it's the Truthyness of it...
Posted on 02/19/2019 7:13:29 AM PST by RoosterRedux
He’ll be in rehab by the end of the week.
Smollett made a huge error. He mailed a threat letter to himself. This is an on going investigation and tied in with the fake attack the boy is looking at big boy prison time
Yuppers. You sure don’t mail a letter with white powder in it and expect the Postal Inspectors to take it lightly!
“The black female Democrat DA has punted it to the grand jury. No way a Cook County GJ inducts the black homo celebritard.”
One common theme on the “Second City Cop” blog is what a worthless sack of excrement Kim Foxx (the Cook County DA) is when it comes to prosecutions, especially involving certain demographics. So you’re almost certainly correct - if it’s up to Foxx, he’ll skate, at least at some level. Now if the feds get involved, that could be a different story.
“Nothing happened. What is different this time?”
The Rolling Stone story was basically a fictional story mislabeled as nonfiction, which isn’t actually a crime. No police report was filed, so couldn’t be any false reporting charges. No actual person was named as the perp (though people later speculated that a real person was used as the basis for one of the characters), so there could be no libel or slander case either.
Now with this case, we have false police reports, we have terrorist threats sent through the US mail (not just to himself but to his workplace), and we have payment of money to people in order to perpetuate a hoax, which is probably grounds for some type of fraud and criminal conspiracy charges as well.
“So, it appears that Smollett intended the staged attack to be recorded, but botched the location because he did not realize the CCTV surveillance camera was pointed in the opposite direction.”
This gets better and better.
So, Jussie paid some guys he knew from his acting gig to give him a beatdown in order to get national publicity for a fake hate crime. Only, the beatdown was pointless because it was not captured by a security camera. And then his fraud gets uncovered. So, instead of boosting his career and becoming a hero, he’s exposed as a fraud, destroyed his career, and may end up a convicted felon serving time in prison.
Actually, there WAS libel, and Rolling Stone settled for big money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus#Lawsuits
On May 12, 2015, UVA associate dean Nicole Eramo, chief administrator for handling sexual assault issues at the school, filed a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court against Rolling Stone and Erdely, claiming damage to her reputation and emotional distress. Said the filing: “Rolling Stone and Erdely’s highly defamatory and false statements about Dean Eramo were not the result of an innocent mistake. They were the result of a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses, and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine, than they were about discovering the truth or actual facts.”[157] In February 2016, the judge in the lawsuit ordered Jackie to appear at a deposition on April 5, 2016.[158] On March 30, 2016, The Washington Post reported that Jackie’s lawyers have requested the April deposition be cancelled, to avoid having her “revisit her sexual assault”.[159] However, on April 2, 2016, the judge denied the motions and ordered Jackie to appear for a deposition on April 6, to be held at a secret location.[160] On November 4, 2016, after 20 hours of deliberation,[161] a jury consisting of eight women and two men found Rolling Stone, the magazine’s publisher and Erdely liable for defaming Eramo.[162] On November 7, 2016, the jury decided that Rolling Stone and Erdely were liable for 3 million dollars in damages to Eramo.[163]
On November 9, 2015, Phi Kappa Psi filed a $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone in state court “to seek redress for the wanton destruction caused to Phi Kappa Psi by Rolling Stone’s intentional, reckless, and unethical behavior”.[164][165] In September 2016, the magazine sought to have the lawsuit dismissed; however, a circuit court judge ruled that the suit could proceed.[166] On June 13, 2017, the lawsuit was settled for $1.65 million.[167]
A further lawsuit by a number of members of the fraternity was greenlighted by a court of appeals on 19 September 2017, after originally being dismissed by a lower court in June 2016.[168] The lawsuit was settled on 21 December 2017.[169]
#19 and with CNN recording it.
it's the Truthyness of it...
We'll know in 95 years when the FBI concludes its investigation of the letter.
Using the US mail to fabricate a terrorist hoax. That’s a major diff. It’s federal and can’t be buried by the locals or the state. It snowballs. As I said on another thread, if Roger Stone gets the Bin Laden treatment for a process crime and this guy gets off for filing a false police report AND using the mail for a terroristic hoax...two felonies (plus whatever else there is)...then I give up. Trumps DOJ may not can ensure that he pays for the false police report but they CAN ensure he pays for the fake mail threat. If nothing happens...stick a fork in this country, there is no justice possible and the truly guilty will never pay.
If they’re done persecuting PDJT by then.
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