CHICAGO — Sentencing for R&B star R. Kelly on his racketeering conviction in New York was postponed Tuesday, but the judge denied a request to wait until after his trial on federal charges in Chicago in August.
Kelly, 54, faces from 10 years to life in prison after being convicted Sept. 27 in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on racketeering conspiracy charges alleging he used his music career to further a criminal enterprise.
He had been scheduled for sentencing on May 4, but in a brief order posted to the docket Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly moved Kelly’s sentencing date to June 16, apparently because a presentence investigation report, which is relied upon in fashioning punishment, was just submitted Tuesday.
