R. Kelly manager gets a year in prison for theater threat

By Jennifer Peltz Associated Press

Posted December 20, 2022 11:52 AM

Updated December 20, 2022 3:14 PM

R. Kelly’s onetime manager was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star.The punishment won’t add to the time ex-manager Donnell Russell is already set to serve for a different effort to squelch sexual abuse claims against Kelly.Russell told a Manhattan federal judge Monday that he had “made bad judgments” while briefly working with the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer.&ldquo …

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