Prison Employee Was Under Federal Investigation For Allegedly Leaking R. Kelly Information To Blogger
Sept. 8 2021, Published 4:48 p.m. ET
Federal authorities were reportedly investigating whether a now-retired Bureau of Prisons employee possibly leaked information about disgraced singer R. Kelly to an entertainment blogger, all while he was locked up in Chicago’s federal jail, the Chicago Sun Times reported.
According to the outlet, in February of 2020 prosecutors reportedly asked for a judge’s permission to search the suspected employee’s computer after a report to the Bureau of Prison’s Office of Internal Affairs claimed that a blogger named TashaK allegedly shared information that was only available to BOP employees.
Reports claim that on August 18th the affidavit was unsealed in a Chicago federal court while R. Kelly’s trial for racketeering was officially beginning in Brooklyn, NY. While the affidavit allegedly only identifies R. Kelly as “Inmate A,” it also refers to him as “a nationally recognized celebrity whose criminal case has received media attention.” The suspected BOP employee, on the other hand, is only identified in the legal document as “Officer A.”
According to the affidavit, R. Kelly was arrested in July of 2019 while in Chicago. He was reportedly held in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center until last June. In the meantime, the suspected BOP employee was assigned to the Thomson Correctional Center from May of 2019 through December of 2019, which is when she reportedly retired from the BOP.