{"id":2442405,"date":"2019-04-01T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=816042"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:19:07","slug":"r-kellys-lawyer-seeks-emails-between-michael-avenatti-states-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/r-kellys-lawyer-seeks-emails-between-michael-avenatti-states-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly\u2019s Lawyer Seeks Emails Between Michael Avenatti, State\u2019s Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Following charges of fraud and extortion<\/a> against Michael Avenatti<\/a>, R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s legal team filed a motion seeking all communication between the celebrity lawyer \u2013 who represents<\/a> two of Kelly\u2019s alleged victims \u2013 and the Cook County State Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

In the motion, filed Monday, Kelly\u2019s lawyer Steve Greenberg argued that prosecutors, namely State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx, relied too heavily on evidence presented by Avenatti in order to secure the sexual abuse charges against Kelly.<\/p>\n

Greenberg also questioned, given Avenatti\u2019s current predicament, the authenticity of the allegations Avenatti brought to prosecutors. \u201cThe case laid dormant till Mr. Avenatti joined in. Then it was miraculously resurrected, although nothing had changed,\u201d Greenberg wrote in the motion. \u201cFifteen years later. This is unheard of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenberg continued, \u201cFrom (evidence) that has been tendered it appears that the only \u2018investigation\u2019 done before these charges were brought (in 3 of the 4 cases) was a State\u2019s Attorney investigator reading old reports, an interview with a Michael Avenatti client, and the prosecutors speaking with Avenatti. The lack of any meaningful investigation of these stale allegations is outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The motion also weaved in the controversial dropping of felony charges<\/a> against Jussie Smollett, with Greenberg questioning whether Foxx was \u201cinfluenced and wowed\u201d by Smollett\u2019s lawyer Mark Geragos; that lawyer is reportedly a co-conspirator in the Nike extortion charges filed against Avenatti.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere there are serious questions whether these attorneys influenced their clients and the narrative. There are serious questions whether Kim Foxx was bullied or just simply manipulated by Avenatti and others,\u201d Greenberg wrote. \u201cThe communications are key to uncovering answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A hearing regarding Greenberg\u2019s motion was set for May 7th. At Monday\u2019s hearing, Greenberg also, for the time being, withdrew Kelly\u2019s travel request to perform Dubai concerts, following reports that the sheikdom did not invite<\/a> the singer to the U.A.E.<\/p>\n

Greenberg, Avenatti and the Cook County State Attorney\u2019s Office did not respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment at press time.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following charges of fraud and extortion against Michael Avenatti, R. Kelly\u2019s legal team filed a motion seeking all communication between the celebrity lawyer \u2013 who represents two of Kelly\u2019s alleged victims \u2013 and the Cook County State Attorney\u2019s Office. In the motion, filed Monday, Kelly\u2019s lawyer Steve Greenberg argued that prosecutors, namely State\u2019s Attorney Kim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:19:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}