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After more than 25 years of accusations and a federal court trial in New York that lasted seven weeks. Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted by a federal jury in New York on Monday of racketeering conspiracy and eight other counts alleging he headed a criminal enterprise that employed agents, runners, bodyguards and others to lure and trap girls and young women to satisfy his sexually predatory desires.
According to the New York Times, the guilty verdict on the main
racketeering count in the indictment was announced in U.S. District Judge Ann
Donnelly’s courtroom in Brooklyn. The jury, which heard from 50 witnesses over
the six-week trial, reached its verdict after deliberating for about nine hours
over two days
In addition to the main count of racketeering, the jury found
Kelly guilty on all eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits
travel over state lines for illegal sex.
Kelly, one of the biggest music stars Chicago has ever produced,
faces anywhere from 10 years to life in prison when he’s sentenced on May 4,
according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.
