As for the Smollett pals testifying against him, they produced a $3,500 check Jussie had written them as advance payment, because the ringmaster of this flea circus was too dumb to understand that cash is the preferred payment method when doing stuff you don’t want others to find out about.
Using Instagram, Smollett advised the brothers that the attack, originally planned for 10 p.m., would have to be put off for a few hours because his flight out of LaGuardia would be delayed. (Right after “only use cash,” in the criminals’ catechism, the next line is, “Never assume a LaGuardia flight will be on time.”)
There's is also an oblique reference to Emily Ratajkowski. As I was unfamiliar, googling the name wasn't unpleasant.
Nobody was funnier than Jessie testifying. “I always take weed with me, (pause), but not today.”
I haven’t been following this closely. He wrote a check? Lololol.