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Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax

2019 faked hate crime


On January 29, 2019, American actor Jussie Smollett talked to the Chicago Police Department and talked about a hate crime that he had faked earlier that morning.[1][2] He planned the fake hate crime with two Nigerian-American brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who had worked as less important actors on the set of television show Empire, in which Smollett was an actor. During the faked attack, which took place on East Lower North Water Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, the brothers wore made themselves look different and shouted racial and anti-homosexual insults while one poured bleach on Smollett and the other placed a noose around his neck. Besides lying that he had been attacked by two unknown people, Smollett said one of them was a white male.[3][2] He also told police the men shouted "This is MAGA country"[4] during the attack, which is from the Trumpist political slogan "Make America Great Again".[5] The brothers later said in court that Smollett faked the attack near a security camera so that video of it could be shown to the world.[6]

Jussie Smollett in 2016

On February 13, 2019, Chicago police went into the home of the Osundairo brothers without telling them before and found papers showing they had been paid $3,500 by Smollett. They had bought the rope found around Smollett's neck at a hardware store in Ravenswood over the weekend of January 25, and were also seen by a security camera in the clothing store where they bought gloves, ski masks, and a red hat that police said was used in the attack.[7][8] On February 20, things were begun in court against Smollett for disorderly conduct for paying the brothers to fake a hate crime and saying fake things to the police.[9] His lawyers made a deal with prosecutors on March 26, 2019, in which he is not in trouble anymore and Smollett has to do things for other people and he doesn't get his $10,000 bond back.[10]

On April 12, 2019, the city of Chicago took Smollett court for the $130,000 they paid to find out this was fake. In November, he took them to court, alleging he was the victim of "mass public ridicule and harm".

On February 11, 2020, after a special prosecutor also looked at this, Smollett had six more things done to him in court by a Cook County grand jury about the fake things he said to the police.[11][12] In December 2021, Smollett was found guilty of five felonies.[13] On March 10, 2022, the court said Smollett had to be in county jail for 150 days[14] and he has to pay $120,106 for the overtime done by Chicago police finding out that he lied.[15] Smollett's right away asked an other court to look at this and he was let go until they are done doing that but he had to give them money for a bond.

Faked hate crime

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On January 22, 2019, a letter acame to the place in Chicago where Smollett worked. The letter was to Smollett and had a drawing of a stick figure hanging from a tree with a gun pointing towards it, as well as letters clipped from magazines reading "Smollett, Jussie you will die" and "MAGA". The letter also had a white powder tested to be Tylenol.[16]

 
The 300 block of East Lower North Water Street, where Smollett said the attack happened.

On January 29, Smollett told the world that he had been attacked early that morning on the 300 block of East Lower North Water Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood,[17] in what was at first looked at by the police as a hate crime.[3][18] Chicago police later dsid that Smollett himself had faked the attack.[19]

 
The Subway restaurant that Smollett said he had gotten food at 2:00 am before the attack happened.

Smollett told police that, after getting food from a Subway restaurant around 2:00 a.m.,[20] he was attacked by two men, who were "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs" and who "poured an unknown chemical substance on [him]".[3][21] Smollett said that he was on the phone with the person who helps him decide about his job, Frank Gatson, at the time.[20]

He said one of the attackers was white, but really, both are black.[22][2] He said they began to beat Smollett about the face, using their hands, feet, and teeth as weapons.[23] The Chicago police said the two attackers then "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim" and at some time while this was happening "wrapped a rope around the victim's neck".[24] Smollett said that he fought them off. There were security cameras there that Smollett thought had seen this happen, but, as it turned out, they were facing the wrong way.[25] Someone who saw this, a person who worked at NBC News Chicago, who was near the place where Smollett said this happened and was getting out of her car around the "corner from the location,"[26] said that she heard nothing.[20]

Gloria Rodriguez, the lawyer for the attackers, said Smollett first drove them to the spot where the attack was going to happen for a "dress rehearsal" and told them, "Here's a camera, there's a camera and here's where you are going to run away".[27] The attackers said that Smollett's plan was to post what the cameras saw on social media,[6] and that he became very upset when police told him that no cameras had seen the attack.[28] Smollett was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Not really hurt, he left the hospital "in good condition" later that morning.[3][29][30]

The police had been called after 2:30 a.m. by Gatson,[31][32] which made Smollett angry because he did not want the police to help.[33] When they got there around 2:40 a.m., Smollett had a white rope around his neck.[34] He later said he took off the rope and then put it back on before the police got there after Gatson told him to do so.[35] Smollett said that the attack may have been because he had said bad things about the Trump administration[36] and that he believed that the attack had to do with the dangerous letter that had been sent to him earlier that month.[16] The FBI would later look into whether Smollett helped make the letter.[16]

