As R. Kelly trial approaches, prosecutors want to include alleged evidence of bribes and recordings of threats

(CNN) — With 2 weeks near until assemblage enactment is to statesman successful R. Kelly’s national racketeering trial, Brooklyn prosecutors are asking to admit further grounds of alleged crimes that were not charged successful their indictments of the singer, according to a Friday tribunal filing.

The filing details grounds from a witnesser who alleges Kelly, whose afloat sanction is Robert Kelly, asked her to get kid pornography involving boys for him. Further grounds includes recordings of carnal maltreatment and threats that Kelly allegedly utilized to “maintain power implicit women and girls” who helium had intersexual relationships with, and grounds of bribes allegedly made connected Kelly’s behalf to authorities and region workers.

An lawyer for Kelly said connected Monday his squad was reviewing the government’s submission and volition respond accordingly.

“This is thing much than a veiled effort to heap connected to further signifier the public’s cognition successful this lawsuit ignoring that Mr. Kelly is presumed guiltless until proven otherwise,” lawyer Tom Farinella said successful a statement. “The defence volition vigorously reason their requests. As the proceedings nears we are looking guardant to the information prevailing.”

In Friday’s filing, prosecutors inquire the justice who is overseeing Kelly’s August proceedings to let the grounds related to these alleged crimes to beryllium admitted arsenic nonstop grounds of racketeering crimes, saying that galore of the acts are “inextricably intertwined with the grounds of the charged crimes.”

Additional acts alleged successful the filing see aggregate instances of intersexual maltreatment against pistillate minors, arsenic good arsenic the intersexual maltreatment of a antheral minor, who prosecutors accidental Kelly met successful 2006 astatine a McDonald’s.

Many of the “uncharged acts” described successful the filing person been publically reported and are associated with different cases that Kelly faces successful his Illinois authorities transgression lawsuit and his Northern District of Illinois national case.

In the Brooklyn national case, Kelly is facing charges of racketeering and enactment trafficking, among others. He pleaded not guilty and assemblage enactment is expected to statesman connected Aug. 9.

One of the alleged bribes discussed successful the filing progressive paying a authorities idiosyncratic $500 to make an ID paper to marque a 15-year-old miss identified lone arsenic “Jane Doe 1” look to beryllium 18 years aged astatine the clip of her wedding to Kelly successful August 1994.

A root acquainted with the substance confirmed that Jane Doe 1 is the precocious singer Aaliyah, who joined Kelly that year. Prosecutors said successful the filing that the matrimony application, licence and certificate each amusement the miss was 15 years aged erstwhile she joined Kelly connected Aug. 31, 1994. Aaliyah died successful 2001.

Another alleged bribe elaborate successful the filing purportedly took spot two-and-a-half decades later. Prosecutors said they person a signaling of a February 2019 telephone speech betwixt Kelly and a “crisis manager” that took spot aft the merchandise of the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”

Prosecutors allege that successful the recorded conversation, Kelly asks the manager to find retired “what I should extremity the bailiff.” Prosecutors accidental aboriginal successful the speech the manager told Kelly helium paid a clerk successful Cook County, Illinois, $2,500 to get a “burner” telephone truthful the manager could get accusation astir the singer’s ineligible trouble.

“That’s done … you don’t cognize nothing,” prosecutors said the manager told Kelly connected the call.

“Exactly,” Kelly allegedly responds.

Prosecutors say, if permitted, 1 witnesser is expected to attest that Kelly directed her to get kid pornography involving boys for him, and successful their filing authorities that aggregate videos were obtained from a instrumentality obtained during a hunt of Kelly’s location that corroborate her testimony.

However, their filing besides states the authorities has been “unable to corroborate the individuality oregon ages of the individuals appearing successful these videos.”

Prosecutors are besides asking to admit recordings that purportedly amusement carnal maltreatment and threats of antithetic women to amusement “the carnal and intelligence maltreatment Kelly employed to support power implicit women and girls with whom helium was engaged successful intersexual relationships and Kelly’s regular usage of audio and video recordings to support control.”

One is simply a video signaling that, prosecutors say, appears to person been taken by a camera mounted determination successful a bedroom.

Prosecutors besides inquire for aggregate victims to beryllium capable to attest nether pseudonyms to support their information and well-being.