Girl who posted R. Kelly’s bail desires her a reimbursement
R. Kelly’s mugshot
In information that needs to be surprising to nobody, it seems investing in R. Kelly is a nasty transfer. On Tuesday, a decide dominated that the girl who posted Kelly’s $100,000 bond in February is not going to be getting her a reimbursement.
The girl, recognized by the Chicago Solar-Occasions as Valencia Love, paid the troubled R&B singer’s bail as a result of Kelly struggled to provide you with the funds himself. Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, informed the decide that the singer’s funds are a “mess” as a result of his ongoing authorized points, so Love put up the cash herself. Now, although, Love is looking for a refund.
The cash initially assured Kelly’s freedom for about 4 months. That was sufficient time for him to go to McDonald’s and make an absolute clown of himself on CBS with Gayle King earlier than being arrested once more on federal prices in Chicago. Love informed a Cook dinner County decide that when she initially posted the bail, she had no data of the federal investigations in New York or Chicago — which is smart, as a result of they had been ongoing on the time and never public data.
As Kelly is presently being held with out bond on these federal prices, Love argued that the bail cash went in direction of nothing and needs to be returned. Choose Lawrence Flood naturally denied the movement, citing a scarcity of authorized precedent.
Amazingly, Love wasn’t really seeking to get the bail a reimbursement for her personal use; she wished to make use of it to assist Kelly cowl his different authorized charges. “At no level have I ever supported a pedophile,” Love argued when requested concerning the prices towards Kelly. “He has not been convicted but. Why is it so dangerous that I did a favor for a good friend?”
Additionally throughout Tuesday’s listening to, Choose Flood denied a movement from the Cook dinner County prosecutor looking for greater than the $100ok bail already posted. Seeing as Kelly is already in custody with out bond, Flood mentioned rising the charge within the felony case was “type of a moot level.”
Along with the on-going felony case, Kelly is dealing with 40-70 years in jail on federal prices in Illinois, on high of a federal indictment in Brooklyn and a latest Minnesota felony case filed in August. An investigation was additionally launched in Georgia after the Surviving R. Kelly docu-series aired. These are just some of the numerous allegations of sexual crimes towards Kelly. His Chicago trial is ready to start on April 27th.