Prosecutors in R. Kelly case launch New York law firm

(Reuters) – Two former longtime New York federal prosecutors whose previous instances embrace securing final yr’s sex-trafficking conviction of singer R. Kelly have began a brand new law firm targeted on civil rights and sexual misconduct issues.

Shihata & Geddes was based by Elizabeth Geddes and Nadia Shihata, former assistant U.S. Attorneys in the Eastern District of New York. The firm will characterize legal defendants and deal with inner company investigations, civil rights audits and wrongful conviction instances, in accordance with its web site.

The two attorneys had been lead prosecutors in Kelly’s racketeering and sexual misconduct trial, which led to a 30-year sentence after the singer was convicted in September 2021 on all 9 expenses he confronted. Kelly was individually convicted earlier this yr on little one pornography and different expenses in Chicago.

Shihata was chief of the organized crime and gangs part in New York’s Eastern District, which incorporates Brooklyn, till September. Geddes led the civil rights part of the workplace’s legal division till June.

Shihata stated certainly one of her most notable instances was when she helped convict Eugenio Perez, a Federal Bureau of Prisons lieutenant, for sexual assault in 2019.

Earlier in her profession, Geddes labored on plenty of instances that helped dismantle the Colombo crime household.

“We wanted to continue focusing on the areas that had meant so much to us when we worked as prosecutors,” Shihata stated.

Geddes and Shihata are working remotely for now and utilizing convention house in a constructing in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. The two companions plan to rent extra employees and ultimately transfer into leased places of work.

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