So about this "MAGA" attack on the Empire actor

[Gene]

Well I think you all owe Jussie an apology.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loc ... story.html

Well, at least he's clear of State charges.

The prosecutor who dropped disorderly conduct charges against the actor Jussie Smollett defended the decision, saying her office was uncertain it had enough evidence to gain a conviction and wanted to focus on bigger crime in Chicago, she wrote in an op-ed.

The prosecutor, Kim Foxx, the Cook County state’s attorney, wrote in an op-ed in The Chicago Tribune on Friday that she welcomed an “outside, nonpolitical review of how we handled this matter.”

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/k ... llett.html

Smollett also may face federal charges of mail fraud, as the FBI is investigating whether or not he also sent himself hate mail laced with white powder a week before the alleged attack occurred. If convicted, Smollett could face up to a decade in prison.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/j ... uld-benext


The FBI, Postal Service Inspector.... maybe Civil Suits?

[Gene]

The chief judge of Cook County’s Criminal Court Thursday grudgingly agreed to consider a request that he let another court decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of Jussie Smollett’s case.

Judge LeRoy K. Martin Jr.’s son, Leroy III, was hired last year by Foxx’s office, creating conflict of interest for the elder Martin if he weighs-in on starting an investigation that could see Foxx called as a witness, retired Appeals Court Judge Sheila O’Brien argued Thursday.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mark Rotert, head of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit, argued that O’Brien’s latest motion was a distraction, and that state law “slam dunks” her petition for a special prosecutor and attempts to subpoena Foxx and other witnesses.

“She can do a good job of filing all kinds of motions and subpoenas and getting publicity,” Rotert said. “Because she cannot win, she comes in and misdirects with all sorts of issues about your son.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/jussi ... rime-hoax/

[Grandpa's Spells]

Jussie written out of the show. Shoulda gone to rehab.

[Fat Cat]

Chicago is a fucking gutter. I have a solution, but it involves VX gas.

[Turdacious]

An Illinois judge Thursday ordered Jussie Smollett's criminal case file be unsealed.

Smollett was accused of filing a false police report claiming he was the victim of a hate crime attack carried out by two men on a city street in January, but less than three weeks after being indicted on 16 felony counts, Chicago prosecutors dropped all charges against the actor.

On the same day the charges were dismissed in late March, Smollett's defense team requested that the evidence and records in the case be immediately sealed, and the state did not object, according to court documents [...]

"To be sure, it is easily conceivable that a defendant whose case was dismissed would wish to maintain his sense of privacy, even if, perhaps especially if, the media covered the case," Judge Steven G. Watkins wrote in the decision. "However, that isn't that case."

"While the court appreciates that the defendant was in the public eye before the events that precipitated this case, it was not necessary for him to address this so publicly and to such an extent. By doing so, the court cannot credit his privacy interest as good cause to keep the case records sealed," the decision said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/re ... s-n1009281

[Turdacious]

Almost 500 pages of legal docs were released in the Jussie Smollett case, inspiring more questions about why Chicago prosecutors decided to drop all 16 charges against the former Empire actor just days after he was indicted for allegedly faking a hate crime. The docs, which had originally been sealed, contradict what the police initially said was the motive for the crime — that Smollett was dissatisfied with his salary on the hit Fox show [...]
The documents chronicle texts dating back many months before the incident that show conversations between Smollett and the brothers, including one in which Smollett was allegedly trying to buy drugs from one of the men, including “weed, molly or Whitney,” a slang for cocaine. According to the documents, Smollett used Venmo to pay for drugs.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/jussie- ... ments.html
Not sure what's dumber-- buying illegal drugs with electronic payment, or selling them that way.

[Grandpa's Spells]

Hate crimers totallly have a free pass on beating up Jussie now. Nobody will believe him.

[Gene]

Hate crimers totallly have a free pass on beating up Jussie now. Nobody will believe him.

The same people who kept Jussie's ass out of Prison have invested too much in him to let him get hurt now.

Besides, Tawana Brawley is living a nice life today. She's a Nurse, a Muslim and is pretty happy. Maybe unlike Jussie she really got abused and violated?

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/20-yea ... e-1.258639

[Grandpa's Spells]

You're citing a 12 year old article about a 30 year old non-event.

[Fat Cat]

You're citing a 12 year old article about a 30 year old non-event.

What's wrong with being racist? Asians, blacks, and latinos are...so what? You think you're better than them?

[Gene]

You're citing a 12 year old article about a 30 year old non-event.

Sounds familiar though, doesn't it?

History doesn't repeat itself, Spells, but it sometimes it does rhyme.

[Gene]

You're citing a 12 year old article about a 30 year old non-event.

What's wrong with being racist? Asians, blacks, and latinos are...so what? You think you're better than them?

Troy's love of banjos and this trying to keep up with the Progressives suggests that he's part of the Hillbilly diaspora who migrated to Chicago for work.

