R. Kelly’s Legal professional Says Singer Sympathizes With Diddy, Feds Goal Black Entertainers

R. Kelly and Diddy have one thing in frequent … each males have been accused of racketeering and intercourse trafficking — and though the 2 aren’t precisely mates, Kelly says he feels for Diddy, who’s presently on trial, and says Black entertainers as an entire are underneath siege by the feds.

TMZ caught up with one in every of Kelly’s legal professionals, Beau Brindley, who spoke to us about his well-known shopper, who was simply positioned in solitary confinement after receiving demise threats from white supremacists in a federal jail in North Carolina.

Brindley factors out Kelly and Diddy aren’t mates — and “far from it” — however Kelly nonetheless has sympathy for Diddy over his present scenario … as everybody is aware of, Diddy is dealing with many years behind bars if convicted on racketeering, intercourse trafficking and different expenses at his federal legal trial in NYC.

As we reported this week, Brindley filed a movement asking for Kelly to be launched from jail after discovering white supremacists have been plotting to allegedly homicide his shopper. Jail officers put Kelly in solitary confinement for his personal security after the extremist group additionally threatened to poison his meals, making Kelly too paranoid to eat. However, Brinley says, he needs Kelly out of isolation and jail altogether, requesting {that a} decide grant Kelly residence confinement. The decide has but to rule on the movement.

In 2021, Kelly was convicted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking at his New York federal trial. A yr later, he was discovered responsible of kid pornography and enticement of minors for intercourse in an Illinois federal courtroom. He is now serving a mixed 31 years in jail.