Jussie Smollett Sues City of Chicago for “Malicious Prosecution”
This guy…
Guy concocts faux hate crime to gin up national press attention, gets busted, Chicago insists he pay for cost of investigating bogus crime and now guy is suing for “malicious prosecution,” basically.
Back in April, the city of Chicago filed a civil complaint against actor Jussie Smollett, seeking approximately $130,000, which they claim is the price tag for investigating Smollett’s “false police report.”
Now, Smollett is counter-suing.
From the WaPo:
This week, Smollett filed a counterclaim against the city of Chicago after its April lawsuit demanding that he pay $130,000 to make up for the 1,836 hours of police overtime spent looking into the alleged hate crime. In that suit, the city stated its intention to also seek attorneys’ fees and a civil penalty of $1,000 for each of Smollett’s alleged lies. But the actor’s lawyers claimed the city “is not entitled” to any of this.
“Having agreed to accept $10,000 from Mr. Smollett as payment in full connection with the dismissal of the charges against him,” the counterclaim filed Tuesday stated of his bond, “the City cannot seek additional recovery from Mr. Smollett under the doctrine of accord and satisfaction.”
The counterclaim pointed to the “malicious prosecution” it said was carried out by the city. It singled out Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson and two detectives, Edward Wodnicki and Michael Theis, in arguing that police had disseminated “false and misleading information,” leading to media reports that Smollett might have orchestrated the alleged attack.
The scandal began in late January, when Smollett, who is black and gay, told police he had been attacked late at night by two people yelling homophobic and racist slurs. Incremental updates cast doubt upon Smollett’s story — he had worked on “Empire” with at least one of the alleged perpetrators, for instance — and in early March, he was indicted on 16 felony counts for allegedly lying to police.
Full complaint here:
Jussie Smollett Counterclaim by Anonymous jDcsAZN on Scribd
For more on our extensive coverage of the Smollett saga, see here.
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Still hard to believe that smug little bastard got off.
Really? You find it hard to believe that a wealthy, famous, and politically connected dude gets off a relatively minor charge?
I’m not even surprised that he’s counter-suing. Juicy seems to possess the cretinous stupidity to conclude that he’s factually innocent because he managed to network his way into having the charges dropped.
It’s his white privilege, you know!
Illinois prosecutor Kim Foxx is a longtime friend and associate of the entire Smolett family and should have distanced herself from the case. It is hard to believe she is running for election again.
Allege diversity. Allege violence. Invite witch hunts, perhaps warlock trials. Pay the price.
Can’t someone other than that idiotic DA re-file the charges? I don’t think an honest DA would drop all the charges without requiring some kind of guilty plea in return. But I don’t understand why the charges have to stay dropped.
Citizens can file charges, but a local lawyer took the DDA to court for not really recusing herself. A judge has appointed a different lawyer
to review the case.
How delusional do you have to be to get nailed for this and then sue?
It’s Chicago, all bets are off.
The original deal called for the $10,000 payment, and he relied on it. He may have a case, although I desperately hope not.
Couple more years he’ll be wiping your fenders at the car wash.
I hope karma hits this a-hole in a reverberating fashion.
Justice for Juicy!
Which means paying the city for the debts incurred and jail time
It’s not going to go well for him. He should fire his attorneys.
He’s going to always regret losing his acting job on “Empire.” Maybe his attorneys have some cleaning work at the office for him to do.
He is a pretty little fella. Hope his attorneys obtained substantial retainer while funds may still be available.
Won’t this idiot act like capernik and pretend to be a SJW who is a victim of racism and Trump? Then he can live off the sympathy of leftists.
Sounds like a typical lefty gaming the system; consider Lizzie.
Someone please put this idiot out of our misery.
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