A crucial witness against R&B superstar R. Kelly struggled under cross-examination Monday as prosecutors in his latest trial turned jurors’ attention to an alleged early-2000s conspiracy to protect Kelly from swirling sexual abuse allegations.
After testimony last week focused on Kelly’s alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl in the 1990s, it instead revolved Monday around allegations of intimidation, payoffs and even lie detector tests — and included hours of testimony about bank and credit card records.
