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2021-11-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Jury Selection Begins in Jussie Smollett Case More Than Two Years after Hate Crime Hoax
[NATIONALREVIEW] Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Jussie Smollett
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
, the actor who allegedly falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime.Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct in February of 2019 for allegedly making a false report to reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
police in January 2019, when he claimed he had been attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs at him and wrapped a rope around his neck. He told police the assault occurred in the middle of a frigid Chicago night while he was out picking up a Subway sandwich.

Police investigated the alleged incident, which Smollett claimed happened in the upscale neighborhood of Streeterville, but ultimately shifted focus to probing whether Smollett paid brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo to stage an attack after first investigating the brothers as persons of interest.

The 39-year-old actor allegedly orchestrated the fake hate crime to "promote his career" and paid the two men $3,500 to help him, former Chicago police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson said.

The actor was arrested on suspicion of filing a false report and released on bond. Prosecutors said Smollett texted one of the brothers on January 25 and asked to talk. He outlined a plan and rehearsed it and gave the Osundairo brothers $100 to buy clothing and a rope for a noose. Phone records show Smollett spoke to the brothers roughly an hour before the alleged attack and an hour after, police said.

The brothers told police Smollett first "attempted to gain attention by sending a false letter that relied on racial, homophobic and political language," according to Johnson. The letter, which was sent to the set of Empire, contained white powder and a drawing of a stick figure hanging from a tree, police said. Smollett allegedly told Osundairo he was disappointed in the reaction of the show’s team to the letter.
Posted by Fred 2021-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ]  Top

#1 
Only 2 years?
I thought the plan was to run out the statue of limitations.

Shouldn't he be sued for all the damages his hoax caused also?đź’°
Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-30 04:06||   2021-11-30 04:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Jury selection ended on Monday and Prosecution and Defense gave opening statements.

Prosecution has new videotape of Smollett coaching a dry run a day before the hoax.

Defense is claiming the brothers set Jussie up somehow (no I don't understand that either)
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-30 11:32||   2021-11-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ "Bitch[ez] set me up!" is the default Urban Alibi in such matters (see Barry, Marion)
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-30 12:14||   2021-11-30 12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 today the defense asserted that the Osudairo brothers were sophisticated con men since they had cell phones and computers
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-30 17:52||   2021-11-30 17:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Chicago's great columnist John Kass: Clown Up!

Is Jussie the only clown in the drama? Oh, no. Heck no.

Liberal media carried his hateful water on their news networks and print, gushing their concern and fanning his angry race baiting flames to weaponize his claims for political purposes. And the allies of corrupt corporate legacy media–those Democratic politicians who championed him and used him, from the president on down–are now taking a rather low profile.

Media and the politicians really don’t want to be reminded of Smollett. These big, evil and rather powerful clowns hope you won’t remember their roles in the play.

But my problem is that I can’t help but remember. And isn’t it rather cruel and heartless of them to slink off and abandon Jussie in this, his time of need? So I ask them, and you, in the name of all that’s decent:

Where are the other big clowns in the Smollett case? Don’t hide in the little clown car big boys and girls. Stand up, you big clowns. Clown up!
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-30 22:24||   2021-11-30 22:24|| Front Page Top

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