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    Withering cross-examination begins for alleged R. Kelly fixer paid to recover sex tapes

    by Jason Meisner and Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune Aug 24, 2022 3 minutes
    R. Kelly appears during a 2019 hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — On Tuesday, Charles Freeman told a wild tale to jurors about how R. Kelly and his associates allegedly agreed to pay him up to a million dollars in the early 2000s to hunt down videotapes of the R&B singer sexually assaulting a young teen girl.

    But that account came under withering scrutiny within minutes of cross-examination beginning Wednesday, with an attorney for Kelly’s co-defendant, Derrel McDavid, painting Freeman as a liar and opportunist who has given varying contradicting accounts about the conspiracy

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