A year after news of Jussie Smollett‘s alleged attack rocked the newswire, the narrative has taken another dramatic turn. One that sees the ‘Empire’ star facing prison again.
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Moments ago, it was announced that Chicago prosecutor Dan Webb has charged Smollett with six felony counts for allegedly lying to law enforcement about a hate attack.
Per TMZ, the indictment bills the charges under “disorderly conduct,” with all six charges asserting that he lied to police.
As reported, the case against Smollett – who’s gone from alleged victim to alleged criminal – collapsed after the Cook County State’s Attorney withdrew charges.
Yet, the office investigating the initial complaint filed civil charges against the actor – demanding that he funds the costs of investigation. Said office was countersued by Smollett and are the same office at the helm of this re-filing.
According to Webb, the charges re-filed “in the interest of justice.”
Smollett, who remains adamant about his innocence, is expected to plead not guilty when he attends court of Feb 24th to enter a plea.
If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
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Good! Justice will finally be served!
TRUMP 2020, 2024 and 2028!!!
Lmao keep dreaming.
Are those dates of his loss, heart attack, then stroke? ?
Meanwhile Trump doesn’t have to pay taxes and is guilty of abuse of power? This is why slavery took 400 years
Add Amazon’s Jeff Bezos having never paid taxes on the way to billionaire status, either.
They need to move on. The amount of time and money they spent on Jussie you would think he killed 5 ppl.
nope because if he would have actually been attacked things didnt go as planned his sexual orientation and race would be the topic things didn’t get done. i mean that was the whole point. he was attacked by whites wearing maga hats hurling homophobic slurs right. he orchestrated it and if it would have worked that would be the dialogue.
No, they need to let go of this b*******. There’s people being murdered on a daily basis in Chicago and they’re STILL chasing after this? This is exactly why nobody has faith in police.
FOH.
Meanwhile
Camila cabello and DaBaby’s “My Oh My” has now sold over 600,000 units in the US.
????
No music video
No promo
No hype
No buzz.
They hate to see it dont they
??
Talent will always win.
Uhhhh, everything you just mentioned, besides the music video (but has a LYRIC VIDEO), would imply her never mentioning this song on social media nor performing it on Fallon. So, yeah, stop with the pathetic desperation and lies. Lmao.
lmaooooo she better thank her lucky stars DaBaby leaked his *** pics lmfaoooooo. have any of her solo singles been certified plastic yet? lmfaooooooo
Lost all respect for you when you were busted writing from multiple accounts. Being a contrarian for the sake of provocation is just sad. Smh.
Wow bet he won’t lie again
I don’t agree with what he allegedly did due to the harm he has caused to the plight of racial minorities and the LGTBQ, but this now seems like too much. He has NO career, he has no hope of a career, Empire won’t even have him back as a cameo.
I don’t know what the deal is…
If he is innocent, then I feel bad for him because it is destroying his career and his reputation. On top of being a victim.
If he is indeed guilty, then he is malicious and messed up… how could you do something like this ? You are not helping the cause by making up fake crimes. And on a personal level, you destroyed everything you worked for.
And certainly your chances to get another high profile gig. It’s not like his singing nor acting career was going anywhere beyond Empire. But it would have been more $$$ for him and possibly jump on a new Fox show at the end of this one.
HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Remember when TGJ was the first to be in cahoots with Jussie and reported that he got attacked??? I bet they took down that post. Fortunately, I have a screenshot!
She ain’t going to jail, stop wasting tax payers money.
We aren’t prosecuting the president for abuse of power or not paying taxes! I’m not interested in prosecuting him for anything
Hear, hear!
Exactly. Unless that racist POS taking up space in the WH is sent to jail for his PROVEN and DOCUMENTED crimes, then stfu about what Jussie Smollett ALLEGEDLY did that was NEVER proven.
Throw his ass in jail. I bet he will enjoy dropping the soap.
They need to put their energy in to cleaning up the Chicago police department and leave Jussie alone!!! They costing the city more on this b*******!!