In the most serious blow for the onetime superstar, though, Kelly was charged in July in federal courts in Chicago and Brooklyn, New York. The Chicago indictment alleged he conspired with two former associates — Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown — to rig his 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County by paying off witnesses and victims to change their stories. In New York, he was indicted on a charge of racketeering conspiracy alleging he identified underage girls attending his concerts and groomed them for later sexual abuse.