Former Empire star Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to five months in jail after he was previously found guilty on five of six felony charges stemming from a false police report he filed in 2019.
Smollett was also sentenced to 30 months of felony probation and was fined $25,000. He’ll have to pay more than $120,000 in restitution as well.
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Smollett was also sentenced to 30 months of felony probation and was fined $25,000. He’ll have to pay more than $120,000 in restitution as well.
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- 3/11/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett was indicted by a special prosecutor in Chicago on Tuesday over a January 2019 attack against the actor, for which he was later of accused of filing a false report.
Tuesday’s indictment, handed out by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, charged Smollett with six counts of disorderly conduct. Smollett is specifically charged with making “four separate false reports” to the Chicago Police, regarding a Jan. 29, 2019 incident where he claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime.
“Based on the recommendation of the [Office of the Special Prosecutor], a Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” the special prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The Osp later added that it...
Tuesday’s indictment, handed out by Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, charged Smollett with six counts of disorderly conduct. Smollett is specifically charged with making “four separate false reports” to the Chicago Police, regarding a Jan. 29, 2019 incident where he claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime.
“Based on the recommendation of the [Office of the Special Prosecutor], a Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” the special prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The Osp later added that it...
- 2/11/2020
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Update, 1:23 Pm: There’s the Chicago way and there’s the Chicago way and the Windy City isn’t the least blown over by the newly offense legal strategy by Jussie Smollett.
“The City stands by its original complaint and will continue to pursue this litigation,” Chicago Department of Law spokesperson Bill McCaffrey told Deadline of the countersuit filed by the now fired Empire star over the city’s lawsuit looking for compensation for the costs into investigation Smollett’s now seemingly phony assault claims of earlier this year. “The judge in this case has already ruled in our favor once and we fully expect to be successful in defeating these counterclaims,” the Chicago official added of the wide spread damages and jury trial paperwork that attorneys for Smollett put in the federal docket last night
The city of Chicago, the top cop at the Chicago Police Department, some...
“The City stands by its original complaint and will continue to pursue this litigation,” Chicago Department of Law spokesperson Bill McCaffrey told Deadline of the countersuit filed by the now fired Empire star over the city’s lawsuit looking for compensation for the costs into investigation Smollett’s now seemingly phony assault claims of earlier this year. “The judge in this case has already ruled in our favor once and we fully expect to be successful in defeating these counterclaims,” the Chicago official added of the wide spread damages and jury trial paperwork that attorneys for Smollett put in the federal docket last night
The city of Chicago, the top cop at the Chicago Police Department, some...
- 11/20/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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