JUST IN: Jussie Smollett faces new charges in Chicago in connection to Jan. 2019 police report in which he claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime, special prosecutor announces.
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, 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.at him and wrapping a rope around his neck at about 2 a.m. in the upscale neighborhood of Streeterville.
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