This won't go away lightly. He chose to carried out this fake hate crime in a bad political climate and in Chicago of all places. They won't let him go so lightly. He has cost the police and the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in investigation costs.

It will be a miracle if he doesn't serve jail term. And he's not even helping himself by sticking to his lies. The only thing that can save him right now is coming clean and claiming mental health issues. At least then, the public can have some sense of pity for him.