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R. Kelly associate pleads guilty to trying to bribe witness not to testify against the singer

An associate of R. Kelly’s pleaded guilty to charges of bribery in a virtual hearing on Tuesday, Courthouse New Service reports.
Richard Arline Jr. admitted that he offered an unnamed woman – who prosecutors believe was in a relationship with Kelly while she was underage – hundreds of thousands of dollars not to testify.
Arline was caught offering the bribe on recordings the woman made on the advice of law enforcement. In the clips, Arline offers her $500,000 if she refuses to testify. The unnamed woman refuses and counters with $1 million. Other recordings used by law enforcement include a conversation with another man in which Arline seems to admit the woman has a substantial amount of evidence against Kelly.
“Rob, if I had talked to Rob on the phone and Rob got the money, he gonna pay [first name of Jane Doe] to be quiet,” Arline said according to documents. “Like if I had a way to talk to Rob, being next to him, and telling him what’s going on, without nobody listening to, no feds, nobody, he gonna pay her ass off to be quiet. She got too much. She got too much.”
During the hearing, Arline apologized for what he had done in a short statement to the court.
Arline is one of three men charged with bribing or otherwise intimidating witnesses around the R. Kelly trial. Kelly’s manager, Donnell Russell, allegedly threatened to spread nude photographs of another woman if she refused to back out of the trial against Kelly.
“Pull the plug or you will be exposed,” Russell wrote in the message, sending along cropped nude photos of the woman to her lawyer.
Another associate named Michael Williams is believed to have set an SUV on fire in front of the home of one of the accusers.
“It might be wise for you to protect your daughter from heartache she’s gonna endure through this and after,” Williams wrote to the woman’s father, according to evidence in his indictment. “She had to live with every stain you guys create publicly.”
Arline is scheduled to be sentenced in June. Federal bribery charges carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
SOURCE: Complex
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