episode, trafficking these women. i m sorry to interrupt you, kristen, but kristen, cynthia, and i think ron allen is with us as well, although i think he s talking to his producer, we want to share this with you breaking news from a couple minutes ago. based on the reuters report, we understand the jury of r. kelly has found him guilty of racketeering and the sexual assault case that s been going on since august. our team is in the courtroom it s not easily accessible, you can t have your cell phone in there. but like kristen and cynthia have suggested, it was a relatively short situation with the jury, it appears that r. kelly has been found guilty of this racketeering charge
after him again. they have compiled a mountain of evidence, and they are they have spread this it s almost like a trap that they have spread out there to try and convict him of something under this big racketeering charge and again, the prosecutors have been meticulous in trying to go through the evidence to essentially give the jury a map, a blueprint of details how they can convict him and send him to prison for a very long time. kristen, let me ask you, he faces charges at least in two states, illinois and minnesota the trials for those have not been set regardless of what we find out today, which ron has laid out these federal racketeering charges. what happens to the charges in these states against r. kelly? they re going to be active. it s my understanding that based on reports, at least the one in illinois is actually on hold to
you. i m sorry to interrupt you, but i have to share this with you, with kristen and ron we have now learned that r. kelly has been found guilty on all nine counts that he faced. so r. kelly guilty on nine counts, including that racketeering charge. sentencing will be on may 4th. that is the latest from the courthouse that you re looking at in brooklyn we know that the next phase of this sentencing will happen now, months from now. as suspected, guilty on all those counts let s see if anybody stops to take any questions here. can we dip in and listen just in case we are going to stick around and see if we end up hearing anything from some of the representatives who just walked out of the courtroom there as we believe the proceedings are
see that this, in fact, did happen where they said it did in chicago or los angeles, whatever the case may be. there were mountains and mountains of evidence r, some o it basic testimony from these women, like call logs and so on. some of it was evidence r. kelly had in his own possession like these sex tapes that showed in real graphic detail what was going on we are getting word now by the way, we should note that s gloria allred at the microphones getting ready to speak to the media. we should note that the defense attorneys for r. kelly are telling roeporters that r. kelly himself didn t have much to say about the verdict because he was, quote, shocked. kristen, if he had been paying attention, should he have been so shocked absolutely not. keep in mind, i think one of the things to remember is going back even to that interview with r.
point, kristen, and it says a lot about where we are now even culturally as a society where we would have been 10 or 15 years ago. cynthia, i wonder if you want to jump in on that. i see where cases are evolving these rape cases need to go to the enablers he was not able to do this unless people were handing out phone numbers, unless somebody was locking the door to that room to that radio announcer someone was getting the fake papers that said aleah was 18 and they ended up getting married. he didn t do it all by myself. we need to move these cases, i feel, to enablers. i believe that s the next area we need to push that involve, and this case looks like it s ripe for that kind of evaluation the only other thing i would say should happen next cynthia, i have to interrupt