Legendary singer R. Kelly has formally requested a sentence commutation from U.S. President Donald Trump. Recall that the musician is currently serving a 31-year sentence for several child sex abuse-related convictions.
According to records from the White House’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, a request for a sentence commutation was recently submitted by Robert Sylvester Kelly, the former R&B superstar’s full name.
Kelly’s attorney, Beau Brindley, last year filed an emergency motion seeking a new trial, claiming that prison guards at FCI Butner in North Carolina had plotted to murder him.
The artist was convicted twice in federal court after the government accused him of running a criminal enterprise “whose mission was to serve his sexual gratification,” which included transporting minors across state lines for sex and producing child sex abuse material.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968. He became president of his father’s real-estate business in 1971 and renamed it the Trump Organization. He expanded its operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses and later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series The Apprentice. He and his businesses have been plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies.
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City, the fourth child of Fred Trump, a Bronx-born real-estate developer whose parents were German immigrants, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, an immigrant from Scotland. Trump grew up with older siblings Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth and younger brother Robert in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, and attended the private Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade.
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