The punishment won't add to the time ex-manager Donnell Russell is already set to serve for a different effort to squelch sexual abuse claims against Kelly.
Russell told a Manhattan federal judge Monday that he had"made bad judgments" while briefly working with the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer.Russell said he reconnected with Kelly, a fellow Chicagoan he'd met decades earlier, as Kelly facing a growing series of accusations that eventually fueled the singer's sex trafficking and racketeering conviction last year.
The phone call claimed that someone at the event had a gun and intended to fire. The screening was canceled and the theater evacuated. A jury convicted Russell in July of threatening physical harm through interstate communication, while acquitting him of conspiracy.
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