly ‘engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage’

Gerald Griggs, an attorney for Ms Savage’s family, said the engagement was not known to her family

Evening Standard

R. Kelly reportedly got engaged to one of his alleged victims before his sentencing

R. Kelly was convicted of multiple sex-trafficking crimes in September and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last month. But before he was sentenced, one of his alleged victims claimed the two are actually engaged, and that he's anything but an abuser.

Los Angeles Times

R Kelly reportedly engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage: ‘Robert and I are deeply in love’

‘We have a very special connection and are deeply in love,’ the alleged victim wrote in letter to federal judge

The Independent UK

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Highland Park shooting suspect’s father ‘may have certain responsibility’ for attack police warn

Bob Crimo sponsored son’s firearms licence despite police being called to family home two months earlier because he threatened to ‘kill everyone’

The Independent UK

Highland Park suspect Robert Crimo’s parents being made scapegoats for gun control failures, attorney says

Crimo’s parents hired attorney Steve Greenberg, who also represents R Kelly

The Independent UK

R Kelly taken off suicide watch in prison after 30-year sentence

R Kelly has been removed from suicide watch in prison, after the singer previously claimed the protective treatment was a form of punishment.

Evening Standard

R Kelly taken off suicide watch in US jail after receiving 30-year sentence

Kelly is due to return to court on August 15 to stand trial on charges related to possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice

Wales Online

R. Kelly taken off suicide watch at Brooklyn federal jail

NEW YORK — R. Kelly was taken off of suicide watch Tuesday after the convicted R&B singer complained that officials at Brooklyn’s federal jail placed him in isolation for no reason.

Tribune News Service

In reversal, prosecutors say R. Kelly off suicide watch

Prosecutors say R. Kelly is no longer on suicide watch following the jailed R&B singer's sentencing in a federal sex abuse case

The Independent UK

R&B singer R. Kelly removed from suicide watch at Brooklyn jail

RB singer R. Kelly, who was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison following his sex trafficking conviction, was removed from suicide watch on Tuesday morning at the Brooklyn jail where he is being held, federal prosecutors said.

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The Guardian - US

Prosecutors defend decision to place R Kelly under suicide watch

Attorneys for the Brooklyn detention center where the singer is being held say he matches the criteria to be put under supervision

The Independent UK

R Kelly remains on suicide watch ‘for his own safety’, authorities say

The US Attorney’s Office said Kelly remains on suicide watch ‘for his own safety’

Tribune News Service

R. Kelly on suicide watch ‘for his own safety,’ not as punishment, feds say

R. Kelly was put on suicide watch to keep him safe, despite the disgraced R&B star’s insistence in a lawsuit the move was done “as a form of punishment,” federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Sunday.

The Independent UK

Feds: R. Kelly remains on suicide watch 'for his own safety'

Federal authorities are pushing back on claims that R. Kelly was placed on suicide watch as a form of punishment last week after a judge sentenced him to 30 years behind bars for using his fame to sexually abuse young girls

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Chicago Tribune

Long sentence in New York calls into question how R. Kelly’s Chicago cases might proceed

CHICAGO — The charges against R. Kelly came down like an avalanche: First, four indictments in Cook County. Another in Minnesota. Then a one-two punch of federal cases in Chicago and Brooklyn.

Daily Record

Devious sex offenders don't always fit the stereotype, female predators like Maxwell exist

The majority of sex offenders are male but in the last few years the numbers of female predators has been growing.

Tribune News Service

R. Kelly put on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s federal jail

NEW YORK — R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at Brooklyn’s federal jail following his 30-year sentence for sex trafficking — and his lawyer says the disgraced R&B star has no business being there.

The Independent UK

R Kelly placed on suicide watch after being sentenced for sex trafficking, lawyer says

The disgraced R&B singer’s legal team says he’s not suicidal, but was put on watch for ‘punitive reasons’

Evening Standard

Emily Sheffield: Abuse by the powerful like R Kelly and Maxwell happens when others are silent: it can’t go on

There are many disturbing examples of abuses of power we are contending with this week. It’s not just powerful individuals preying on the weak, but the power structures and influential figures around these individuals that deserve our attention. They enabled the continuation of that abuse. Either they did so for…

Los Angeles Times

'Surviving R. Kelly' helped bring singer down. But #MeToo 'blowback' is real, producer says

R&B icon R. Kelly on Wednesday was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a U.S. district judge for racketeering and sex trafficking, 26 years after the first accusation of sex with an underage girl was brought against the singer.

The Independent UK

R Kelly sentencing - live: R&B singer on suicide watch after getting 30 years in prison for sex trafficking

Prosecutors had called 25 years behind bars in order to ‘protect the public’

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