*R. Kelly may be serving time for doing wrong, but it looks like the disgraced entertainer has finally been proven right with claims his personal information was leaked.
Radar Online reports Kelly was “seemingly vindicated” this week when the singer’s 2023 lawsuit against the U.S. government was tossed from court, per demands from the government.
“The United States is not subject to institutional liability stemming from allegedly widespread negligent practices or policies,” a lawyer for the government wrote.
The toss-out comes after Kelly filed his lawsuit against the government last year. YouTube blogger Tasha K, as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, were named in the suit, which centered around claims the “I Believe I Can Fly” crooner made that employees at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center used the facility’s internal prison system to access his emails and phone logs before handing the info over to Tasha K.
“The Defendant United States of America breached its duty of care to Kelly when it allowed countless BOP officers to access his confidential information without any legal basis to do so,” Kelly wrote in his lawsuit.
“The Defendant Unites States of America knew that one of the employees and the other prison workers routinely accessed his private information from its systems and divulged private information to third parties for monetary gain, clout, or simple harassment.
“Because of the United States of America’s breach, at least 60 officers made unauthorized access to his sensitive, confidential, and private information maintained by the BOP on its electronic system known as TruView,” he continued.
Before his legal war with the government, Kelly was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021. The entertainer was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after being found guilty in September 2021 of racketeering, having sex with underage girls, and sexual exploitation of children, Radar mentioned. Metropolitan Correctional Center, the facility named in the former hitmaker’s suit, is noted for being where Kelly was sent following his arrest in July 2019.
Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly) took his grievance a step further with accusing prison officers of selling his personal information to Tasha K after learning she posted some of his private information to her blog.
“Tasha K rallied her massive following to harass Kelly with the use of the stolen information and created chaos in his personal life, even using the information to influence witnesses in his EDNY criminal prosecution,” Jennifer Bonjean, Kelly’s lawyer said.
In addition to the Correctional Center, Kelly’s legal team brought in U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutors into the situation, accusing them of using the music man’s stolen personal information to “influence” witnesses in another criminal sexual assault case he was facing at the time.
“On information and belief, the stolen information was shared with and used by prosecutors from United States Attorney’s Office as a tool to influence witnesses against him.”
Despite denying claims it breached its duty of care to Kelly by allowing prison officers to access and share his emails and phone logs, the government admitted an in-depth investigation into the unauthorized access of his sensitive information. Radar mentioned that the prison officer named in Kelly’s initial complaint retired in 2019 after being cleared of charges related to the situation.
From there, Kelly was moved to his current staying place, Butner Federal Prison. The singer/songwriter has been living at the North Carolina-based facility since April 2023.
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