CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office misled the public time and again while handling the Jussie Smollett investigation, according to a special prosecutor’s report released on Monday.
Smollett was convicted earlier this month of lying to Chicago Police about being attacked in January 2019, but Foxx’s office dropped the original charges in the case, raising serious questions and doubt from the public.
Five months after Foxx’s office dropped the initial charges against Smollett, without requiring him to admit any guilty, special prosecutor Dan Webb was tasked with taking over the case and reinvestigating both Smollett’s claims and Foxx’s handling of the case. Webb ultimately brought new charges against Smollett, and the actor was found guilty earlier this month of of charges he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself.
Webb also released a summary of his report on his investigation of Foxx’s handling of the case last summer, but needed Judge Michael Toomin’s permission to release the full 60-page report, because it contains grand jury information, which is typically kept confidential.
Toomin had declined Webb’s previous requests to release the full report, but after Smollett was convicted, Webb again asked Toomin to authorize the release of the full report. At a hearing on Monday,...
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