[RummyChick]

more details
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jussie-smollett-lawsuit-508458711.html

[SkyDancer]

Hope he pays every penny of that plus Foxx charged as well.

[Nateman]

I don't think Smollett acted alone. Some politicians , I suspect Max Maxine, put him up to this. This is Kabuki Theater to keep their hands unseen. Just part of the Left’s ongoing effort to make wearing a Trump hat a thought crime.

[struggle]

They’re going to make him pay for a piddling role somewhere else.

They can’t have THIS and the spy investigation going on at the same time in 2020.

[Crucial]

Smollett should have been inducted. The hate crime law movement is peaking even as hate crimes are disproportionately committed against whites and yet whites are more often charged with hate crimes. Also if you’re a black hate hoaxer, you get off. Is there anything fair or just in any of this. Doesn’t this sound like oppression with more to come.

[catnipman]

it’s patently unconstitutional for a police agency to invoice a person for an investigation that lead to zero criminal charges being brought to court ... should this actually become the norm, no one in this country will ever be safe from police persecution and harassment ...

[Beowulf9]

Smollet should be charged with a federal hate crime. He paid two men to rough up a gay, black man, based only on his race & sexual orientation.