Chicago police to bill Jussie Smollett for cost of hate crime probe
Page Six ^ | March 28, 2019 | 1:04pm | Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis
Posted on 3/28/2019, 4:26:57 PM by
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.
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