Chicago officials, incensed by prosecutors’ abrupt and largely unexplained decision to drop all charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett, plan to slap the actor with a “bill” for the cost of the investigation, authorities said Thursday.
“The City of Chicago will be sending Mr. Smollett a bill,” said Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
“From a 30,000-foot view, the bill will include the hours, the overtime, the financial costs and the resources that were used” in probing what the Windy City’s cops, mayor and even prosecutors still believe was a hoax, Guglielmi said.
And that tally won’t even touch on outside resources Chicago cops called in to crack the firestorm case.
“It was an extensive investigation that required a lot of review of cameras. There was technical assistance provided by external agencies, but it’ll likely only include Chicago expenses and not expenses incurred by the FBI and other technical experts we brought in for analysis,” Guglielmi said, adding that the city Law Department is crunching the numbers.
Officials could not immediately provide an approximate cost or timeline for when the bill will come due.
Smollett, who is black and gay, claimed in January that he was attacked by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs.
Cops eventually concluded that Smollett, 36, had paid two acquaintances to stage the attack to boost his profile, and prosecutors indicted the actor on 16 felony counts.
But the case was dropped with little explanation on Tuesday, a decision slammed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a “whitewash of justice” that’s now the subject of its own FBI probe.
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/28/chicago-police-to-bill-jussie-smollett-for-cost-of-hate-crime-probe/
2019-03-28 17:04:00Z
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