This con artist finally gets hit with what he deserves.
The City of Chicago announced on Thursday that it is filing a civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett after the actor refused to reimburse the city for costs associated with the investigation of his alleged hate crime hoax.
Chicago sent Smollett a letter in late March demanding that he pay $130,000 to offset costs of attack investigation, saying: “This is a reasonable and legally justifiable amount to collect to help offset the cost of the investigation.”
Smollett failed to pay the amount at the end of the one-week deadline that Chicago set in place despite being warned that he would face legal action if he refused.
“Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, 2019,” Bill McCaffrey, City of Chicago Department of Law, said in a statement. “The Law Department is now drafting a civil complaint that will be filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Once it is filed, the Law Department will send a courtesy copy of the complaint to Mr. Smollett’s Los Angeles-based legal team.”
“The Law Department will file the suit in the near future. As part of this legal action, the Law Department will pursue the full measure of damages allowed under the ordinance,” the statement continued. “The City of Chicago and Chicago Law Department will not have any further comment at this time.”
On Thursday, The Daily Wire reported that Chicago’s newly elected mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has made it a top priority for her administration to figure out what happened with the Smollett case.
“We cannot create the perception that if you’re rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice and for everybody else, it’s something much harsher. That won’t do, and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity,” Lightfoot said in an interview. “The state’s attorney’s office has to provide more information about the rationale for the decision to drop the charges.”
While the reaction to the charges being dropped against Smollett has been overwhelmingly negative, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) praised the move.
“It’s the correct thing that the charges were dropped,” Waters said this week. “First of all, we probably will never know all of the details. We’ve heard a lot of information. No one was hurt — that is, physically, killed, shot — he never committed a crime before, he forfeited the bail and it’s this kind of situation where they close the case all over the country every day. I have learned this isn’t unusual.”
Waters went on to praise Smollett, saying, “he’s an extremely talented man who people have come to love because he is on TV.”
“I’m hopeful that he will go on with his career and be successful,” Waters added.
After the charges were dropped, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed the decision, calling it “a whitewash of justice.”
“The city saw its reputation dragged through the mud,” Emanuel added. “This is without of doubt a whitewash of justice and sends a clear message that if you’re in a position of influence and power, you’ll get treated one way, other people will be treated another way. There is no accountability in the system. It is wrong, full stop.”
Src: The Daily Wire
typical democrat decision !?? they should have hung him for lieing the way he did. Anyone else would have been sentenced to at least 18 months in jail ! the blakkk population should be outraged but you got mad cow Maxine waters praising the move and just goes to show the double standard the demonrats have !! if they’re not a liberal, hang them ! the blakkks are too stupid to realize how much damage this sme3llit has done !! wrong !!!
Maxine Waters is a grade A idiot. ” it’s O’tay, jussie done forfeited his bail, and ain’t nobody got hurt……..how exactly does she know, nobody got hurt..Chicago is a shooting gallery..people are shot and killed there every day….wasting police resources on Jussie Smolletts Hoax meant Police weren’t able to devote resources to areas that really had ACTUAL REAL LIVE CRIMES…….the city should sue the heck out of him.
I absolutely agree with you.
I hope they get every last dime he has and he can never get another short of picking up dog crap
Jussie Smollett needs to do prison time.
He must be a democrat, sure acts like, lies all the time.
Jussie should have had to go to trial , period. Maxine the Corrupt Waters is a disgrace to our Congress. An old biddy that has not done one good thing while in Congress for our nation or especially the people in her district . In fact she lives outside her district for she doesn’t want to live in the Ghetto. Yep, the Ghetto is still very much where it was years ago when she first was elected to represent the Ghettoese ….I made that word up…LOL. It is really sad that she would defend a person that is a fake and phoney . Jussie needs to pay for his shenanigans. Anyone else would have already been wearing an orange suit. Justice hopefully will prevail….
That DA has to go also, she’s the real problem.
The Obama s and George Soros are calling the shots, in this case.They on the Cook County prosecutors. This is actually a paid off ” Blackwash”, Biased , Racial, Political , Demo Politics! And that is the truth about it.
What a farce! This guy should have never been released. Michaele Obamas staff person contacted the ADA, and BOOM, and out the door. If were you or I, we still would be wearing the orange suit. I’m glad the Law Dept. is now persueing the $130k for the Police Investigation. From what I understand is Chicago is going to sue him in Court. Hooray for them.