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Chicago Police: Jussie Smollett alleged hoax letter case handed over to FBI
Fox News ^ | 3/26/19 | Matt Richardson

Posted on 03/26/2019 8:28:09 PM PDT by Revel

Despite the hate crime hoax charges against him being stunningly dropped on Tuesday, “Empire” star Jussie Smollett may not be out of the woods just yet.

An investigation into a death threat letter the actor supposedly received prior to the alleged Jan. 29 attack has been handed over to the FBI, Chicago Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News.

Smollett initially had been suspected as the source of the letter.

“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is working closely with our law enforcement partners on this investigation,” the U.S. Postal Service said in a statement to Fox News. “We are unable to provide any additional comment at this time.”

Chicago cops previously said Smollett allegedly resorted to staging the "bogus" attack after the threatening letter he sent himself at his Chicago Fox studio two weeks earlier didn't garner enough attention.

"If he mailed that threatening letter to himself by using the post office, he engaged in postal fraud. That's five to 10 years in jail — that's three times what he's facing for filing a false report if the feds want to go there," Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 1; chicago; empire; fbi; fbismollett; georgesoros; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; smollett; smollettfbi; smollettletter; trumpdoj; usdied
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To: GOPJ

No- That is called Obama connections.


21 posted on 03/26/2019 9:00:36 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel
Too bad Jussie enjoys that sort of thing...


22 posted on 03/26/2019 9:04:20 PM PDT by montag813 ("This is Montag, Block 813...")
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To: Revel

Is that the FBI office in Chicago? I recall how good the one was in Boston.


23 posted on 03/26/2019 9:07:28 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: NoLibZone

Chicago Police are fit to be tied. They had an airtight case... until the Obamas made a few phone calls and got the case tossed

Smolett had the right connections. That’s why he walked.

Most of us would be facing hard time with 16 felonies. Justice is a bitch.

Just ask Kim Foxxx who unrecused herself to get Smolett off the hook.


24 posted on 03/26/2019 9:07:47 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: vette6387
"Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said."

And we know how accurate he is.

/sarcasm

25 posted on 03/26/2019 9:10:23 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Revel

The Federal Bureau of protecting Democrats.


26 posted on 03/26/2019 9:10:31 PM PDT by heights
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To: heights

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the DOJ to have him indicted.

Its over.


27 posted on 03/26/2019 9:12:11 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Cboldt

“It’s not a federal offense to mail a hoax threat to yourself.”

He mailed it, all with Powder, to his place of work.


28 posted on 03/26/2019 9:12:27 PM PDT by heights
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To: mass55th

“”Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said.”
And we know how accurate he is.”

Quite true! That said, in this instance, he’s only reciting the penalties for mail fraud. That doesn’t require any “legal judgement!” You can look it up in the Fed Statutes.


29 posted on 03/26/2019 9:15:18 PM PDT by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: Cboldt

The powder elevates it to a terrorism hoax.


30 posted on 03/26/2019 9:15:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: heights

“It’s not a federal offense to mail a hoax threat to yourself.”

Oh yes it is, if it’s used to develop a criminal act!


31 posted on 03/26/2019 9:17:24 PM PDT by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: Enterprise

Yup, pretty simple.


32 posted on 03/26/2019 9:17:42 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: vette6387

FBI will lose the letter, #2weeks.


33 posted on 03/26/2019 9:22:15 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Revel

It’s still the FBI of the Kenyanesian Usurper, so nothing will happen.


34 posted on 03/26/2019 9:26:58 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Revel

The Chicago police department should give that activist AG one week to put this back into their hands or they will strike.


35 posted on 03/26/2019 9:27:08 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1098985879853563905/video/1

seriously funny, and probably about how it really happened


36 posted on 03/26/2019 9:27:29 PM PDT by algore
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To: Enterprise

Skip the FBI...just hand it to Postal Inspectors. They are trained and do this type of work all the time. Once they determine a crime took place and have the supporting evidence lined up....let the federal justice system work. I’d tell Smollett you have one single chance to get a single-year sentence out of this...just come clean and admit it all. If not....prosecute for four years minimum in prison.


37 posted on 03/26/2019 9:30:28 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Revel

Transferring the case from Chicago/Illinois over to the FBI is not necessarily good news for Jussie. However, it is good news for the left. Now they will be able to concoct a meme of the FBI (ie. Trump) oppressing the gay black guy. The optics of the black Chicago police chief condemning Jussie were horrible for the left. The optics of having Trump as Jussie’s oppressor is exactly what the left wants.


38 posted on 03/26/2019 9:31:50 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: Bigtigermike
He and his lawyers will whine that ‘Trump and his people’ are after him

Yes he will, and also play the race card, and that other card, which you know about, and he might win.👎

39 posted on 03/26/2019 9:41:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (What, exactly, was the “only evil continually,” that was going on in the days of Noah?)
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To: Revel
I think that the powder kicks it up another level.

Yes, that isn't something that will be erased by a flick of the mighty 0bama hand. That's serious federal time.

40 posted on 03/26/2019 9:41:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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