It’s Not Just Sex Crimes for R. Kelly: The R&B star’s trial hinges on proving one count of racketeering -- a charge normally brought against mobsters.
Racketeering was established as a crime in 1970 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, designed to crack down on organized crime in the U.S.
Kelly, claimed Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Cruz Melendez in her opening statements, led a criminal enterprise where he enlisted his close associates to cover up his crimes while employing lawyers to distribute “hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush payments” to his alleged victims. Per the indictment brought against the singer in 2019, “The purposes of the Enterprise were to promote R. Kelly's music and the R.
The first witness to take the stand on Wednesday, Jerhonda Johnson Pace, provided testimony backing up the prosecution’s claim that Kelly was indeed the leader of an orchestrated criminal enterprise that preyed on young women and girls. During her time on the stand, Pace claimed that one of Kelly’s associates, Bubba, extended an invite to a party where the singer had sex with her despite learning that she was only 16, below the age of consent.
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