Posted on 02/21/2019 4:38:32 AM PST by traderrob6
Under Illinois state law, filing a false police report is a Class 4 felony which carries a sentence of one to three years in prison.
•Mailing threatening communications — If federal investigators believe Smollett was involved with mailing himself the threatening letter, then it is possible that he could be charged with mailing threatening communications, which consists of “knowingly so depositing or causing to be delivered ... any communication … addressed to any other person and containing any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another” and can result imprisonment of up to five years.
•Additional federal charges related to hoax threats (up to five years in prison), conspiracy (up to five years in prison), and obstruction of justice (with a variety of penalties) could all also potentially come into play if Smollett is determined to have carried out the mail threat hoax too.
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He’ll get nothing in the way of any punishment. What he will get is: lauded by the leftist media, victim status, Hollywood awards, and a speaking engagement at the DNC convention.
10 CPD Detectives were assigned to this HOAX! I want the price tag for all of it. This Phony, Fake, Fraudster needs to reimburse double the amount it cost Chicago. Not to mention ALL of the other cases ignored because of this HOAX.
He'll get what's referred to in this country as the "I'm a progressive liberal down for the cause" legal system.
Kind of like sharia law, separate and different from the normal U.S. legal system.
Only dispensed to those who the democRATS deem beneficial to their agenda.
He will get time-served.
I’ll be surprised if he serves 6 months.
This isn’t his first rodeo or the first time he has lied to LEO
Will it factor into whatever sentence he receives? Hope so :)
He's obviously a lib, you think he'd care?
They've turned state's evidence early, which will mitigate the worst for them.
As an aside, I couldn't help but thinking what dim bulbs they must be when I saw the video of them buying the uniforms for Jesse's skit. Each has his red hat, face mask, etc. neatly folded in front of him, as if each was going down the list and they were going to pay for them separately. Gee... did they each buy half a rope?
If I were doing something like that, I'd have bought a whole bunch of unrelated crap, mixed the whole mess into a shopping cart, and had the checkout drag each item across the register scanner. The picture of them with their two stacks of gear is so stupid it almost looks staged, although I believe its real.
He won’t spend any time in jail/prison. Because ‘it COULD HAVE HAPPENED’. And of course RACISM.
They bought the rope at one of my customers home centers in north Chicago. Crafty Beaver Home Center, an Ace hardware store has a record of them buying the rope/cloths line. They were not the smartest folks.
He'll get a fine and community service....which may include working on Kamila's campaign.
This gay, black Trump hater will not serve any time.
“... addressed to any other person...”
“OTHER” person? He sent it to himself. That’s not an OTHER person. Just wondering....
The “address” was Fox studios in Chicago NOT his personal home address so that could be the clincher.
He won’t serve a day.
He’ll be diverted into some psych counseling program, and when rehabilitated Hollywood producers will be tripping over each other with offers.
After all the facts may be wrong, but he had the right narrative.
He’ll take it over the consequences of ratting on Kamala & Booker.
I hope they hit him hard enough to make other liar-haters think twice before pulling the same crap. We’re overdue for handing out some serious repercussions.
Why not charge him with a hate crime??
4. Reimbursement of cost of investigation, police, FBI and fire department response.
How much time will Obama and Harris get for helping to plan this scam?
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