What the public thought at first

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On January 30, 2019, people who are well known said good things about Smollett on social media.[18][37] People who are well known, like Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis, tweeted their outrage over the attack and said that they like Smollett.[37] Democratic senators who were running to be president Kamala Harris and Cory Booker both said the attack was somebody trying to do a modern-day lynching.[38] Booker urged Congress to pass a federal anti-lynching bill co-sponsored by him and Harris.[37][39] Talking with April Ryan of AURN, President Donald Trump was asked about Smollett being attacked and said, "I think that's horrible. It doesn't get worse."[40] Some people were not sure Smollett had really been attacked;[41] he said back that he believed that, if he had said his attackers were Mexicans, Muslims, or black people, "the doubters would have supported me much more ... And that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now."[41]

Looking at what happened

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On February 13, 2019, Chicago police raided the home of two people they thought knew something important about the attack. The men, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, were brothers whose family comes from Nigeria[42] who'd been less important actors on Empire, the television show in which Smollett was an important actor.[43] Police found and took with them bleach and other things in the home.[44] The brothers were police held by because police thought they did battery but police did not say that in court.[45] Their lawyer said that they knew Smollett from working on the show and had also spent time with him at a gym.[45] The two men were let go February 15 without police saying they had done a crime,[46][47] with Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi saying this was because police had learned new things from talking to them.[46]

Chicago police later told ABC News: "Police are investigating whether the two individuals committed the attack—or whether the attack happened at all."[48] On February 16, two police whose names we don't know told CNN that they had found things showing that Smollett had paid the two brothers $3,500 to fake the attack.[49][50] Papers listing the history of money show that the brothers bought the rope found around Smollett's neck at a hardware store in Ravenswood over the weekend of January 25.[51][52] They were seen by a security camera in a clothing store where they bought the gloves, ski masks and a red hat that police said was used in the attack. The brothers asked specifically for a MAGA hat, which the store did not sell.[53] Chicago Police contacted Smollett's attorney for additional questioning.[45]

On February 19, 2019, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said that she was not going to look into the attack because she knows people who know things about the attack, which made the last person who had the same job, Anita Alvarez, say bad things about her. Foxx told someone who works for her to do the case in stead.[54][55] Foxx later said that she had talked to someone in Smollett's family about the case at an early stage when they thought the attack was real. Foxx also said that Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson had talked to the FBI about handing the Smollett case off to them, but then told her that the FBI did not want to. Foxx's office later said she had not really stepped away from the case; doing that would mean she had to ask the court to hire a special lawyer for that.[56][57]

Smollett hired a person who handles large bad surprises, Chris Bastardi, to do this for him.[58]

Taken to court, being in handcuffs, what happened in court and being found guilty

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Template:Infobox court case On February 20, 2019, a grand jury said Smollett had done aclass 4 felony for lying to the police.[59][60][61] If Smollett was found guilty of the felony in Illinois he could be in prison for three years at most.[59] Smollett hired lawyer Mark Geragos and Chicago-based lawyers Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson to defend him.[62]

The next day, Smollett went to the Chicago Police Department's Central Booking station to let them arrest him; soon after, CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that Smollett had been arrested by police.[63][64] Guglielmi also said that police said that they think Smollett lied to them, a class 4 felony.[65]

Later that day, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson talked to the press, talked about looking into this, and said how the department became sure that the attack Smollett said had happened was fake.[66][67] The brothers, Abimbola "Bola" (also known as Abel) and Olabinjo "Ola" Osundairo, who say that they helped fake the attack, also said that Smollett came up with the idea for the attack after the dangerous letter that he got did not make people talk about him as much he had hoped that it would.[68] Besides the rope around his neck, the original plan was to pour gasoline over him, but they decided to use bleach instead.[69] Police said that the actor planned to further his career by tying the attack to racism in the United States and President Trump, and that Smollett sent himself the dangerous letter.[66]

Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. set Smollett's bail at $100,000; a friend of Smollett's paid a $10,000 bond, and Smollett was let go from being held by police on February 21.[70][71][72] To be let go, Smollett had to give them his his thing he would use to leave the USA.[73]

 
What the grand jury said about him

On March 8, a lawyer for the government told a court that Smollett was guilty of 16 felonies lying about the attack.[74][75][76][77]

In March 2019, the New York Post said that Tina Tchen, a Chicago lawyer who had been former First Lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff, had talked to Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx about the Smollett case on February 1. Emails and texts showed that, on February 1, Foxx told both Tchen and someone in Smollett's family that she had asked Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to ask that the FBI take over looking into this attack. Foxx also said that Johnson had said he would do that.[78][79]

On March 14, 2019, Smollett told the court he was not guilty.[80][81][82]

