R. Kelly is fighting to get out of federal prison after his attorneys say members of the Aryan Brotherhood were recruited by prison staff to murder him in custody.
In an emergency motion obtained by AllHipHop, R. Kelly’s legal team alleges that Bureau of Prisons officials tried to orchestrate his death by enlisting white supremacist gang members inside FCI Butner in North Carolina, where the singer is serving a 30-year sentence.
Attorney Beau B. Brindley says one of the men, Mikeal Glenn Stine, was transferred to Butner with a clear mission: kill Kelly.
Stine, who has terminal cancer, allegedly backed out at the last moment and confessed the plot directly to R. Kelly.
“He was prepared to carry out the execution. But, in the moment when Stine got near Mr. Kelly, he made a different choice. He told him the truth. Stine told Kelly that he was sent to kill him. He told him how and by who. He told Mr. Kelly that his life was absolutely in danger. As a dying man with a long history of murder and violence in his past, Stine decided not to carry out his order,” Brindley said. “Instead, he decided to take this opportunity to expose Childress and the BOP for the decades of murder and violence that they have foisted upon the inmate populace while facing no consequences whatsoever.”
Another Aryan Brotherhood member, David Keith Harris, was also allegedly approached by prison staff and instructed to poison Kelly. Both men say they are willing to testify and submit to polygraph tests.
“This means that at least two avowed white supremacists and members of the Aryan Brotherhood have been approached by BOP officers and directed to take Mr. Kelly’s life. The one who failed to do so has now had his own life threatened. All of this is being done at the direction of Bureau of Prisons officers whose duty is to keep safe the inmates under their supervision,” Brindley said.
The motion also accuses federal prosecutors and prison staff of violating R. Kelly’s constitutional rights by stealing his private legal communications and using them to manipulate witnesses.
According to the filing, a Bureau of Prisons officer named Tawana Ingraham illegally accessed Kelly’s emails and phone calls, which were then passed to government informant Larry McGee.
McGee later admitted in online videos that he used the stolen materials to influence key witnesses to testify against Kelly.
Another inmate, Kishan Modugumudi, who once shared a cell with Kelly, confessed in a signed statement that he stole Kelly’s legal mail at the request of a federal prosecutor.
After Kelly’s attorneys obtained that statement, a prison official allegedly warned the singer that his life was in immediate danger.
Kelly’s legal team argues that the combination of government misconduct and credible threats to his life justifies his release to home confinement while he challenges his convictions.
R. Kelly is currently serving his sentence at FCI Butner, where he was transferred following his 2022 conviction on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
The court has not yet ruled on the emergency motion.
