Jussie Smollett
In January 2019, actor Jussie Smollett told police he had been the victim of a hate crime. His account of what happened that night has been disputed, resulting in a messy, public legal battle with the city of Chicago, and an indictment against Smollett on criminal charges in early 2020.
Retired Judge Sheila O’Brien has been barred from filing motions as the ongoing special prosecutor probe continues.
When Foxx dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett, that was more than — to quote your editorial — a “high profile” mistake.
The “Empire” actor has been charged again for allegedly faking a hate crime attack after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office dropped the charges.
The timing of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb’s new indictment of Smollett, five weeks before Election Day, couldn’t have been worse for Foxx.
As the Sun-Times wrote, “the police deserved better.”
During Foxx’s tenure, the guiding philosophy of the state’s attorney’s office has undergone a sea change — and it’s a change that must continue.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx joined former prosecutors Bill Conway and Donna More, and former 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti for an appearance before the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board Tuesday.
There seems to be little time for the victims the Cook County state’s attorney’s office serves every day.
Mayor accuses Team Smollett of trying to “shift the blame to somebody else” with a subpoena for records about the internal investigation that got former police Supt. Eddie Johnson fired.
The bodybuilding brothers’ lawyer says the actor “gained national and international fame” through the alleged attack.
The “Empire” actor, who is being sued by the city, wants info about a probe launched after the ex-Chicago Police superintendent was found asleep in a running vehicle.
A judge signed off on the warrant that seeks all of the actor’s emails, including drafts and deleted messages, his search history and even location data.
With a special prosecutor being appointed and now her hiring a law firm to defend her office, what is the running tab that we the taxpayers have paid out?
Kim Foxx’s office has retained Ruben Castillo and a team of other attorneys from Akerman LLP to aid the state’s attorney’s office as special prosecutor Dan Webb investigates, Crain’s Chicago Business reported Tuesday.
The actor sued for malicious prosecution last month.
A legal battle continues to brew between the former “Empire” actor and the City of Chicago.
In her campaign kickoff ad, Foxx acknowledged the case of actor Jussie Smollett could’ve been handled better. But she says she was talking about informing the public, not necessarily the specifics of the case.
The actor’s lawyers also say the city cannot recover costs because it already accepted $10,000 from Smollett ‘as payment in full.’
Foxx also blamed President Trump, the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Rifle Association for undercutting “progress” in Cook County in a two-minute kickoff ad.
A private dinner in Hollywood could illuminate dubious alliances for Chicago figures.
The city hopes to recover $130,106 for the police investigation it conducted earlier this year.
Special prosecutor investigating Jussie Smollett made $1,000 donation to Kim Foxx’s campaign in 2016
A hearing is scheduled for Friday in probe into “Empire” actor and state’s attorney’s office.
SNEED EXCLUSIVE: The ex-”Empire’’ actor’s latest court filing, while not admitting he staged the incident, pins the decision to spend so much time and resources investigating squarely on law enforcement.
But cops disagree and say that Smollett staged the racist and homophobic attack.
Finally, we have a state’s attorney who is committed to convicting the guilty and exonerating the innocent.
Webb will lead the investigation into the alleged hate crime hoax that Chicago police said was plotted by Jussie Smollett; Webb’s purview will include looking at how Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx handled the criminal charges against the now former “Empire” actor.
The city sued to force Jussie Smollett to pay $130,000 in police overtime and other expenses after state prosecutors dropped charges accusing him of filing a false report.
A judge is about to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Foxx, while the Democratic bosses of Cook County don’t need to hear what that probe might uncover.
Judge Michael Toomin seems likely to announce his pick to lead a probe of an alleged hoax hate crime and how Cook County prosecutors handled the decision to drop charges against the “Empire” actor.