Smollett was charged last month with one felony count of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
A Chicago grand jury on Friday indicted American actor Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts after allegedly lying to police about being the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime.
Instead, the 36-year-old actor – who is black and gay – has been dropped from the last two episodes of the show’s current season, and his future is now in the hands of the court. According to court documents published online by local media, the 16-count indictment lists the specific statutes Smollett violated by telling police he had been attacked when he knew “there was no reasonable ground for believing” that such crimes had occurred.
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