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Judge orders Google to turn over Jussie Smollett’s emails
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a special prosecutor who is looking into why prosecutors abruptly dismissed criminal charges against the actor.
On Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported that it had obtained two search warrants submitted by special prosecutor Dan Webb and signed off by Cook County Judge Michael Toomin last month.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office filed and quickly dropped 16 counts of disorderly conduct against Smollett for allegedly staging a January 2019 attack in downtown Chicago and lying about it to police. Toomin appointed Webb months later and the warrants offer the first public hints about what he has been investigating.
When the charges were filed, Chicago police alleged the black and openly gay Smollett — unhappy with his salary and hoping to promote his career — paid two brothers to stage what appeared to be a racist and homophobic attack, in which one of the men looped a rope fashioned as a noose around his neck.
In the warrants, Webb seeks information from the Google accounts of Smollett and his manager, including unsent draft emails and deleted messages. He also requests files from their Google Drive cloud storage services, Google Voice texts, and web browsing history.
https://apnews.com/69832caded917d8c8643fbc69ab7eb2e
Intersting news coming out of chi town
Good news on Hannity tonight! During the commercials, there was an advertisement for Darrel Issa returning to congress. He has run in two San Diego area districts before and he was previously my congressman and it was curious he stepped down when he did for the seat to be (literally) stolen though the district(s) have been increasingly blue over the years in conjunction with all of California. At the time it was said he might run again in Orange County ... but I saw the ad here in his old district. I hope this further suggests the DHS ran ops on the 2018 elections for voter fraud. TBD ;)