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Kay Flock indicted on murder and racketeering charges

Kevin Perez (Kay Flock) has been charged with racketeering conspiracy and more in a federal indictment, along with seven other alleged members of the Bronx gangs Sev Side and Third Side. The indictment was unsealed today (February 23) by Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant L.
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Kim Kardashian tweets in support to free rapper Gunna after he is denied bond in racketeering case
Kim Kardashian has tweeted in support of freeing rapper Gunna from jail days after he was once again denied bond who is charged in a gang-related racketeering case.The 41-year-old criminal justice reform advocate - who has helped free multiple people in prison including Alice Marie Johnson - took to her Twitter on Wednesday to post a simple hashtag: '#FreeGunna.'Back on July 7, ajudge in Atlanta denied bond for the 29-year-old rapper (born Sergio Giavanni Kitchens) who's charged with racketeering along with fellow rapper Young Thug and more than two dozen other people.Scroll down for video Helping hand: Kim Kardashian (left) has tweeted in support of freeing rapper Gunna from jail days after he was once again denied bond who is charged in a gang-related racketeering case, they are both pictured at the Met Gala in New York back in May The 41-year-old criminal justice reform advocate - who has helped free multiple people in prison including Alice Marie Johnson - took to her Twitter on Wednesday to post a simple hashtag: '#FreeGunna.'Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville had previously denied bond for Gunna and held a hearing on the rapper's request to reconsider that decision earlier this month. Glanville said he worried Kitchens might threaten or intimidate witnesses if he were released ahead of trial.Prosecutors have said that Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, is a founder of a violent street gang in Atlanta called Young Slime Life and that Kitchens has a management role within the gang.
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R Kelly faces years in jail as he’s sentenced for racketeering and sex trafficking
multiple counts of racketeering, with the charges relating to bribery and forced labour, by a jury in September last year.Kelly, 55, was also found in violation of an anti-sex trafficking law known as the Mann Act.The singer, who denied all charges, was found guilty on all nine counts against him following a six-week trial in Brooklyn, New York.His conviction carries a minimum sentence of 10 years, but he may receive a sentence of up to life imprisonment for his crimes.Federal prosecutors have asked for a sentence ‘in excess of 25 years’ though the singer’s own lawyers have asked he receive under 10.Several victims of his abuses are expected to give victim impact statements to the court, and Kelly himself may even make statements, having declined to take the stand during the trial.The singer – real name Robert Sylvester Kelly – has been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn since the verdict.As the US singer found fame after he performed on the talent TV show Big Break as part of the group MGM in 1989, but he left the group in 1993 to launch his solo career.Kelly’s debut solo album 12 Play was released in November of that year, which featured his first number one hit Bump N’ Grind.In 1998, he was nominated for several Grammy awards for his song I Believe I Can Fly, which won him best male R&B vocal performance, best R&B song and best song written for a motion picture, television or other visual media.The song became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings, advertisements and elsewhere, including the inauguration of former US president Barack Obama in 2008.Kelly went on to release a total of six studio albums and worked with famous faces in the music industry including Jay-Z,
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