“What About Harmless, Suspicious White Powder?”
“Turns out, there’s a handy federal offense covering this sort of thing. 18 U.S.C. section 1038 makes it a crime to “engag[e] in any conduct with intent to convey false or misleading information [that] may reasonably be believed [to indicate] that” a biological agent is present. It also makes doing so a civil action, i.e. allows someone to sue.”
So anyone on the set potentially exposed to the white powder can now sue Smollette.
How to totally ruin your life....news at 10.
Every lawyer in Chicago is calling everyone who may have came in contact with that letter.