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I am not a lawyer. If you send a terroristic threat through the mail that probably violates some FCC laws, even if you send it to yourself. He Filed a false report with the Chicago Police. It might go to a grand jury. If it goes to a DA in Cook County or a City Prosecutor my guess is that if they find Kamila Harris’s phone number they will try not to involve her. Part of the collective and all.

Evidently, the Chicago prosecutor is problematic - has the habit of not bringing charges against black people.

What is going to "get" Jussie in my opinion is the threat letter/white powder - FEDERAL charges. Here's a good article on all of it .... :

An excerpt from this link:

Late Monday, CWBChicago received confirmation that the letter case has been before a federal grand jury and multiple subpoenas have been generated over the course of the investigation.

In a conversation on Feb. 8th, before police met with brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo, a leading source within the Smollett attack investigation called the hate crime a "false flag" and said “There is a direct line between (the letter) and (the purported attack)." In the same conversation, the source hinted at what was to come: "This is not a whodunit. It's a how-many-people-dunit."

Whoever mailed the letter "made an enormous mistake," we were told. Federal charges were "certain."

Very good source on @JussieSmollett hate crime investigation:

"This is not a whodunit. It's a how-many-people-dunit."

Threat letter is a "direct" link to purported attack. #jussiesmollett #Chicago
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) February 11, 2019

A law firm partner who asked not to be identified by name spoke with us about the federal problems ahead for whoever mailed the letter: “If they have Smollett on the letter, he’ll be facing ’terroristic hoax’ charges, a felony. There may be federal obstruction charges as well.”

All in all, the federal legal options are numerous: “If they want to bury him, they can.”

FCC regulates over the air broadcasters... Post Office/Postal Service is a few hundred years older and is its own agency.

The law affecting Smollett's hoax letter would be 18 U.S. Code § 876. 'Mailing threatening communications'.

But I don't think that he can be said to have violated it because he sent the fake 'threat' to himself.

His biggest worry would be that some agency spent time and money investigating his letter because he filed a false report... that could bite him. But I'm not sure that anyone bothered with his hoax letter.