First things in court ended

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On March 26, 2019, all things that the government's lawyers said against Smollett were dropped, with Judge Steven Watkins saying that the papers about it had to be sealed.[10][83] First Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Magats said the people who work for him talked with Smollett's lawyers and the government's lawyers would drop the things they did against him in court and Smollett had to do 16 hours of helping other people[84][85][86] and would not get his $10,000 bond back.[87][88][89]

 
Police papers on Smollett's case

The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association (IPBA) said that dropping these things was something that almost never happens, and that the way they were dropped was not normal and not something seen before by lawyers who work in courthouses dealing with crimes across the state. Lawyers who work for and against the government and judges have not seen this kind of thing before. Even worse, the government's main lawyer and those working for her have badly lied to the world about the law and how these things were dropped.[90] It said some of the things the government's main lawyer and those working for her said were lies or not all true.[91] The National District Attorneys Association said that a lawyer working for the government should not be told what to do by important friends of the person the government says is guilty and should not take herself off the case without doing the same for those who work for her, and said that a case as important as Mr. Smollett's should not end without finding him guilty or not guilty.[92]

Magats told the world that this does not mean Smollett is not guilty: That they stand behind the way they looked into the attack, they stand behind saying things against him in court. That Smollett thinking that they said he was not guilty is not correct. Magats said he thinks that is very clear. Then-Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel said very bad things about letting Smollett go, saying it was not right and was made to look right and that "From top to bottom, this is not on the level." Police superintendent Johnson said that this was not right.[10][93]

On March 27, 2019, the Chicago Police Department showed the world the police papers about the police looking into this but some parts are hidden.[94] The FBI is looking into why everything was dropped.[95] On March 27 the court talked about taking this off of Smollett's court papers but they said they would have to do it later.[96] In April 2019, the person who was going to be mayor soon Lori Lightfoot said that there were a lot of important things to deal with and this was snot one of them.[97]

Special lawyer for the government

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On August 23, 2019, someone who used to be United States Attorney Dan K. Webb was hired as a special special lawyer for the government to look at Jussie Smollett's case and what led to the whole thing being dropped.[98] Webb was hired to look at the case and what people said about Smollett's saying he had been attacked. He was also hired to look into why Foxx had stopped all of the things they were doing against Smollett in court. Shortly after being hired, something that might be a problem was found: he gave $1,000 to Kim Foxx to help her win an election. His work was stopped so they could talk in court about whether Webb should keep going.[99] In court, Judge Michael Toomin said his hiring of Webb was right. The judge said Webb could keep looking into this as the government's special lawyer because giving money like this is something lawyers always do and it should not make him unfair.[100]

On December 6, 2019, a Cook County Circuit Court judge wrote a paper saying that somebody has to give things needed to look into the cases saying Google has to turn over Jussie Smollett's emails, pictures, where he was and texts sent only for other people from November 2018 to November 2019, as part of the special lawyer looking into this.[101]

Webb told the world he would do new things against Smollett in court on February 11, 2020. They said Smollett was guilty of six felonies for lying to the police.[102] The government's special lawyer said they are doing these six things because of four lies he told police.[103][102]

In court

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In March 2021, Smollett tried to hire lawyer Nenye Uche to handle this for him him, but the government's lawyers said he couldn't do that because they said he would not be fair.[104] They said that because the Osundairo brothers said to the government's lawyers that Uche had spoken to them about what happened in 2019, with the Osundairos later writing important court papers that this is really true.[104] Uche has said that is not true, saying he only met the Osundairos' mother and a family friend, and only to tell them he could not be their lawyer because they already had a lawyer.[104]

As of October 16, 2021, a judge had said no when Smollett's lawyers asked to just end the case. Finding people to be the people who are not lawyers who will help decide the case happened on November 29, 2021.[105][106][107][108] During the time this was happening in court, Smollett's lawyer said the judge tried to attack her by lunging at her while they were talking away from other people; another Smollett lawyer has earlier said the judge made faces and snarled while things were happening in court. The judge said that did not happen. Smollett's lawyers asked to end what was happening in court and try it again because of what they say the judge did. The judge said no to that.[109][110] During the time they were in court in 2021, the government's lawyers showed pictures from cameras showing Smollett and the two "attackers" in a car a few days before the attack. When asked about it, Smollett said that he had said he would work out with Abimbola Osundairo but did not do so the workout when Olabinjo Osundairo had shown up. He had not said Olabinjo Osundairo could be there.[111] Government lawyer Webb said, in the first things he said in court, that this showed the group getting ready to do the fake crime later.[112]

While he was talking in court, Smollett said, for the first time, that he had had sex with Abimbola Osundairo, one of the two brothers he hired to fake the attack.[113][114] However, when he was talking in court, Osundairo insisted that he is not gay.[115] Ola Osundairo, who Smollett said does not like gays, talked in court to say that he gets paid to do homosexual things, such as working at a bar as a bouncer and being seen at pride parades.[116]

