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the district judge Ann M Donnelly ruled that R.Kelly must pay $27,828 in “full and timely restitution” from your jail accountafter being imposed in June a 30-year prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual exploitation of minors, blackmail, bribery and sex trafficking.
The prosecution said: “The defendant has accumulated nearly $30,000 in his inmate trust account over the last three years of his incarceration. He has not made any payment of the large criminal monetary sanctions imposed on him in the sentence, despite the fact that the payment was to be made immediately.”
Judge Donnelly advocated that the Bureau of Prisons release the contents of her account until she determines the exact amount that should be released to her victims. “The government is entitled to the defendant’s funds because it owes substantial fines. I am also aware of the victims’ rights ‘to full and timely restitution,’” he warned.
His ruling continued: “Once restitution is determined by the court, the clerk must apply the money held in the account with interest, first to the $900 special assessment and then to the restitution judgment.”
R.Kelly -whose real name is Robert Sylvester– and his legal team have already shown their intention to appeal the sentence, stating that they plan to get the “immediate return” of the money. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean told the newspaper Washington Post: “We plan to appeal.”
The singer is tried in his hometown, Chicago, where faces 13 counts of production of child pornography, conspiracy to produce child pornography, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The music star has denied the allegations.
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