Americans felt betrayed about what he did, now he could finally be facing some justice…
An Illinois judge on Thursday ordered “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s criminal case file unsealed, setting up the release of a wealth of information surrounding the controversial — and often confusing — case.
Cook County judge Steven G. Watkins’ decision came months after a dizzying set of events: First, Smollett alleged he’d been the victim of a hate crime; after an extensive investigation, Chicago cops arrested Smollett and accused him of faking the supposed attack; and then, Cook County prosecutors suddenly dropped the charges against Smollett and his case was sealed.
But not anymore — at least, soon.
When the state attorney asked whether the office could have more time to redact personal information from the files, Watkins advised prosecutors to “act as if the documents were never sealed in the first place.”
In January, Smollett made national headlines when he filed a police report alleging two masked men attacked him, put a rope around his neck and poured bleach on him as he was walking home from a fast food eatery. Smollett, who is black and openly gay, said the masked men beat him, made racist and homophobic comments and yelled, “This is MAGA country” — a reference to President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — before fleeing the scene.
But as cops investigated the case further, they began taking a closer look at Smollett.
Surveillance video reportedly revealed brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo, who lived in Smollett’s apartment building, purchasing rope similar to the kind used during the alleged attack. Eventually, the brothers reportedly told cops Smollett paid them to help him fake the attack.
Smollett was arrested for allegedly filing a false police report and faced 16 counts of disorderly conduct stemming from the incident. But during a short and stunning hearing, the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped the charges against Smollett, though his bail was forfeited.
Smollett has maintained his innocence and insisted the hate attack was real. But the city of Chicago is suing the actor in an effort to recoup resources spent investigating the alleged hoax.
Meanwhile, the brothers implicated in the incident are suing Smollett’s attorneys for defamation of character.
Src: Fox News
Don’t know where this may go. But at least the police officers who put so much honest effort into the case will be justified in their actions and maybe, just maybe Foxx will be brought to task for her part in the coverup.
Well said, I was beginning to wonder if this country is truly ruled by the rule of law, or Yale Graduates?
Whatever goes around, comes around! EVERYTHING the demonCRAPers throw at Trump, is CONSTANTLY back firing, and the boomerang swings around back to their evil faces. They haven’t learned yet, and I love it! Keep dishing it out, morons, and reap the fruit of your doings! PAYBACK time is coming up!
just want the truth, we know he is not telling it, and Fox is covering up for him.just be fare.he went after Trump because he hates him,and and he thought he could get more money at the same time from the show he was on.He made the Chicago police spend a lot of money waste a lot of time for nothing,very bad person.
This little media attention jerk was trying to use racism to help his career and suck up to liberal politicians and Hollywood for his own enrichment. He broke the law in many ways and hurt Chicago. The fool prosecutor bailed him out and is now in deep water for subverting justice! They should all pay for their crimes!
This idiot smaller did hurt chicago. But the idiots that really hurt shitcago are the idiots that keep on reelecting these sorry ass democrats in shitcago and crook county that are going to totally ruin shitcago! Can’t wait until we see what changes this new shitcago mayor is going to do! It was between her and prickwrinkle. Prickwrinkle was successful in passing that .01 per ounce soda tax on any soda, juice, or liquid that contained sugar. She stated her reason for the tax was to help prevent obesity and diabetes. But those on food stamps who you often see with a large number of 2 liter bottles of soda pop in their shopping carts are exempt from paying ththe sugar tax, or any other tax. And their on a federal program where your tax dollars are spent to improve their health! And still, the idiots in shitcago almost elected her their mayor. What a bunch of asswipe idiots.
Well at least the .07 cent bag tax is working, you don’t see that many people walking around with bags under their eyes.
SOME People are really amazing. It’s ok for Trump to lie a million times and he remains in the office of the president of the US. You want Smullet to pay and be jailed for what you THINK he lied about. Double standards in this country.
So tired of all these liberals getting away with everything but when Fox dropped charges and sealed his records that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Glad to see we are getting back to law and order.
I still want to know why the records were sealed in the first place and who is responsible for doing it besides Kim Fox – an aide to Miichelle Obama was mentioned at one time in TV news I watched way back in the beginning of this mess – is there any truth to this?
If you want to know what the democrats are up to, just listen to what they are accusing Trump and Conservatives of doing! it’s called projection.
I was a democrat for many years until my party started acting like dictators abusing and bullying every one who didn’t agree with their agenda. I can’t figure out whether they are Communists or Nazis. Perhaps they are a combination of both.
More and more people need to come to their senses and realize the Democrat party is no longer the Democrat party of the Kennedy years. They have become totally consumed with themselves and how much they can take from people. Corruption, lies and dictatorship is only a small part of what they believe in. Soon it will be socialism and that everything should be for free and be totally controlled by the government. Failure! Switch parties! Republicans, at least, still believe in family, education and hard work…