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Chicago, Il — Settling sexual misconduct civil lawsuits became the “cost of doing business,” Derrel McDavid, R. Kelly’s former business manager and co-defendant in the disgraced singer’s federal child pornography trial at Dirksen U.S Courthouse, testified on Wednesday. The Cpa-turned-business-manager for R. Kelly began working with the singer in the early Nineties.

During McDavid’s time on the stand — he’s the only defendant to do so in the trial — he and one of his attorneys Beau Brindley detailed how McDavid grew to dismiss claims of sexual...

Chicago, Il — A large dose of courtroom drama closed out the second week of R. Kelly’s federal child pornography trial in Chicago at Dirksen U.S. courthouse with a witness who didn’t want to return to the stand for further cross examination, testimony from a man who claimed he was paid 100,000 to give R. Kelly a tape taken from him by Kelly’s ex, and at least one Kelly supporter that has been seen regularly attending the trial being thrown out of proceedings after repeated warnings to maintain decorum.

Chicago, Il — Charles Freeman claimed R. Kelly and his team made a verbal agreement to pay him 1 million to secure videos of the singer allegedly sexually assaulting a minor during his testimony on Tuesday and detailed a timeline and plan on how he claimed he did so during R. Kelly’s federal child pornography trial in Chicago at Dirksen U.S. courthouse. On Wednesday, the defense took Freeman to task on his claims for their cross-examination.

On Day Eight, attorneys for Kelly and his co-defendants — former business associates Derrel McDavid...

Jurors in R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago heard testimony from a fixer and lie detector test administrator Tuesday, Aug. 23, as prosecutors attempted to show how the disgraced singer and his associates allegedly tried to cover up and subvert previous sexual assault and child pornography allegations and investigations.

As the Chicago Tribune reports, the prosecution’s top witness today was Charles Freeman, a fixer of sorts, who did merchandise for Kelly in the Nineties and later became friends with the singer. According to Freeman, Kelly called him around 2001 with...