Jussie Smollett faces 6 new felony charges for allegedly making false hate crime reports

 

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This week, a grand jury in Cook County, Illinois indicted actor Jussie Smollett on six felony charges of disorderly conduct related to his allegedly making four false reports to Chicago Police regarding a January 29, 2019 hate crime that prosecutors believe he carried out against himself.

Dan K. Webb, the special prosecutor appointed to the case in August 2019, announced that the Office of the Special Prosecutor decided to pursue charges against Smollett “in the interest of justice” due to “the extensive nature of Mr. Smollett’s false police reports, and the [$130,000 in] resources expended” by Chicago Police to investigate them.

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The out gay actor alleged that two men attacked him on January 29, 2019, pouring bleach on him and putting a noose around his neck while shouting, “This is MAGA country.” Two friends and gym buddies of Smollett – Ola and Abel Osundario – were caught carrying the rope and bleach on a security camera the night of the attack.

The Osundario brothers claimed that Smollett paid them $3500 to help stage the attack because he allegedly wanted a pay raise for his role in the Fox musical drama Empire.

Police arrested Smollett on February 21, 2019 on 16 counts of filing a false police report, but he pled “not guilty” and the charges were dismissed on March 28 with no explanation why since the court records explaining the decision were sealed.

Afterward, Smollett was….

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