On December 9, 2021, the people who are not lawyers who were helping the court found Smollett guilty on five of the six felonies.[117]

In late February 2022, one of Smollett's lawyers asked for that to be thrown away, saying that Smollett's rights were broken when his lawyers were not allowed to help choose the people who would help the court, and that the judge did some things wrong before and during this time in court.[118]

On March 10, 2022, the court said Smollett will have to be in county jail for 150 days,[14] and will have to pay $120,106 for the overtime spent by Chicago police.[15] While talking about what should be done with Smollett, which lasted more than five hours, Judge James B. Linn said very bad things about Smollett from the bench, many times calling him only worried about himself and not others. Linn also said that Smollett lied during an important time in court.[119][120] After being that, Smollett said loud things in the courtroom, during which he said he wasd not guilty. He also shouted many times he did not want to kill himself.

On March 16, 2022, a three-person Illinois court for talking about whether a lower court is right or wrong, made of Judges Thomas Hoffman, Joy Cunningham and Maureen Connors, said 2-1, that Smollett be let go, upon his giving of $150,000 to the court, while the court decides. Hoffman and Cunningham said that, while Connors did not want to do that.[121] The court's said that, if the court did not let Smollett go while they talked about the case, he would be in jail the whole time even if they then said that was wrong and he should not have been in jail.[122] Under Illinois state law, Smollett did not have to give them cash but must go to all the times in court when they will talk about his case. Smollett's lawyers also said before the court that Smollett's health and safety would be in danger while he was in jail, which the government's lawyers said was not true.[123]

As of March 2022, the Osundairo brothers have not been taken to court for what some have said they did in this attack.[124] In December 2021, during the second time this was in court, Abimbola took to Instagram saying things that seem to mock what Smollett said, by showing the world a picture of himself with a towel wrapped around his own neck and asked people to say what the picture is about, with a tag that shows he was in Boystown when he took the picture, one of the largest LGBT places in the Midwestern United States.[115]

On March 1, 2023, Smollett's lawyer asked a court to get rid of Smollett's 150-days in jail he was meant to have because he had been found guilty of these felonies.[125] On December 1, 2023, the Illinois Appellate Court said the finding of guilt was right and Smollett will have to be in jail for the 150 days.[126] In March 2024, the Supreme Court of Illinois said that they will let Smollett talk in teir court about things he says are wrong about this, but they did not sasy when.[127]

What other people said

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The person Smollett plays was taken out of the last two parts of Empire's fifth part.[128] The people who make the show said on April 30, 2019, that "at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to Empire."[129] Fox ssaid that Empire would be ended at the end of Part 6.[129]

Before being put in jail, many important people in the Democratic Party, such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand, quickly came out in to say good things about Smollett and said bad things about the hate crime that he said happened.[130] After he was put in jail, many important right-wing people who talk about politics and then-President Donald Trump said bad things about what Smollett did and asked if the Democratic politicians who said good things about Smollett would say they had been wrong.[131] Later, Democrats who were trying to become president who had said good things about Smollett backed off what they had said before and said that Smollett doing this does bad things to those people who have real hate crimes happen to them.[132]

Some important people have talked about how this is like and unalike to other fake race problems.[140]

Aftewr the court said Smollett had to be in jail, Chicago Msyor Lori Lightfoot said that the evil lie that Mr. Smollett told made the police work over 1,500 hours of overtime that made the city pay over $130,000 tothe police to do that work and that the city feels good that the court said that Smollett is being made to deal with what he did and that the city will be paid back for what he did.[141]

Problems in court

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On March 28, 2019, lawyers working for the city of Chicago who were told what to do by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, sent Smollett a letter saying he had to pay the city $130,000 they had to pay to look into this, saying they would take him to court about it; the letter also told him about a law which they could use to make him pay three times what they had to pay and also the money they had to pay lawyers to handle this.[142]

On April 12, 2019, the city took Smollett to the Circuit Court of Cook County for $130,000[143][144] and $1,000 for each lie he told to the city, and three times the money the city had to pay.[further explanation needed][143] On October 22, federal judge Virginia Kendall said she would not let Smollett end this. Smollett had said she should do that because he could not have known the amount of money that the police would spend if he lied.[145][146] In November 2019, Smollett took them to court, saying that the city was making many people mock and harm him.[147]

On April 23, 2019, the Osundairo brothers went to federal court to say that Smollett's lawyers had lied about them.[148][149]

Making television shows about this

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  • On March 13, 2023, a 5-part show about this fake hate crime called Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax was played on Fox Nation.[150][151]
  • In 2022, Faking It – Jussie Smollett, a special 47-minute-long part of a Discovery show, was shown, in which talked about things about Smollett's body moves while he is talking, the way he talks and the way crime experts think his mind works.[152]

References

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