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Chicago prosecutors are accusing R. Kelly of intentionally misleading the judge in his child pornography case by asking to be allowed to leave town this weekend for a radio station-sponsored concert in New York City in which he's not even on the bill.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Kelly told Judge Vincent Gaughan that he was "one of the featured performers" for the show, which would've required him to be in the Big Apple on June 7 and
8. But, prosecutors say, they placed a call to the radio station hosting the concert and discovered that Kelly was not scheduled to appear.
"At the time [Kelly] presented his motion to the court, he was not scheduled to perform," Special Assistant State's Attorney Ellen Mandeltort tells the Sun-Times.
Prosecutors have routinely tried to ground Kelly, repeatedly asking that he be barred from leaving the state of Illinois since his indictment last year on 21 charges of child pornography stemming from an alleged videotaped sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Kelly told Judge Vincent Gaughan that he was "one of the featured performers" for the show, which would've required him to be in the Big Apple on June 7 and
8. But, prosecutors say, they placed a call to the radio station hosting the concert and discovered that Kelly was not scheduled to appear.
"At the time [Kelly] presented his motion to the court, he was not scheduled to perform," Special Assistant State's Attorney Ellen Mandeltort tells the Sun-Times.
Prosecutors have routinely tried to ground Kelly, repeatedly asking that he be barred from leaving the state of Illinois since his indictment last year on 21 charges of child pornography stemming from an alleged videotaped sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.