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Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Emails sent from R. Kelly prosecutor’s burner account to author of singer’s book at issue as trial looms

CHICAGO — The Chicago federal case against R. Kelly took yet another strange twist Wednesday when it was revealed that the onetime lead prosecutor used a burner email account and a fake name to communicate with the author of a book on Kelly’s sexual misconduct.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly prosecutor accused of using fake name, private email to communicate with journalist

The claim by attorneys for former Kelly worker Derrel McDavid landed less than two weeks before Kelly is set to go on trial in Chicago’s federal court on Aug. 15.

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R Kelly’s sisters refuse to acknowledge victims and say sex abuse sentence was 'racist'

Disgraced 90s singer R. Kelly, 55, was branded a 'predator' who used his fame to 'prey on the young, the vulnerable, and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification' following his conviction

Daily Mirror

Self-described R. Kelly manager pleads guilty to stalking

A self-described manager and adviser to singer R. Kelly has pleaded guilty to an interstate stalking charge

The Independent UK

R. Kelly's manager faces trial over theater-emptying threat

The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater

The Independent UK

Trial of 4 charged in ComEd bribery case rescheduled for March

The four are accused of arranging for then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s associates and allies to get jobs, contracts and money in order to influence Madigan as key legislation worked its way through Springfield.

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Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly back in Chicago for sex trial

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking

The Independent UK

R. Kelly back in Chicago’s federal jail ahead of trial next month

CHICAGO — After being held for more than a year in Brooklyn, Chicago-born R&B star R. Kelly was back at the federal jail in the Loop on Wednesday in advance of his second criminal trial set for next month.

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly ‘engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage’

Gerald Griggs, an attorney for Ms Savage’s family, said the engagement was not known to her family

Evening Standard

R. Kelly reportedly got engaged to one of his alleged victims before his sentencing

R. Kelly was convicted of multiple sex-trafficking crimes in September and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison last month. But before he was sentenced, one of his alleged victims claimed the two are actually engaged, and that he's anything but an abuser.

Los Angeles Times

R Kelly reportedly engaged to alleged victim Joycelyn Savage: ‘Robert and I are deeply in love’

‘We have a very special connection and are deeply in love,’ the alleged victim wrote in letter to federal judge

The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting suspect’s father ‘may have certain responsibility’ for attack police warn

Bob Crimo sponsored son’s firearms licence despite police being called to family home two months earlier because he threatened to ‘kill everyone’

The Independent UK

Highland Park suspect Robert Crimo’s parents being made scapegoats for gun control failures, attorney says

Crimo’s parents hired attorney Steve Greenberg, who also represents R Kelly

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Evening Standard

R Kelly taken off suicide watch in prison after 30-year sentence

R Kelly has been removed from suicide watch in prison, after the singer previously claimed the protective treatment was a form of punishment.

Wales Online

R Kelly taken off suicide watch in US jail after receiving 30-year sentence

Kelly is due to return to court on August 15 to stand trial on charges related to possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice

Tribune News Service

R. Kelly taken off suicide watch at Brooklyn federal jail

NEW YORK — R. Kelly was taken off of suicide watch Tuesday after the convicted R&B singer complained that officials at Brooklyn’s federal jail placed him in isolation for no reason.

The Independent UK

In reversal, prosecutors say R. Kelly off suicide watch

Prosecutors say R. Kelly is no longer on suicide watch following the jailed R&B singer's sentencing in a federal sex abuse case

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Reuters

R&B singer R. Kelly removed from suicide watch at Brooklyn jail

RB singer R. Kelly, who was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison following his sex trafficking conviction, was removed from suicide watch on Tuesday morning at the Brooklyn jail where he is being held, federal prosecutors said.

The Guardian - US

Prosecutors defend decision to place R Kelly under suicide watch

Attorneys for the Brooklyn detention center where the singer is being held say he matches the criteria to be put under supervision

The Independent UK

R Kelly remains on suicide watch ‘for his own safety’, authorities say

The US Attorney’s Office said Kelly remains on suicide watch ‘for his own safety’

Tribune News Service

R. Kelly on suicide watch ‘for his own safety,’ not as punishment, feds say

R. Kelly was put on suicide watch to keep him safe, despite the disgraced R&B star’s insistence in a lawsuit the move was done “as a form of punishment,” federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Sunday.

The Independent UK

Feds: R. Kelly remains on suicide watch 'for his own safety'

Federal authorities are pushing back on claims that R. Kelly was placed on suicide watch as a form of punishment last week after a judge sentenced him to 30 years behind bars for using his fame to sexually abuse young girls

Chicago Tribune

Long sentence in New York calls into question how R. Kelly’s Chicago cases might proceed

CHICAGO — The charges against R. Kelly came down like an avalanche: First, four indictments in Cook County. Another in Minnesota. Then a one-two punch of federal cases in Chicago and Brooklyn.

Daily Record

Devious sex offenders don't always fit the stereotype, female predators like Maxwell exist

The majority of sex offenders are male but in the last few years the numbers of female predators has been growing.

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