Jussie Smollett pays 50,000 US dollars to charitable purposes to pay complaints about the costs of police investigations into his “hate crawl”

Jussie Smollett, the Rich The actor, who was accused of having orchestrated a hate criminal joke, has agreed to pay 50,000 US dollars for a charity in Chicago as part of a comparison of the costs for the investigation of his claims.

The black and gay actor claimed that two men had attacked him, in January 2019 in Chicago in Chicago a loop. Two years later, Smollett was convicted of lies to the police who were lying with allegations that he staged his own attack. While the Supreme Court of Illinois opened the decision, he has now agreed to pay a city for the charity in the amount of $ 50,000 in order to pay a lawsuit about the costs of the police investigation.

In April 2019, the city originally searched for 130,000 US dollars – the amount that was paid to the police for their 1,800 hours of overtime work, which results from its wrong statements. Smollett countered and insisted that the attack was not a joke.

Before that, he paid a fine of 10,000 US dollars and managed community service, as court documents show.

In exchange for the dismissal of the lawsuit, the actor now agreed to pay $ 50,000 for the establishment of a lighter futures center for the arts, an organization based in Chicago that “improves the quality of life for disadvantaged young people and their families by providing a safe, stable and funding experience, social, emotional, academic and professional development”.

The independent has turned to Smollett to get a comment.

“This payment adds the payment of 10,000 US dollars in the amount of 10,000 US dollars to the city in 2019 for a total amount of $ 60,000. Since the city was submitted, Smollett has suspended an additional accountability due to the appointment of a special prosecutor and subsequent criminal proceedings. About the law of Chicago.

Torri Hamilton, a lawyer from Smollett, told The independent In an explanation: “Jussie decided to end this saga by donating to a charity organization, concentrating on the performing arts and disadvantaged children in Chicago. Jussie has always loved the people in Chicago, and this lawsuit has been drawn for six years when he is already supporting a cause supported near one thing in his retrospect.

The parties had agreed last month, but the conditions of the agreement were only published on Thursday.

One month after the actor had made the claim for the attack, the then police superintendent by Chicago, Eddie Johnson, Smollett, “exploited the pain and anger of racism to promote his career”.

“This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn't deserve, and certainly doesn't deserve it,” said Johnson.

The city accused the actor, two Nigerian brothers, with whom he was “friends”, to have paid $ 3,500 to help him move the attack and orchestrate the attack on how the 2019 complaint is evident.

In February 2019, a brothers' lawyer published an explanation in which they “have enormous regret about their participation in this situation”.

The statement continued: “You understand how it influenced people across the country, especially minority communities and especially those who were victims of hate crimes themselves.”