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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Daily Mail
R Kelly denied release from prison just days after overdose
Disgraced singer R Kelly has been denied release from prison just days after his lawyers claimed he overdosed as a result of a botched murder plot. The former R&B star's legal team filed a motion on June 17 to have him sent to home confinement rather than being behind bars due to the 'imminent' threat to his life. But Judge Martha Pacold ruled that there was 'no legal basis for this court's jurisdiction' and threw the request out. The artist's lawyers claimed last week that Kelly had suffered an overdose after prison guards deliberately gave him too much anxiety medication. They also claimed that the 58-year-old, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was forcibly removed from hospital despite doctors finding blood clots in his legs that required surgery. Federal prosecutors rejected these allegations at the time as 'deeply unserious' and said the latest motion made 'a mockery' of the abuse suffered by Kelly's victims. They added that 'every convicted murderer, rapist, and terrorist will have a newfound shot at freedom' if Kelly was to be released from prison. Despite this and the recent rejection to have Kelly sent to home confinement, his lawyer Beau Brindley said he and his legal team would file a new motion based on what he called 'newly discovered evidence.' Mr Brindley said the request would also call for immediate bail 'pending its litigation'. 'We are not surprised by this ruling as we knew that technical jurisdiction would be a challenge under these circumstances,' Mr Brindley told USA TODAY. 'However, we had no choice but to act immediately given explicit evidence of a threat to Robert Kelly's life.' The news organisation said as of June 19, Mr Brindley and his team had not yet filed the new motion. Kelly was allegedly put in solitary confinement 'against his will' in response to a separate filing from his attorneys which claimed three prison officials hatched a plot to have him killed by a white supremacist gang. His legal team cited a sworn declaration from terminally ill inmate named Mikeal Glenn Stine in which he alleged the prison officials asked him to carry out the singer's murder. Kelly requested he be placed on house arrest for his crimes - which included convictions for child pornography and enticing minors for sex. Prosecutors called the attempt to be freed from his sex crimes sentence 'repugnant'. Stine, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood gang, alleged that high-ranking officials in the prison system offered him the opportunity to escape from prison and live out his final months as a 'free man' before his terminal illness kills him. In the filing, it was further alleged that Stine was pressured to carry out the killing in March when he was transferred to Kelly's unit, and was told by staff: 'You need to do what you came here for.' Stine said he stalked Kelly for months as he considered the assassination plot, but changed his mind and told the singer about the plan to kill him, according to the filing cited by The Independent. The singer's attorneys say they became aware of a second plot in June to have a different member of the Aryan Brotherhood kill both Kelly and Stine. Kelly's attorneys have also requested a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying the singer, 'does not have the luxury to wait for vindication from the Courts that will follow the exposure of the corruption at the heart of his prosecutions.' The attorneys previously claimed they 'are engaged in conversations with multiple persons close to the White House and to President Trump'. Kelly was convicted in 2021 and 2022 for racketeering, sex trafficking, child pornography and enticement. A New York City federal court sentenced him to 30 years in prison in 2022 and he was sentenced to 20 years in jail in a Chicago federal court the year after. Evidence at trial in New York included testimony from more than 10 victims, as well as video and DNA evidence. In the Chicago trial it emerged that Kelly enticed multiple underage girls to engage in sexual activity which he recorded. Kelly met his victims in the late 1990s and engaged in sex acts with them when they were as young as 14, 15 and 16 years old before covering up the acts. The singer has been behind bars since July 2019, and is now at the prison that housed late Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. He will be 78 when eligible for release in 2045. MailOnline approached The Bureau of Prisons for comment.
