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Chicago Police: Jussie Smollett alleged hoax letter case handed over to FBI
Fox News ^ | 3/26/19 | Matt Richardson

Posted on 03/26/2019 8:28:09 PM PDT by Revel

Despite the hate crime hoax charges against him being stunningly dropped on Tuesday, “Empire” star Jussie Smollett may not be out of the woods just yet.

An investigation into a death threat letter the actor supposedly received prior to the alleged Jan. 29 attack has been handed over to the FBI, Chicago Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News.

Smollett initially had been suspected as the source of the letter.

“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is working closely with our law enforcement partners on this investigation,” the U.S. Postal Service said in a statement to Fox News. “We are unable to provide any additional comment at this time.”

Chicago cops previously said Smollett allegedly resorted to staging the "bogus" attack after the threatening letter he sent himself at his Chicago Fox studio two weeks earlier didn't garner enough attention.

"If he mailed that threatening letter to himself by using the post office, he engaged in postal fraud. That's five to 10 years in jail — that's three times what he's facing for filing a false report if the feds want to go there," Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 1; chicago; empire; fbi; fbismollett; georgesoros; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; smollett; smollettfbi; smollettletter; trumpdoj; usdied
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To: Revel

Watch the ‘letter’ get mysteriously shredded.


41 posted on 03/26/2019 9:45:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: conservative98

Looking at the hoax letter. It has the earmarks of someone who is a schizophrenic.


42 posted on 03/26/2019 9:45:54 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: conservative98

Oh yeah, that looks totally legit. /s


43 posted on 03/26/2019 10:17:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Osage Orange

you know.....it kinda hurts me in a way...but reality (history) repeats itself in the form of humor.....

The Keystone Cops are alive and well....


44 posted on 03/26/2019 10:18:52 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: SaveFerris

The return address is MAGA. smh.


45 posted on 03/26/2019 10:19:23 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

LOL - Possibly the worst hoax I’ve ever seen.

Well, there was the girl that got the “B” backwards....because she was using a mirror....LOL


46 posted on 03/26/2019 10:20:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Revel

Sounds like obstruction of justice and collusion by Democrats.


47 posted on 03/27/2019 12:40:14 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: rhinohunter

“Transferring the case from Chicago/Illinois over to the FBI is not necessarily good news for Jussie. However, it is good news for the left. “

That’s why I think Obama’s Chicago Democrats did it.


48 posted on 03/27/2019 1:04:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Revel

The presence of two different hoaxes points to acting with malice. If foisting a fraud upon the public is legal we’ve got a problem in the laws that needs fixing.

But I’d guess the original 16 felony counts were at least somewhat legit and based in law.


49 posted on 03/27/2019 2:03:04 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Revel

Is that the same FBI that let Hillary off, and her little helpers Cheryl and Huma too?


50 posted on 03/27/2019 2:23:13 AM PDT by Rocky
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To: goldstategop

“Most of us would be facing hard time with 16 felonies. Justice is a bitch.”

And doesn’t he also have previous convictions?


51 posted on 03/27/2019 2:36:01 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Osage Orange

Exactly. The politicized fbi will make this disappear.

JoMa


52 posted on 03/27/2019 3:08:41 AM PDT by joma89
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To: Cementjungle

yeah, whole lot of confidence in this keystone cop outfit,.


53 posted on 03/27/2019 3:41:10 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I wouldn’t be surprised if Kamala Harris’ fingerprints were on that letter.


They are. She’s involved in this. I’d bet on it.


54 posted on 03/27/2019 3:45:45 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: GOPJ

Even flaming idiots can have low friends in high places.


55 posted on 03/27/2019 3:50:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla
Even flaming idiots can have low friends in high places.

You've captured the essence of Jussie Smollett and his friends. Great one mewzilla...

56 posted on 03/27/2019 4:37:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing (and funding) Charlottesville?)
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To: Revel
It's so disgusting... liberal scum... scum making a mockery of laws the 'little people' have to follow. Guess the damn ‘elites’ bought their way into another college - oops, I mean ‘out’ of having to follow the law. Effing lowlifes - - more money than brains...
57 posted on 03/27/2019 4:58:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing (and funding) Charlottesville?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“I wouldn’t be surprised if Kamala Harris’ fingerprints were on that letter”

I don’t think that she can color that well.


58 posted on 03/27/2019 5:19:04 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: Revel

Assume for the sake of the discussion that all of the parties involved are as corrupt as they can be.

What we are left with is a circular firing squad of corrupt, incompetent liberals.

It will be interesting to see who takes out whom.


59 posted on 03/27/2019 5:31:30 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Revel

Jussie’s Justice - Trademark, copyright, and patent applied for.

The best justice money, power, and corruption can buy.


60 posted on 03/27/2019 5:33:53 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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