R. Kelly was arrested last month on 10 counts of criminal sexual abuse and now, the case may suffer critical vulnerabilities due to new charges brought against prosecuting attorney Michael Avenatti.
According to TMZ, Kelly’s attorney Steven Greenberg told the celebrity news outlet Avenatti’s charges for attempted extortion of Nike, bank and tax fraud place the attorney’s credibility under scrutiny.
Kellz lawyer believes Avenatti’s legal woes present an issue of “chain of custody” as Cook County Investigators received two alleged sex tapes featuring Kelly engaging in lewd sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl from Avenatti.
Avenatti, who is representing at least one of the four alleged victims, shared purported screenshots from one of the sex tapes to his Twitter account on February 22.
TMZ’s sources claim Avenatti received the tapes from an alleged whistleblower with a history of extorting the dishonored R&B singer. Reportedly, the whistleblower recently confessed to prosecutors in Chicago for extorting nearly a million dollars from the singer’s team in the past to stop the public release of the tapes.
Greenberg also suggested the possibility the tapes were altered before they reached prosecutors is strong. He continued to infer even though Avenatti reportedly turned over two tapes to Cook County Investigators, he’s only aware of one.
His opposition of Avenatti and staunch support of Kelly isn’t surprising. Kelly’s lawyer has been open about his support of the singer’s innocence from the beginning.
“I think all of the women are lying, yes. This has become — hey, R. Kelly, I can say R. Kelly did something, (snaps) boom,” Greenberg told reporters in part on February 22.
“There was a press conference yesterday — Oh these two girls were assaulted by R. Kelly — and the lawyer stood there with a picture of LL Cool J,” Greenberg stammered on.
On February 25, Greenberg entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client. Though the recent charges against Avenatti pose a threat to the case, Greenberg will still be tasked with proving reasonable doubt to the jury in order to get Kelly off the hook.
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Theater at its finest. Distraction tool.
Dude. You are a DOOM hater. Please gosto a teeny pop magazine sight. Comment on Drake and Logic, fucking herb. No one wants to hear your both ass opinion.
& your a dick rider. Nothing worse than riding another Man’s nuts. It’s ok bub.
What the heck are you even saying. Read a book then come back with legible writing you ignorant turd!
U know what its not distracting me from the fact all these politicansand celebs men and woman are being caught or arrested for crimes and walking away from situations a normal person would get 10-life for. Include trump. Smollett. Cardib. Rkelly. That female pedo asia asante or w.e
I hear Chicago is dropping charges on folks left and right. Kelly has a chance.
Almost 1 million? Kelly is truly dumb. No blackmailer will ever stop once they get the first check. Never
Yeah. Putting potential evidence on social media as a prosecutor should get you disbarred and arrested for obstruction. Fucking ridiculous. I don’t care how guilty dude is.
Good. Free Kels. This is some bullshit anyway. They let the gay dude off, now let the GOAT off that shit.
Smollet then the goat Kelly? This would be un fuckin believable. And fuckin awesome! This has been a crazy year so far. Things will only get more interesting!
Avenatti is a fkn clown of a lawyer. Cares more about fame.
I would agree. Not much more I can add to that. Ok. Maybe I can add that Avenatti will one day play the role of the porn star. In Prison. LOL
I want to be R Kelly’s little girl
I want to smash your face
Smash my butthole
This trial is going to be interesting. Keep ya up Folk!!
63rd & Broadway S/S
Kelly is Innocent all the way and his fans support Kelly and his fans love you and support you all the way and your girlfriend support you all the way