R&B singer R. Kelly, who received a 30-year prison sentence in New York in June for sex trafficking and racketeering, was acquitted in Chicago of charges alleging obstruction of justice stemming from a 2008 trial.
, including five counts of enticing a minor into criminal sexual activity and six related to child pornography — went another route by invoking two counts of conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation, allegations connected to Kelly’s 2008 trial that also took place in Chicago, his hometown.
In this year’s Chicago trial, prosecutors argued that Kelly and his associates conspired to bribe witnesses so they would not cooperate with the investigation years ago. The alleged victim from the videotape, now 37, testified for hours during the trial, in which she went by the name “Jane.” Contradicting the story she and her family stuck to until more recently, Jane testified that she was, in fact, the person seen alongside Kelly in the footage,.
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