ResolvedPriorityCriminal · Racketeering and sex-offence convictions· E.D.N.Y. (Brooklyn) / N.D. Ill. (Chicago)
United States v. Robert Sylvester Kelly (2019)
R. Kelly was convicted of racketeering and Mann Act violations in Brooklyn in 2021 and of child-pornography and enticement counts in Chicago in 2022, drawing a combined 30-year term.
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Timeline
- 2021
A Brooklyn jury convicts on all nine counts.
- 2022
He is sentenced to 30 years; a Chicago jury convicts on six of thirteen counts.
- 2023
A further 20-year Illinois sentence runs largely concurrently.
- 2025
The Seventh Circuit affirms the Chicago convictions.
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