CBS News
21 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Judge denies R. Kelly's request to be placed on home detention, amid claims of prison murder plot
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday denied singer R. Kelly's bid to be released to home detention, ruling that she does not have the jurisdiction to rule on his attorneys' claims that federal authorities are plotting to kill him in prison. Earlier this month, Kelly's attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release to home detention, claiming his life is in danger as he serves a 30-year prison sentence for various sex crimes. The motion claims Kelly's former cellmate at the federal lockup in Chicago conspired with prison officials to steal mail between him and his attorneys, and turn it over to prosecutors before his trial on child pornography charges, in order to pit Kelly's former girlfriend against him. Kelly's attorneys also claimed prison officials recruited a fellow prison inmate, who is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, to kill Kelly in prison in North Carolina to prevent him from exposing the plot to steal his mail and turn witnesses against him. In addition to their motion asking a judge to place him on home confinement, Kelly's attorneys also made a public plea to President Trump to set him free. The federal judge now overseeing Kelly's criminal case in Chicago originally set a hearing for Friday, but on Thursday denied his motion, finding she does not have jurisdiciton to rule on his claims that the feds are plotting to kill him. U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold noted that, since he has already been convicted and sentenced, she has limited jurisdiciton over his case, essentially only if he is challenging his conviction or sentence. "Kelly is currently housed at FCI Butner, which is located in Butner, North Carolina—outside this judicial district," Pacold wrote. "Kelly has not demonstrated a legal basis for this court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, his emergency motion … is denied." In their formal response to Kelly's motion in court, federal prosecutors have called Kelly's claims of a plot to kill him "repugnant to the sentence that this court imposed for deply disturbing offenses." "Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for years of sexually abusing children and is using this Court's docket merely to promote himself despite there being no legal basis to be before this Court," prosecutors wrote earlier this week. Kelly's attorneys also have claimed that, since making his original emergency motion for release, he was given a life-threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials, and later removed from a hospital against his doctors' advice. Kelly, 58, was convicted in 2022 in Chicago of child pornography charges, accused of making videos of himself sexually abusing three teenage girls, including his 14-year-old goddaughter. Meantime, a federal jury in New York convicted Kelly of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2021, finding him guilty of running a criminal enterprise to sexually exploit young women and children. Federal appeals courts have upheld both convictions. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the New York case, and most of his 20-year sentence in the Chicago case is running concurrently to that prison term. The singer is serving his prison sentence at a medium-security federal correctional center in Butner, North Carolina, and is expected to be released on Dec. 21, 2045, when he would be nearly 79 years old.
CBS News
21 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Judge denies R. Kelly's request to be placed on home detention, citing lack of jurisdiction
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday denied singer R. Kelly's bid to be released to home detention, ruling that she does not have the jurisdiction to rule on his attorneys' claims that federal authorities are plotting to kill him in prison. Earlier this month, Kelly's attorneys filed an emergency motion seeking his immediate release to home detention, claiming his life is in danger as he serves a 30-year prison sentence for various sex crimes. The motion claims Kelly's former cellmate at the federal lockup in Chicago conspired with prison officials to steal mail between him and his attorneys, and turn it over to prosecutors before his trial on child pornography charges, in order to pit Kelly's former girlfriend against him. Kelly's attorneys also claimed prison officials recruited a fellow prison inmate, who is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, to kill Kelly in prison in North Carolina to prevent him from exposing the plot to steal his mail and turn witnesses against him. In addition to their motion asking a judge to place him on home confinement, Kelly's attorneys also made a public plea to President Trump to set him free. The federal judge now overseeing Kelly's criminal case in Chicago originally set a hearing for Friday, but on Thursday denied his motion, finding she does not have jurisdiciton to rule on his claims that the feds are plotting to kill him. U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold noted that, since he has already been convicted and sentenced, she has limited jurisdiciton over his case, essentially only if he is challenging his conviction or sentence. "Kelly is currently housed at FCI Butner, which is located in Butner, North Carolina—outside this judicial district," Pacold wrote. "Kelly has not demonstrated a legal basis for this court's jurisdiction. Accordingly, his emergency motion … is denied." In their formal response to Kelly's motion in court, federal prosecutors have called Kelly's claims of a plot to kill him "repugnant to the sentence that this court imposed for deply disturbing offenses." "Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for years of sexually abusing children and is using this Court's docket merely to promote himself despite there being no legal basis to be before this Court," prosecutors wrote earlier this week. Kelly's attorneys also have claimed that, since making his original emergency motion for release, he was given a life-threatening overdose of his medication by prison officials, and later removed from a hospital against his doctors' advice. Kelly, 58, was convicted in 2022 in Chicago of child pornography charges, accused of making videos of himself sexually abusing three teenage girls, including his 14-year-old goddaughter. Meantime, a federal jury in New York convicted Kelly of racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2021, finding him guilty of running a criminal enterprise to sexually exploit young women and children. Federal appeals courts have upheld both convictions. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the New York case, and most of his 20-year sentence in the Chicago case is running concurrently to that prison term. The singer is serving his prison sentence at a medium-security federal correctional center in Butner, North Carolina, and is expected to be released on Dec. 21, 2045, when he would be nearly 79 years old.
