A newly released report finds prosecutors’ handling of the initial case against actor Jussie Smollett represented a 'major failure of operations.'
Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six counts after staging an attack on himself in 2019. This Q&A explains how we got here.including its major conclusions, in 2020. The full report released Monday documents interviews with Foxx, dozens of employees in her office, Chicago police officers and friends and family members of Smollett.
Foxx also said she believed prosecutors in her office “wanted to get this guy out of town” because of the media attention that accompanied the case. “The fact that such a significant mischaracterization could be asserted without sufficient vetting ... is unacceptable for an office that must be transparent and maintain public confidence,” Webb’s report states.