In 2022, the singer, R. Kelly, was sentenced to 30 years in prison due to decades of alleged sexual assault. This Monday (March 18), the singer’s attorney urged a federal appeals court to overturn the convictions made against Kelly. The lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, warned the court that this current case against Kelly allegedly pushed these federal racketeering laws “to the point of absurdity”.

Bonjean stated that prosecutors are using these laws in “preposterous” ways. She goes on to defend Kelly and his team/employees by stating that they allegedly did not know the girls they allegedly lured and allegedly abused were allegedly underage.

Bonjean argued, “The government has extended the RICO statute to a set of circumstances that is so beyond what the framers intended, which was to get at organized crime. Now, we’re talking about an organization with an alleged criminal, but not organized crime.”

Bonjean continues to attempt to convince the judges that their use of this act is wild and allegedly unlawful. However, many judges and people of power are not seeing eye to eye with her including Assistant US Attorney Kayla Crews Bensing and Judge Richard J. Sullivan. Bensing stated, “The defendant had a system in place that lured young people into his orbit and then took over their lives.” They both had words to say that leaned towards the side of claiming that Kelly is allegedly guilty of these alleged crimes.