Blank Becker during the first day of his defense in his sex trafficking case, Sept.... ” Shihata asked

Kelly is accused of being the ringleader of a criminal enterprise aimed at enabling his sexually predatory behavior, and the case against him is legally complex. Judge Ann Donnelly on Friday read jurors more than 80 pages of instructions on legal matters.... Lawyer Nicole Blank Becker, representing R. Kelly, outside the Brooklyn Federal Court House on Sept.... Prosecutors charged him under a statute that has toppled Mafia bosses and street gangs, alleging he was the head of a criminal organiza

In this courtroom sketch, R. Kelly, center, sits with his defense attorneys Thomas Farinella, top, and Nicole Blank Becker during the first day of his defense in his sex trafficking case, Sept.... “ They gotta try to bring home the bacon … But you can’t want it that bad.... Radio stations stopped playing his songs, venues canceled his shows....

She was confirmed by the Senate by a 95-2 vote on Oct.... She is chief of its Criminal Civil Rights Section and also serves as a liaison to the newly formed Civil Rights Team.... 18, saying Kelly “ began collecting girls and women like they were things, hoarding them like objects.” Melendez became deputy chief of the Criminal Civil Rights Section of the Eastern District of New York in April....

Faith, whose testimony began Tuesday, said the singer did not inform her that he had the incurable disease before they began having sex and that he often declined to use a condom.“ I said, ‘Are you going to use a condom?... , ’" she recalled asking Kelly during their first sexual encounter.... “ He said, ‘We don’t need a condom.’" Five of the accusers who have testified said that they were underage when their sexual encounters with Kelly began....