R. Kelly has formally notified a federal court of his intention to appeal his conviction on accusations of racketeering.

Monday, Jennifer Bonjean, Kelly's defense attorney, filed a notice of appeal, which did not specify the grounds on which Kelly sought to dispute the verdict and the 30-year jail sentence he was handed for managing a criminal business that recruited women and girls for sex.

In September, Kelly was convicted of racketeering and violating the Mann Act, a law against sex trafficking, including having sex with underage girls. The accusations reportedly included a bribery plot using a public official to obtain a phony ID for the late pop diva Aaliyah so that she and her husband, who was 27 then, could marry when she was 15 and he was 27.

Prosecutors claimed in a sentencing letter that Kelly believed Aaliyah was pregnant at the time.

After Kelly was convicted last month, Bonjean said she would file an appeal, arguing that he is not an abuser. Following her sentencing, Kelly was placed under temporary suicide watch.

A lawyer for Kelly informed reporters outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse after the sentencing, "Mr. Kelly is fine," We feel this business was overcharged.

The defense portrayed many of R. Kelly's victims as groupies who voluntarily complied with Kelly's sexual demands and claimed that prosecutors improperly applied racketeering laws to Kelly's case.

An earlier defense filing stated, "Invigorated by an influential social movement determined to punish centuries of male misbehavior through symbolic prosecutions of high-profile men, the government brought a RICO prosecution against the Defendant that was 'absurdly remote' from the drafters' intent,"

U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, the prosecutor in the case, and Steve Francis, the acting executive associate director of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, attributed the outcome of the case to the courage of the victims who came forward, describing Kelly as a predator who was able to continue his crimes for more than three decades.