Donnell Russell, Stalking, New York 2023

A 47-year-old Chicago man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in a scheme to harass, intimidate, and cause substantial emotional distress to a victim in the R. Kelly racketeering case.

Donnell Russell, also known as 'Don Russell' and 'Colon Dunn,' was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly in federal court in Brooklyn.

For more than a year, Russell engaged in a vicious campaign to harass, humiliate, and threaten the victim in order to force her to dismiss her lawsuit against R. Kelly and stop speaking publicly about him, according to Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Between November 2018 and February 2020, Russell threatened to reveal sexually explicit photographs of the victim and to publicly reveal her sexual history if she did not withdraw her lawsuit against Kelly.

Russell caused a letter, with attachments, purportedly written by Kelly, to be mailed to the victim's lawyer at the time. The attachments included cropped nude photographs of the victim with the following text: 'the next two pictures have been cropped for the sake of not exposing her extremities to the world, yet!!!'

The government's case is being handled by the Office's Civil Rights Section. Assistant United States Attorney Anna Karamigios is in charge of the prosecution.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/defendant-sentenced-20-months-prison-stalking-r-kelly-victim-and-her-mother