Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police.
A grand jury in Chicago has returned a 16-count felony indictment against television actor Jussie Smollett, accusing him of falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a hate-crime assault, according to court documents on Friday.
Neither Smollett's lawyer nor his spokeswoman could immediately be reached for comment on the latest charges.At the time he was initially charged, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said that Smollett had paid two brothers $35,000 to stage an assault on him in a hoax orchestrated to somehow further his acting career.
The indictment, returned by a grand jury on Thursday, charges Smollett with 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct alleging that he gave false accounts of an attack on him to police investigators.Jussie Smollett's character cut from Empire after arrest Smollett also told police, according to authorities, that the attackers had yelled,"This is MAGA country," referring to Trump's"Make America Great Again" slogan. Smollett took himself to a hospital but was not seriously hurt, police had said.
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