Ann M. Donnelly, a federal district judge for the Eastern District of New York, ruled Friday that the seizure of $27,828 from R.
Kelly’s prison account will move forward, Rolling Stone and Billboard report. $900 of the funds will go to pay a court fine, and the rest of the money will be transferred to an interest-bearing account, where it will stay until the court determines how much restitution each of Kelly’s victims is owed.
Once the money is moved, Kelly’s commissary account at Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago — where the 55-year-old ex-R&B star is currently incarcerated — will contain only $500.
The decision comes after a brief battle with Kelly’s lawyers, who fought the move, arguing that the money was incorrectly confiscated, as the government’s notice of default and restitution was not yet finalized when the funds were initially taken.
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