R. KellyThe alleged manager is facing more legal fallout over what the feds claim are efforts to carry out interference for the disgraced singer.
Donnell Russell has just been accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of an alleged threat to shoot up a NYC theater in December 2018 when the Lifetime documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly,” was screened there.
The feds claim that Russell allowed him to first send a cease-and-desist letter to try to end the screening – but when that failed, prosecutors called that he called in the shooting threat … and successfully staged the event, which was attended by a number of suspected victims of Kelly.
TMZ broke the story … sources for legislation told us that an R. Kelly employee was a important person about an alleged threat that came just 20 minutes before the start of the screening. Russell was charged with 1 count of conspiracy to threaten physical harm and 1 count of threatening physical harm. Each prosecutor carries a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg for Russell.
As we reported … Russell is also 1 in 3 people accused of allegedly harassment and intimidating witnesses in Kelly’s criminal cases.
