R. Kelly trial: prosecutors to cross-examine singer's co-defendant, and former manager Derrel McDavid
Defense attorneys rested their case in R. Kelly's federal trial in Chicago on Friday, after a third day of testimony from the singer's co-defendant and business manager, Derrel McDavid, who prosecutors suggested had significant financial interest in protecting Kelly's reputation amid sexual abuse claims in the late 1990s and early 200s.
When federal prosecutors got their chance to finally question McDavid on Thursday, they suggested he was too close to Kelly during the years he worked for the singer to be ignorant of his actions, and noted he had significant financial interest in keeping Kelly's reputation clean. Jane and her parents denied the sexual abuse claims for years, but during the trial she and her mother testified Kelly and his team pressured them to lie about it, and paid them off to keep silent.
As they began their cross-examination of R. Kelly's former business manager, Derrel McDavid, federal prosecutors noted the four people he talked to about sexual abuse allegations against the singer, and helped him form his belief that the accusers were lying, are all dead – attorneys Ed Genson and Gerry Margolis, private investigator Jack Palladino, and the father of Kelly accuser"Jane." McDavid acknowledged that means he's the only one alive who can say what they discussed.
Turning to McDavid's previous testimony about Kelly facing a string of"cookie cutter" lawsuits from women accusing him of sexual misconduct in the late 1990s and early 2000s, McDavid acknowledged those claims could have been"deadly" to Kelly's career.
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