Posted on 02/17/2019 9:22:10 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Jussie Smollett is not officially a suspect in the Chicago PD investigation, despite multiple sources inside the department who tell us he is squarely just that.
We reached out to Chi PD and asked if the status of the "Empire" star has officially gone from victim to suspect. We were told ... "We have some information that needs to be corroborated and verified with the Empire cast member before we can answer this question. After new developments, we've reached out to his attorney and requested additional time to interview him."
It actually makes sense ... the cops are playing the case close to the vest, so witnesses aren't influenced by police statements. As we reported, there was a sentiment early on in the Department Jussie's story didn't track, but officially they never let on.
As we reported, the 2 brothers with connections to both "Empire" and Jussie "completely cooperated" with cops during their interrogation, and they made it clear ... their participation was at the behest of Jussie.
Jussie's lawyer has indirectly lashed out at the brothers, doubling down that Jussie is a victim and "anyone claiming otherwise is lying."
As we reported, at least one of the brothers turned over his phone to cops and there's a call between him and Jussie in the vicinity of the "attack," but before it happened.
There are multiple reports the brothers bought the rope in question at an Ace Hardware store in Chicago.
We're told so far ... Jussie has not agreed to another interview with cops.
Homoerotic asphyxiation.
The accusation that Smollett stages a racial attack by whites is inconvenient rebuke of the Left’s cherished narrative that whites are the eternal oppressor.
Well this one is quite an interesting angle on a ‘Nigerian scam’.
Social Jussie Warrior
FakeNoose
Lol. Clever...+1
I think it means they were born from the same mother, and possibly the same father, as well. After all, they were born in Nigeria, not in da’ hood./S
From: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/how_the_smollett_hate_crime_case_unraveled.html
The ongoing collapse of the claimed hate crime against actor Jussie Smollett has been an example of bottom-up, not top-down news gathering. Chicago’s Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and the CPD’s official communications have at every opportunity defended the original narrative. But the rank-and-file cops, quite probably outraged at what was fairly quickly seen by them as an obvious fraud, leaked to their friends in the local media. And two outstanding local websites, Second City Cop and especially CWB Chicago (which reports honestly about crime in the Windy City, and which depends on donations – donate here), have been to go-to sources putting it all together many steps ahead of what the more established media were willing to publish.
CWB Chicago has a round-up of the latest developments in the fast-breaking case. Some excerpts, but be sure to read the whole thing:
Saturday evening, CPD’s top spokesperson said investigators’ interrogations of Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and his brother Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo have “shifted the trajectory of the investigation. We’ve reached out to [Smollett’s] attorney to request a follow-up interview.” The two men were identified as being the “persons of interest” seen on surveillance images near the attack scene. (snip)
CBSChicago reporter Charlie De Mar reported that the Osundairo brothers were paid $3,500 to participate in the ruse with a promise to be paid another $500 upon their return from a two-week trip to Nigeria that began hours after Smollett reported the purported hate crime to police.
De Mar also reported that the Osundairo brothers told detectives that they and Smollett “rehearsed the attack days prior to it happening.”
Rafer Weigel of Fox Chicago also reported that detectives said the Osundairos were paid by Smollett to orchestrate the attack. Weigel, CNN, and Rob Elgas of ABC7 all reported that detectives had secured proof that the Osundairo brothers purchased a rope for the noose at an Ace Hardware store. That information was also included in a detailed tip about the case that CWBChicago received on Feb. 6th. (snip)
And, in a potential sign of things to come, Fox News reporter Mike Tobin reported late Saturday that “Jussie Smollett is no longer considered a victim in this case.”
One of the most intriguing, but as-yet unconfirmed, aspects of the case is raised by CWBChicago’s publication on Thursday of the search warrant used to enter the apartment of the Osundairo Brothers. In an example of the building on each other’s work of these two blogs, Second City Cop explains today:
Numerous readers sent us the Search Warrant receipt that had been circulating around Twitter, Facebook and (again) the CWB blog that has done incredible amounts of reporting. (snip)
…right on Line One is what interests us....or rather, what might finally bring the whole mess to the FBI:
Magazine on bird cage
The warrant already lists Proof of Residency farther down the receipt. Why seize a magazine? Is this the magazine that might have all the letters cut out of it for the mail threat that was sent from a south side post office to the studio about a month ago? It’s hard to believe that someone would keep that around afterwards, but everyone knows the feds take a very dim view of using the Post Office for anything illegal.
If this theory pans out, on top of state charges, the feds will have to get involved. If, as many suspect, the Osundairo Brothers have turned state’s evidence (why else would they have been released by the cops so quickly after their arrest?), Jussie Smollett’s troubles have only just begun.
The rope that he LEFT AROUND HIS NECK after the attack. What sane person who just got attacked would do that?
That was my first clue out of about 12 that screamed hoax to me.
He deserves a Razzie.
If it were anyone else then they would have been arrested already. Then the cops can question him.
Yes, the very first thing a normal person would do is get that rope off his neck, not leave it there for “evidence” to show the police. He is such a dunce.
A distressed Nigerian Prince? Maybe, Kenyan?
Either Columbo needs to be out on this case or possibly Crockett and Tubbs. They will get to the truth.
He was a big supporter of Camilia Harris and the anti-lynching law passed immediately AFTER the incident. THAT should be front page news. I bet many in Congress and the Senate were in on it, along with all his friends at work.
Obviously the police were told by the corrupt authorities to go easy on him, because he is a member of 2 highly privileged government-certified victim groups.
COLUMBO: "Just one more thing, Jussie. You said you left your house at 2 AM to get a foot long. Did you mean the kind they sell at Subway....or something else?"
A magazine made the top of the confiscate list during the search of the two brothers apartment the other night.
Be interesting to find cut out letters and words out of it...
Good one!
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