Update – 12/06/2025, 14:07 ET: R. KellyThe lawyer Beau B. Brindley confirmed that the wrapped singer is looking for a presidential forgiveness Donald Trump.
“We are in open discussions with people close to President Trump. And these discussions have been expanded and intensified since we filed our motion,” said Brindley People On Thursday, June 12. “We believe that President Trump is the only person with courage to help us.”
Kelly, of 58 being convicted In federal positions of sex traffic and sex traffic, among other crimes.
Brindley requested an emergency court in Chicago on Tuesday, June 10, to free Kelly from a federal prison and to place it temporarily at home detention. Kelly’s lawyers claimed that the Federal Prisons Office (BOP) officials struck with an inmate to kill the musician behind the grilles.

R. Kelly in the Criminal Court Leighton in September 2019.
Antonio Pérez – Pool Via Getty ImagesBrindley claimed that prison officials reacted to their attempts to release the musician by putting Kelly in “lonely confinement.”
“He can’t make phone calls to his family. He has no access to the commissioner. He has spiders who crawl on him as he tries to sleep,” said Brindley.
Asleep later argued, “(Kelly) is not safe in federal custody. And keep it in prison while in threat as this is a cruel and unusual punishment.”
Said a spokesman for the federal prisons office Us That the agency “does not comment on the outstanding litigation or the affairs that are legal procedures”.
Kelly lived in the Trump Tower in Chicago. President Trump Headlines made In May, when he forgave the stars of reality Todd and Julie Chrisley After his sentence of 2022 for accusations included Bank fraud and tax evasion.
Trump has said that too Will not be ruled out granting mercy to rapper Sean “Diddy” CombsThat is currently in trial in New York City by indictment of sex traffic, transport to participate in prostitution and conspiracy. (Diddy, 55, did not declare himself guilty of all charges and denied all allegations against him.)
“I would certainly look at the facts,” Trump told journalists on May 30. “If I think someone was abused, whether I like it or not liked it would have no impact on me.”
Use weekly He has contacted the White House to get an answer.
Original story:
R. Kelly It is said that he is afraid of his life in the midst of the claims that the officials of the Federal Prisons Office (BOP) are colliding with an intern to kill him in the bars, according to various reports.
People, Variety and Billboard Report that Kelly legal team including lawyer Beau B. BrindleyHe filed an emergency motion in Chicago on Tuesday, June 10, requesting the singer “of ignition”, 58 years old released from a federal prison In Butner, North Carolina, and was put into arrest at Home in temporary Furlough.
Tuesday’s court submission claims that three BOP officials requested their partner Mikeal Glenn Stinewho claims to be a member of the Brotherhood Aria, assassinate Kelly and transferred him from a prison in Arizona to the same penitentiary – and unity – as a singer in March to carry out the deed, according to reports.
In an affidavit filed next to the motion, Stine stated that officials told him that Kelly and his legal team were planning to present alleged misconduct. (At the presentation, Kelly’s team accused prison officials of conspiring with Kelly’s former cell colleague to intercept the correspondence between him and his lawyers, violating client-attorney privilege, for Variety.)
Kline, who is ill, also claimed that officials were told that he would be a “free man” if he made the slaughter, a proposal he appealed to him because he did not have much time to live, according to reports. Kline said officials to tell him that they would help him escape custody and/or avoid conviction, according to People and Variety.
Stine stated that he was initially planning to carry out the plot of the murder and monitored Kelly for a few weeks, but he finally had a change of heart and alerted Kelly to danger.
Kelly’s lawyers said in their motion they recently met a plot to have a second member of the Ariana Brotherhood Mata both Kelly and Stine.
“The threat to Mr. Kelly’s life continues every day that no action is taken,” they wrote in the presentation. “More members of AB are accumulating at their installation. He has already approached more than one to carry out his murder. One of them will surely do what Mr. Stine does not have, thus burrowing the truth about what happened in this case with Robert Kelly.”
“The federal prison office does not comment on the outstanding litigation or the affairs that are the subject of legal procedures,” said a representative of the Federal Prison Office for Kelly Prison, FCC Butner, Use weekly In a statement on Wednesday, June 11.
Use weekly He has contacted the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, which encompasses Chicago for comments.
“The evidence we have in front of us demonstrates the DOJ weapon to pursue a public figure through corrupt and criminal means,” said Kelly Brindley’s lawyer Us In a statement. “The person in charge would have murdered Mr. Kelly instead of seeing his corruption exposed. This is precisely the type of fiscal corruption that the President (Donald) Trump has pledged to eradicate. We believe it is the only one with the power and courage to do it. And we will surely look for any help that can provide us in this struggle. “
The statement continued: “The persecution of public figures have become effort of all cost. Federal prosecutors have been consumed so gaining and destroying public figures who are willing to sacrifice the integrity of the process in the search for sentences. We are providing this motion and those that follow it with the aim of making sure they are not moving away.”
Kelly, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, is fulfilling 30 years in prison close their conviction of 2021 In a New York court for allegations that include sex traffic and attacks. Began his sentence the following year.
By 2023 it was Sentenced to another 20 years In a Chicago court room after a 2022 conviction For the possession of child pornography. The judge in the last sentence ruled that the majority of the second sentence would work simultaneously with his first sentence.
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