A retired U.S. prison officer is on a federal investigation into allegedly leaking a treasure trove of illegal access information about disgraced musician R. Kelly to a popular YouTube gossip vlogger.
The online personality, known as Tasha K, posted a series of videos in which she drinks wine and shares salacious information with her thousands of followers, textually citing phone calls, emails and visitor logs recorded by Kelly, according to a federal search warrant obtained by the Chicago Tribune.
The officer, named in order as Officer A, is accused of illegally accessing Kelly’s private information while he was an inmate at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center and passed it on to 39-year-old Tasha K on whose real name is Latasha Kebe. She has not yet been charged with any crime.
Before delving into juicy details about Kelly’s life in one of her videos, Kebe says, “Now, I told you I have the m *********** g stopper. All of this is a fact, presumably not, at all.
A retired U.S. prison officer allegedly shared information from phone calls, emails, and visitor logs recorded by R. Kelly on YouTuber Tasha K (pictured above)
Tasha also shared more details about what she said was Kelly’s inability to read and write
The agent, who retired in December 2019, allegedly accessed R. Kelly’s records more than 150 times in a six-month period.
In a series of widely shared videos, Tasha K drinks wine and reads the private exchanges Kelly had while in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
The female official, who retired in December 2019, allegedly accessed Kelly’s records more than 150 times in a six-month period prior to her departure and was sent a 12-page scan of her records by email. of prison.
The officer worked as a disciplinary hearing officer in a federal prison in Wisconsin, was not even assigned to the MCC and “had no official reason” to seek Kelly’s information, as stated in the order. 24 pages obtained by Tribune.
Part of the private information includes Kelly’s controversial relationship with two friends, Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary, who were then living upstairs in a Trump Tower residence in Chicago. Tasha K reveals in a video that Kelly allegedly had a friend bring $ 1,500 in cash to the apartment to help pay her friends ’bills.
The vlogger, who is known for having a giant glass of wine while sharing her gossip, says, “Yeah, there’s a phone ring somewhere and I won’t tell you where it is. I have the plug. I won’t tell you where. I got the information, but you only hear the damn information, right?
Part of the private information includes Kelly’s controversial relationship with two girlfriends: Joycelyn Savage (left photo) and Azriel Clary
Tasha K reveals in a video that Kelly allegedly had a friend bring $ 1,500 in cash to the apartment to help pay her friends ’bills.
In another video, posted on December 22, 2019 and titled “A. Emails posted by Kelly show she can’t read or write,” she scrolls through her phone and reads the email exchanges Kelly had with her friends from prison before saying, “… these are real conversations between them, I won’t explain it here because it’s considered private information from someone or anything, but you know my word trusts me.
Tasha said she shared the emails to highlight Kelly’s alleged illiteracy.
The director of the Chicago MCC first reported to BOP’s internal affairs in November 2019 that Tasha K. “had revealed sensitive information from law enforcement” that would only be known to employees of the U.S. Prisons Office. United States who were responsible for regularly monitoring their behavior in the penitentiary. installation, according to the order.
According to the Chicago Tribune, a review of Officer A’s logs in the Office of Prisons’ internal information system revealed that he illegally accessed Kelly’s records 153 times between the first time Kelly arrived. at MCC in July 2019 and before his retirement in December 2019.
The agent also allegedly accessed and printed Kelly’s visitor records and payments made in and out of his commissioner’s account, which showed who was sending money to Kelly while he was in prison.
The 39-year-old Atlanta-based blogger, whose real name is Latasha Kebe, shares her videos as “exclusive” peaks in R. Kelly’s tangles. Some of his videos include interviews with key actors, but others offer information not even shared in the courts.
Tasha K now has 966,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she posts to her Unwinewithtashak account.
In 2019 she was embroiled in a legal battle with Cardi B, whom she sued for more than $ 3 million after the popstar allegedly responded to one of the blogger’s videos telling the band members to “handle” her. as reported by TMZ at the time.
Cardi B came out successfully in his legal battle in July 2021 after a judge could find no evidence to show Cardi B was making threats.
R. Kelly, 54, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has been on trial since August 18 for carrying out an alleged decades-long layout scheme aimed at women and girls by sex, with the help from employees and assistants. Many of the allegations of sex-related misconduct were discussed in the 2019 lifelong documentary “Surviving R. Kelly”.
So far, the trial has had a steady stream of accusers claiming that Kelly began sexually degrading them when they were still teenagers. They said he used his stardom to lure them into an insular world where he watched their every move and handed out perverse punishments, stabbing them and isolating them in hotel rooms if they broke their vow to never speak of ‘he with no one.
Last Monday, Kelly’s first male accuser testified that he offered help in his music career in exchange for sexual favors. The man, who testified under the pseudonym Louis, said he was 17 when Kelly began making sexual advances to him.
Kelly, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to ten years and a lifetime in prison if convicted on all grounds.