Jussie Smollett indicted over 'false reports,' Chicago special prosecutor announces

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Actor Jussie Smollett is once again facing charges in Chicago in connection to a January 2019 police report in which he claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime.

Smollett was indicted by a grand jury on six disorderly conduct charges on Tuesday, according to the office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb. The 37-year-old actor is already facing a $130,000 lawsuit with the city of Chicago, the cost of the resources police and prosecutors claim it took to investigate Smollett's false charge.

"A Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Jussie Smollett with making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime," the office said in a statement Tuesday.

The former "Empire" star told police in January 2019 that he was attacked by two men hurling racial and homophobic slurs at him and wrapping a rope around his neck at about 2 a.m. in the upscale neighborhood of Streeterville.
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It's about time Somollet be indicted. His little denial of guilt after he was let go last time was a bit much. He needs to see jail time. What he did was very divisive and was a huge waste of government resources.