Jussie Smollett charges dropped, actor won’t be prosecuted on charges he faked attack

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In a shocking announcement Tuesday morning, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said it will not be prosecuting Jussie Smollett, who was previously accused of faking an anti-black, anti-gay hate crime in Chicago in order to drum up publicity for his role on the TV drama “Empire.”

Fox News has learned the judge granted a nolle pros, which essentially means that the case has been dropped and that he will no longer be prosecuted for the alleged crime. 

It’s unclear at this time why the court decided not to proceed with prosecution, but the former “Empire” star is expected to give a statement after he leaves the courthouse later today.

Smollett previously pled “not guilty” to 16 counts of disorderly conduct stemming from the alleged incident in which he claimed two men beat him, poured bleach on him and placed a rope around his neck before yelling, “This is MAGA country.” His lawyer, Tina Glandian, entered the plea on Smollett’s behalf just hours after Judge Steven Watkins was assigned the case. The next court date was scheduled for April 17.

However, Smollett was brought in for an emergency court session in which the judge ruled the case against him would be dropped.

Doubt was cast on the open-and-shut nature of the case when Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham wrote the Justice Department following reports that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx asked Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to let the FBI investigate Smollett’s allegations that he was attacked by two masked men after the former chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama allegedly informed Foxx that Smollett’s family had concerns about the probe.

According to local reports, Johnson was blindsided by Tuesday’s events and is expected to address the situation later in the day.

Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement that Smollett’s record “has been wiped clean.”

Anne Kavanaugh, the crisis manager the actor hired, said Smollet is a “victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.”

A rep for Fox, which produces and airs “Empire,” said the studio and network had no immediate comment.

A spokeswoman for Cook County prosecutors didn’t immediately respond to messages requesting comment.

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18 thoughts on “Jussie Smollett charges dropped, actor won’t be prosecuted on charges he faked attack

  1. Just heard corporate Judge Napolitano comment on the issue of whether the federal government might prosecute for the mail fraud committed. He said “We are a country of dual sovereignty”. That would be the federal and state corporations.
    This dirty son of a bitch, just like the jews who paint swastikas on their doors, will never be touched. Just like with blackwater USA, any prosecutions might deter others from committing crimes, and hey, we have an agenda here.

  2. He’s being protected by the Obama’s
    There’s plenty of pictures of him and them yucking it up
    This stunt was clearly a false flag to get the anti lynching law passed
    , why? Because they all fear a neck stretching is in their future
    And all the dirty politics of Chicago and the corrupt pigs

    Too many coincidences to not add it all up

    Two sets of laws
    One for them and one for us
    That is until we get off our collective asses and give them the Revolution they never thought could happen

      1. Don’t lie to a smart person, one that overthinks , it never ends well.
        Such people have trained their minds to look for the inconsistencies, the matches , the liars associations and the loops in their story
        Sometimes we investigate to find the missing links and if things don’t add up or make sense we keep digging until things do make sense
        I’m that kind of person
        I’m hated by a lot of people, but that’s ok
        I’m a misentrope anyways so it doesn’t bother me one bit , they hate that too lol

  3. I have pictures of him with Michael “ big mike” Obama , Barry Soroto “obama”
    And Maxine Waters

    Complete false flag
    Someone’s pretty scared about rope

  4. “In a shocking announcement Tuesday morning, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said it will not be prosecuting Jussie Smollett,…”

    Shocking? SERIOUSLY???

    PAR FOR THE F%&KING COURSE THESE DAYS… HARDLY A BLIP ON THE SHOCK-O-METER!!!!!

    Shocking ONLY to the severely retarded.

  5. Video evidence..check
    Payment evidence…check
    Testimony by (2) ‘paid’ men evidence…check
    Not enough evidence to convict?<——Really?
    The system is rigged. < because it was for a purpose already stated, and until the true rule of law is refreshed in this country ,, we get 1 day closer to full on Revolution

    Im thinking this bullshit needs to go to a higher power ..because this judge is compromised with corporate gang money … check his bank accts.

    and really make um shit the bed , rescind the no lynching law and watch their heads explode

  6. Will anyone be rioting because of this call? Oh this boils the blood.

    And the “kill whitey” theme sails on. You can’t call injustice out if it gets in the way of the Communist Globalization Homogenization. But then again, that’s who/what the courts are.

    I do not think we’ve heard the last of this debacle. For myself, I’m on life-long Jussie boycott. Will never support, watch, or purchase anything he is involved in. Let’s see if he’ll keep his job and who will hire him next.

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  7. Wiki-Smollett is biracial.[9] His mother is African-American and his father was Jewish (his family emigrated from Russia and Poland).[10] He has said that his father would have “killed you if you called him white.”

    Then there’s that…

  8. It would have been shocking if he WAS prosecuted! ANYONE (especially a celebrity) connected to the Obamas will get away with anything (ESPECIALLY IN CHICAGO!)…Repent, Smollett, before the justice you didn’t get now is gotten later, or would you rather have “gnashing of teeth” on your bones as you “weep”? Not judging here…Jesus Himself said these very words.

  9. There no rule of law left in this country none , if you have money and buds in high places you never pay the price . but ass crowns like him run free . I can hope that this judge does the time he should of been doing

    1. Happened a long time ago I’m afraid to say

      A good example of the loss of ROL is OJ Simpson circus
      And I’m sure there were ones before that
      But for a lot of people that was further proof of celebrity and rich special treatment

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