R. Kelly will have to start rationing his snacks and stamped envelopes after losing his bid to reclaim the $27,828 seized from his inmate commissary account after his sex trafficking conviction in New York.
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Getty Imageshave to start rationing his snacks and stamped envelopes after losing his bid to reclaim the $27,828 seized from his inmate commissary account after hisThe “substantial” sum will instead go to a new interest-bearing account where it will cover a $900 court fine and then be applied to victim restitution once the court determines what the victims are owed, U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly wrote in a ruling Friday.
Such commissary accounts are used to buy extra food items, toiletries, phone cards and clothing beyond what’s otherwise provided.on September 27, 2021 after a six-week trial in Brooklyn. Judge Donnelly sentenced him to 30 years in prison on June 29, 2022 and ordered him to pay a flurry of fines and fees. His restitution due to the victims has not yet been determined, but early last month, prosecutors asked prison officials to freeze the nearly $28,000 in Kelly’s inmate account.
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