R. Kelly 'arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges'

[Johnny Wadd]

R. Kelly is in custody after being arrested in Chicago on sex trafficking charges, according to reports in the US.

There are said to be 13 charges against the singer, including child abuse images and obstruction of justice, according to the US Attorney's Office in Chicago.

The 52-year-old was arrested by NYPD and Homeland Security officials.

He's already pleaded not guilty to more than 20 sexual offences.

For two decades R. Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, has been accused of different sexual abuse allegations.

They've been brought back into the spotlight following the documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which detailed stories about him pursuing teenage girls going right back to the start of his career.

The R&B artist was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in February. He pleaded not guilty and has been released on bail.

Then in May he was charged with 11 more sexual offences, relating to sexual assault and abuse of a minor aged between 13 and 16, which he pleaded not guilty to last month.

It is not yet known whether the new federal charges are linked to the same cases.

A person can be charged with a federal crime if they've broken laws in more than one state. The charges are generally more severe than state charges.

R. Kelly has stood trial on sexual offences once, being acquitted of child pornography charges by a jury in 2008.

Newsbeat has contacted representatives for R. Kelly, as well as police in New York and the US Attorney's Office in Chicago.

POTUS is taking down all NXIVM members and Epstein tourists.The elites are shitting bricks and it's great to see their shitty MSM try to spin the narrative.

HOLD TIGHT.........................FAST RIDE

[MolokoPlusVellocet]

I'm expecting a spate of "suicides" and "tragic accidents" in the next few months.

[HSO]

[kellyhound]

A 13-count indictment released Friday in the Northern District of Illinois accused Kelly of videotaping himself having sex with at least four girls under the age of 18 beginning in 1998.

A few years later, after Kelly learned that some of those videos were missing from his "collection," he and others began paying "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to several people to recover them, the indictment says.

When they recovered the videos, the indictment states that Kelly and his associates directed people to take polygraph tests to ensure they had returned all copies of the videotapes.

hope this time he's the first of many that get properly sentenced.
Some goes for the fucker below

Jeffrey Epstein, the financier facing sex-trafficking charges in New York, was accused of witness tampering on Friday by federal prosecutors, who said he wired $350,000 to two people who were potential witnesses against him.

Epstein sent the money to the potential witnesses in late November and early December, shortly after The Miami Herald published an investigative report about a secret deal he had reached with authorities in Florida to avoid federal prosecution, prosecutors said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan made the new allegations in a court filing asking that Epstein be denied bail while he awaits trial, saying the payments were evidence that he might try to influence witnesses if he were not detained.

[SkinnyFella]

I've no doubt he's guilty, but throwing him to the wolves now feels like a distraction to cover the ones running the show.