Filing a false police report in Illinois is technically referred to as disorderly conduct and can be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony. In Mr. Smollett’s case, the police said the grand jury had decided on a felony count, which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/arts/television/jussie-smollett-attack-suspect.html

I wonder how many shots of the strongest liquor in the liquor cabinet was required for them to dream that plan up?

If he thought it was going to get him noticed, he will get noticed but for all the wrong reasons. Just... WTF!

The other way around version.

I am not emotionally invested in this dumbasses fate!

A lot of good people were coming to his defense, and all along, he knew it was based on a lie. What a selfish man! And every legitimate hate crime will initially get the side eyes because of this douche!

I think it is safe to say that someone could end up dead because of what he did. A gay African American man brutally attacked by two White racists. The problem is that real racists and homophobes will see his lie as justification for them carrying out violent attacks. I am hoping that he gets the maximum sentence because a lenient sentence sends the wrong message.

a hate attack, there's enough real one's without faking them!

Pretty sure if I had been indicted for a felony, that I would have been in custody within the hour. Celebrity has its privileges. Smh.

He's been an actor since he was 9 years old. He's worked consistently. He's on a hit show. No, he wasn't a household name, but to be able to make a living, any living, as an actor means he was doing better than 90% of other SAG members. He could have been grateful for his good fortune, but instead, he must have been thinking "Why am I not a STAR, making millions of dollars?" WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!! He had a decent career. It's over.

Given that the show is on 40+ weeks a year, that is not trivia money for an actor. Not top shelf money, but certainly a good living.

But he's been on all 75. If he gets $100K per episode, that's $7.5 Million, just for that show. Sure, agents and managers take their cut and he has to pay pretty high income taxes, but he should have been able to sock some $$$ away. His net worth is only estimated to be $500K. That's really low for his income. He must live pretty large.

Thanks for correcting me on the number of episodes per year, I am not a big entertainment consumer. Sounds like my per episode amount was way large, or he was spendthrifty.

I based my per episode amount on the show The Big Bang Theory. There was a tiff last year where the 2 or 3 second line actresses were making only $200,000 per episode and were demanding a raise. The principles of the show were making around $800,000 per episode, with Jim Parsons making more than that. Academic now that Parsons wanted out and the show will shutdown.

I lost interest a couple of years ago and haven't watched it this year at all. If I'm not mistaken, the top 5 stars took pay cuts so that Mayim Bialick and Melissa Rauch could get raises for the last 2 seasons. Their roles had grown considerably from when they first started on the show but they were still getting ONLY $200K per episode. Now they're up to $450K per episode. As big as those paychecks are though, BBT brings in a cool BILLION for CBS every year. I guarantee Empire isn't pulling that kind of dough for Fox.

But it remains on tv, which means it is pulling in a lot. Realize that hit tv shows dictate a lot of other revenue for the network, add revenue, marketing campaign revenue. Hit shows also give birth to spinoffs, some of which become big revenue producers.

Like I said, I am not a big entertainment consumer, nor do I have expertise in the outcomes of tv show ratings. So I have no feel about how much a show must bring in to avoid cancellation. But ask me about chemical mixtures and how to price them and I can put the ball in play .

to pull off something like this, so a suicide watch is probably a very good idea.

Apparently,when he was pulled over for DUI in 2007, he told the cops that he was his brother Jake.

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Assuming he is guilty of what he's charged with (seems likely), I find it hard to understand why he would do it at all. I also find it hard to understand why he would do it in such a sloppy and flawed way. I'm not saying I wish he was smarter and got away with it, but rather just confused how someone who has been around as long as he has didn't understand how strange his story would sound or not understand that they would be able to track down the information they found. There were at least three people in involved. You'd think at least one of them would have realized the plot wasn't all that well thought out.

There were too many weird details, not the least of which is that he didn’t even drop his sandwich.

Two allegedly white, MAGA supporters just happening to encounter him in 0 degree temperatures, recognize him from a TV show and know he is gay and then attack him with bleach and a noose at 2am in Chicago? He really couldn't have scripted it anymore outlandish.

This guy has done more hard to our cause that most realize. It confirms everything Trumpians falsely claim - fake news, anti gay, anti black etc. I say lock him up.

Word is from the brothers' testimony that he staged the attack because he was upset the threatening letters sent to the Empire set through the US Mail didn't get much media attention. The USPS and FBI are currently investigating, lying to federal investigators would be an additional felony as well.

Because that's what I heard.