On Thursday, the City of Chicago filed a civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett. This lawsuit comes after their threat – in the form of a strongly worded bill – to see if they could get Jussie to pay for the costs of the investigation. When the city of Chicago sent him the bill demanding $130K, I said at the time that it didn’t make any legal sense – all of the charges were dropped against Smollett, he was not found guilty in any court of law, and he has never made any kind of plea or admission of guilt. What legal basis does the city of Chicago have for demanding payment for the investigation which is, legally speaking, a legitimate one in which no one went to jail or even went to trial? Well, that’s what this lawsuit is about – the $130K being demanded is “meant to cover the cost of police overtime during the investigation,” meaning they want Jussie to pay for “1,836 overtime hours” AND $1000 for each “false statement” made by Smollett. Again, he was never convicted of anything. Here’s more about the lawsuit:
Jussie Smollett purposely tried to mislead authorities by falsely describing the men he claimed attacked him as white, according to a civil lawsuit filed by the city of Chicago. The city filed the suit against the “Empire” actor over his refusal to reimburse it for overtime payments to police officers who investigated his alleged hate crime hoax. The complaint, filed in the Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday, comes after the city gave Smollett a week earlier this month to pay $130,000 in the police overtime.
Smollett, 36, who is black and gay, allegedly hired brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo, who also are black, to stage an assault on him and make it look like a hate crime, according to authorities.
The actor told cops that the primary attacker “was wearing a ski mask that covered his entire face, with the exception of the area around his eyes, by which (Smollett) could tell the attacker was white-skinned,” according to the lawsuit.
“(Smollett) made this statement despite knowing that the Osundairo Brothers are not white-skinned,” the suit says. “By providing this false description, (Smollett) purposely misled the CPD officers to believe that his attackers were white, when, in fact, (Smollett) knew that his attackers were the Osundairo brothers.”
In adds: “At no point did Defendant inform police that he knew his attackers or recognized their appearances or voices.”
[From Page Six]
I wish I could put the hand-clap emoji in-between every word here: Jussie. Smollett. Was. Not. Convicted. Of. Anything. The cops can’t even prove that Jussie LIED about anything. They can prove that the Osundairo brothers were involved somehow, but that’s only from the brothers’ own statements, not from any corroborating statements from Jussie. I still believe that the state’s attorney dropped the charges because the Chicago PD utterly f-cked up the investigation too, and because the CPD were leaking all of that crazy sh-t to TMZ on an hourly basis. According to those real-time leaks, the Chicago detectives never even believed Jussie’s story, and their hours of overtime investigation were spent disproving his story.
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