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        <title><![CDATA[Three R. Kelly associates busted trying to bribe, threaten his victims: feds]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three men were busted for allegedly trying to intimidate and bribe victims in <strong>R. Kelly&#8217;s sex-trafficking case</strong> &#8212; including setting a car on fire outside one accuser’s home and offering another half a million dollars for her silence, prosecutors announced Wednesday.</p><p>Richard Arline Jr., Donnell Russell and Michael Williams were charged with trying to harass, intimidate, threaten or corruptly influence victims in Robert Sylvester Kelly&#8217;s racketeering case pending in Brooklyn federal court, officials said.</p><p>Williams, a longtime friend of Kelly&#8217;s allegedly set alight a black SUV that had been rented by one victim’s father, in Florida on June 11, 2020, at about 2:50 a.m., court documents say.</p><p>The car was parked in front of a home in Kissimmee, where the woman, her father and several others. After hearing an explosion, a witness went outside and observed “an individual fleeing from the scene whose arm appeared to be lit on fire,” according to the complaint.</p><p>Fire investigators found an accelerant on the perimeter of the property, and just two hours before the blaze, Williams allegedly used his cellphone to search the Florida address, prosecutors said.</p><p>Ten days after the fire, he allegedly Googled “How do fertilizer bombs work?”</p><p>He was arrested in Pompano, Beach, Florida on Tuesday.</p><p>Arline, meanwhile, allegedly offered another accuser in the case $500,000 to influence her trial testimony, according to prosecutors.</p><p>An unnamed associate texted the woman, “Rob is trying to get his cousin rich in contact with you because he wants to pay you for silence,&#8221; then during a May 26, 2020 phone call, Arline allegedly offered her $500,000 and said that R. Kelly, 53, had authorized the sum.</p><p>Unbeknownst to Arline, she had already notified the feds, and agents were listening in on the call. He was arrested Wednesday in Dolton, Illinois.</p><p>And Russell allegedly harassed another victim and her mother online and by telephone on behalf of the<strong> jailed R&amp;B crooner</strong>.</p><p>The victim was 19 when she met Kelly at a Texas concert, and during their brief fling, flew all over the country meeting the singer in studios and hotel rooms for trysts. She later filed a lawsuit alleging he’d given her herpes.</p><p>Russell, in an attempt to get her to withdraw the suit, allegedly helped draft a menacing letter signed by Kelly, to her civil lawyer threatening to release partially nude photos of her.</p><p>On Dec. 4, 2018, Russell emailed the compromising images to employees of A&amp;E with the subject line “Survivors Exposed.” The network owns Lifetime, which produced the documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly” which aired a few months later.</p><p>Russell is expected to appear on the charges at a later date in Brooklyn federal court.</p><p>The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer, 53, is charged with <strong>more than a dozen criminal counts</strong> of sex-trafficking, racketeering, coercion and other raps related to the abuse of six women and girls.</p><p>He faces a separate indictment in Chicago, where he is charged with producing child pornography and destroying evidence.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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