Seeking to reverse his 2021 convictions or to win him a new trial, his lawyer tried to persuade judges that prosecutors improperly used a racketeering statute written to shut down organized crime to go after the singer
R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organizations – even college fraternities – could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the R&B superstar at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including children, for decades.
“This was not a collection of people who had a purpose to recruit girls for sexual abuse or child pornography,” Bonjean said. “Whether they turned a blind eye, whether some of them suspected that some of these girls were underage, that’s a whole different matter. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kayla Bensing said Kelly’s network of aides and employees were part of the singer’s “system in place that lured young people in to his orbit” before he “took over their lives.”
“What evidence is there that staff who arranged these things knew that they were underage? asked Circuit Judge Denny Chin. “Members of the enterprise heard Kelly beat his girlfriends, they knew that Kelly was isolating his victims and they helped him do it, including by enforcing his punishments such as watching over them while they were confined to a bus for prolonged periods of time,” she added.
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