Hillbillies are the folks who in the past brewed up "likker", screwed cousins, went "thieving" and brought back their "stealings" in a "poke". They lived in simple homes that had animals running in and out, lots of trash, undone dishes in the sink (or warshbasin) and barefoot kids outside. Their descendants live in mobile homes (or trailers), the rude folks call them "Trailer Trash".

A burn barrel and outhouse provided basic sanitation needs, though for real mountain types a "trash fire" is sufficient. The damn things stink, all three of them.

A garden helped feed the family. The annual purchase of a young pig and keeping some chickens provided smoked meat and eggs. Poaching wildlife and stealing portable (ie, you can tote in your arms) livestock from "rich" neighbors helped to supplement the diet.

Evening's entertainment was and still is sitting around a fire in the dark. This is pleasant but unnerves "city people".

Troy is probably trying hard to shed that sordid family history by being more white than white. Hence his embrace of the Chicago elitist values. welfare, shopping at Whole Foods, gun control and the like.

In real life Steve is probably a decent person. Probably loves blue grass festivals and the like. He doesn't have to compensate for family history. As if they are bad people. Most are pretty decent as long as they're sober.

[Grandpa's Spells]

Just by random chance you should have had a few things right and yet didn’t.

[Gene]

Just by random chance you should have had a few things right and yet didn’t.

You're not that simple, Troy.

[Grandpa's Spells]

[Kazuya Mishima]

Chappelle's comedic genius is truly something.

[Turdacious]

Jussie Smollett sues city of Chicago for malicious prosecution

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/j ... rosecution
Alternative title: Jussie Smollett's Attorneys Bet Actor Still Has Money

[DrDonkeyLove...]

Jussie Smollett sues city of Chicago for malicious prosecution

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/j ... rosecution
Alternative title: Jussie Smollett's Attorneys Bet Actor Still Has Money

If Mel Gibson can make a comeback in Wokeywood, a well spoken, good looking, gay, black & abuse claiming so-called victim might still get some bags o' money. Sharpton built his career on a fake claim of abuse and racial division and is killing it.

Senator Smollett has a nice Illinois ring to it.

[Turdacious]

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Tuesday admitted that her office “dropped the ball on the level of transparency” in her handling of the Jussie Smollett case — but argued she has made the prosecutor’s office “a model for the nation.”

“When I ran for this office in 2016 I ran on a platform that would be fundamentally different than how this office was run,” Foxx said. “That’s what I’ve done, the efforts that we’ve led on criminal justice reform are fundamental, I believe, to public safety.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2 ... m-kim-foxx

[Grandpa's Spells]

I feel like prosecutors could have offered him a deal. "We will let you walk, but if you walk, Dave Chappelle is going to do 5 minutes on you on his next Netflix special and destroy your career. Or you can do do 3 months in Cook County."

Juicy: "I'll take the three months."

[johno]

I feel like prosecutors could have offered him a deal..... "Dave Chappelle is going to do 5 minutes on you on his next Netflix special and destroy your career. Or you can do do 3 months in Cook County."

Juicy: "I'll take the three months."

Why not both?


Seriously, false accusations of crimes deserve the same punishment that the false accusers expose their victims to.

[Grandpa's Spells]

I agree but also think he's now worse off than if he'd confessed, taken the hit and done a PR move like going to rehab. Instead he's created the impression of having gotten away with it and is getting destroyed by people who feel no need to hold back and not "kick him when he's down" like they might if he said this was a drug/drinking/mental illness thing.

Now it's too late. He's gotten brutalized by Chappelle and Rock, and while I think Louis CK will come back, Juicy will not.

[Shapecharge]

Hey Stephen, you live in the Chicago area, right? So when all this shit was going down last year was that all that was on the local news and in the papers? I don't know how many newspapers you have up there but I would imagine the front pages had to be filled with nothing but Jussie shit.

[Grandpa's Spells]

Yep. The initial "attack" wasn't widely covered on the news (though it made the paper), which upset Jussie, but did get picked up on social media, so some of the coverage was of the social media outpouring.

Once it started looking fake, you'd see op-eds about what an asshole this guy is, but I don't remember anything about this being front page news apart maaaybe from the backlash/corruption angle. I'd imagine this isn't what most would expect, but The Chicago Tribune is historically very conservative (Obama was the first Democrat it had ever endorsed). When the police superintendent and mayor got vocal about it, it was about the hoax.

The biggest shock seemed to be the charges getting dropped. It seems likely that Kim Foxx may lose her job partly over this. He's not famous enough to garner unconditional support, he wasn't particularly well-liked, so people really didn't get it.

All that being said, I'm not entirely disappointed with the outcome, because it looks like the worst-case scenario. I really think he's done.

[Fat Cat]

Don't forget Kamala was pumping the story.