The Sun
a day ago
- The Sun
R. Kelly claims his ‘life remains in imminent danger' as prison officials ‘refuse to give him meds' for blood clots
R. Kelly claims his "life remains in imminent danger every minute" as prison officials have continued to "refuse to give him medication" for blood clots. The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal that the disgraced R&B singer, 58, who's in prison in North Carolina, has claimed he is still being denied blood thinners, despite his legal team's allegations that he has several blood clots, which had been diagnosed at Duke University hospital. 1 In a filing on Wednesday, his attorney, Beau Brindley, said he and Kelly's co-counsel had just met with the singer for four hours. In that conversation, Kelly's team claimed their client still hadn't been given life-saving medication after being diagnosed with blood clots last week. In the filing, his attorney said after returning "from the hospital with medically CONFIRMED blood clots, Mr. Kelly is still not getting his prescribed blood thinners." In the federal court filing, his team continued: "After the meeting and obtainment of a signed HIPAA waiver, counsel travelled to Duke University Hospital to seek medical documents that are quickly becoming critical. "We have confirmed Mr. Kelly's presence at Duke University Hospital. We have confirmed the overdose. We have confirmed the blood clots. "But we need the medical documents to support it, which require extensive bureaucratic procedural steps. Those were taken," the filing continued. As The U.S. Sun previously reported, Kelly was rushed to the hospital after allegedly being given an extra dose of his medication. Earlier this week, Kelly was hospitalized after overdosing on medication in prison. According to a filing by his attorney, the overdose occurred after prison staff at the Federal Correctional Institute Facility in North Carolina administered the medications. The musician, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is currently serving a 30-year sentence following his 2021 conviction on racketeering and sex trafficking charges in New York. On June 10, Kelly was placed in solitary confinement and given anxiety medication, his attorney Beau B. Brindley stated. He was later administered additional medications and instructed to take them, according to court documents reviewed by The Sun. However, three days later, Kelly reported feeling "faint" and "dizzy." Kelly's legal team accused prison officials of punishing him with isolation after he filed an emergency motion. The singer reported seeing "black spots in his vision" before he passed out and was rushed to Duke University Hospital on Friday. While in the ambulance, Kelly claims to have heard one of the prison officers say, "This is going to open a whole new can of worms," according to court documents. Kelly's legal team claimed that his deteriorating health was caused by being administered dangerously high doses of medication. While hospitalized, medical staff discovered blood clots in Kelly's legs and lungs and planned to keep him for surgery, according to his attorney, Beau B. Brindley. However, prison officials reportedly removed Kelly from the hospital and returned him to the facility, placing him back in solitary confinement. Kelly's defense attorney filed a motion on June 10, asking for his immediate release to escape an alleged murder-for-hire plot by prison officials and another inmate.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Bono Scores His First Hit In A Quarter-Century On One Chart
The vast majority of Bono's musical output has been tied to U2, the Irish rock band that made him a global superstar decades ago. The singer-songwriter does occasionally work on projects without his bandmates — sometimes in film and television, sometimes in support of his charitable endeavors, and very rarely in the music space. This week, Bono collects a new hit under his own name in the United States, one that returns him to a Billboard ranking he hasn't appeared on in a quarter century. Bono joins Lil Wayne on the track "The Days," which is featured on the rapper's latest album, Tha Carter VI. "The Days" lands on a handful of Billboard rankings in the U.S. this frame, becoming a top 40 win on multiple lists. Bono reaches the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally as "The Days" launches at No. 29. It's unusual to see a rock star like Bono appear on Billboard's list of the most consumed hip-hop and R&B tracks in America, but amazingly, "The Days" is not even his first placement. Bono was credited on Kirk Franklin's "Lean on Me," alongside fellow musicians Mary J. Blige, Crystal Lewis and The Family, and the highly controversial R. Kelly. That collaboration debuted on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in January 1999 and went on to peak at No. 26 — just a few spots above where the rocker lands this frame. Bono has not appeared on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ranking in more than a quarter century. "The Days" also appears on the Hot Rap Songs and Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts this week. The unlikely team-up isn't one of the bigger smashes from Tha Carter VI, but Bono's presence surely helped it reach a wider audience.
