'Suspects' Lawyer ... My Clients Have Key Evidence https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/16/jussie-smollett-suspects-lawyer-attack-release/ The lawyer for the 2 men who were arrested and then released in connection with the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett says the new evidence that has changed this case is something her clients told cops. Attorney Gloria Schmidt was at the Chicago police station Friday night, after her clients, Ola and Abel Osundairo, were released from custody. Schmidt said the "new evidence" that triggered the release of her clients was something they knew and presumably told cops. Our photog asked Schmidt flat out if the "attack" was staged, and she answered obliquely, saying there were moving parts and she didn't want to speculate. As we reported, Ola and Abel both worked on "Empire," and Abel was especially friendly with Jussie. And, something else interesting ... she wouldn't answer why her clients went to Nigeria the day of the alleged attack, but added it was a "great question." She said she didn't want to speak for her clients because they had a story to tell "when the time is right." That clearly sounds like they have inside information about what went down at Jussie's apartment building.
New information in Jussie Smollett investigation 'could change the story entirely,' police say https://abcnews.go.com/US/informati...igation-change-story-police/story?id=61117628 After interrogating and releasing two men seen in surveillance video near the scene of the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, Chicago police are saying that the new information they have “could change the story entirely.” The two men, confirmed by police as those seen in surveillance images from the night of the alleged incident, were arrested on Wednesday night and interviewed by detectives in the following days. Initially, the two men were considered potential suspects because they admitted to police that they were at the scene, that they were the men in the images and because police had probable cause they could be the attackers. Based on the video evidence that police discovered, it did not indicate anyone else was there at the scene of the alleged incident, police say. But on Saturday, after their release the night before, police were only considering them to be persons of interest, saying that they may still have information that is helpful to the investigation. In the early morning hours of Jan. 29, Smollett reported that he was walking outside when he was attacked by two men. The attackers shouted racist and homophobic slurs before hitting him, pouring “an unknown chemical substance” on him — possibly bleach — and wrapping a rope around his neck, he told detectives. Police confirmed phone records show that during the attack, Smollett was on the phone with Brandon Moore, his music manager. Both claim that the alleged attackers yelled "MAGA country." While police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Saturday that he could not speak on what the new information was, he said that the break from detectives has “shifted the trajectory” of the investigation. Though he did not say whether Smollett spoke to the men that night — one of them had previously appeared on “Empire” — he said it will also be central to the investigation whether they spoke to or saw Smollett. Police raided the home of the two men on Wednesday night to search for possible evidence and retrieved shoes, electronic devices, bleach and a red hat, among other items, according to photos of an inventory log confirmed to ABC News. The inventory log, first reported by a local CBS station, also contained a description for an item saying "Script-Empire." It’s unclear whether forensic results have come back on any of the seized items on the inventory log. Police could not confirm that the two men, U.S. citizens of Nigerian descent, are brothers, but told ABC News that they believed as much. They also said that the two “have a relationship with [Jussie].” They did not name the men, saying they're not doing so because they weren’t being criminally charged.
Jussie Smollett hires Michael Cohen’s prison protection lawyer https://danilfineman.com/jussie-smollett-hires-michael-cohens-criminal-defense-lawyer/ Jussie Smollett has employed Michael Cohen’s prison protection lawyer, the lawyer confirmed this week, amid the deepening thriller of the “Empire” actor’s declare that he was the sufferer of a hate assault. “Sure, in the mean time, I’m,” Michael Monico, a former federal prosecutor in Illinois’ Northern District, instructed WGN’s “The Roe Conn Present” on Thursday. Monico didn’t say how lengthy he’s been representing Smollett, or in what capability. Cohen, President Trump’s former private lawyer, employed Monico to his protection crew final month to symbolize him as he faces federal charges that he violated marketing campaign finance legal guidelines and lied to Congress. The brazenly homosexual actor claims he was ambushed in on Jan. 29 as he was strolling residence via Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. He says his masked assailants tied a noose round his neck, poured bleach on him and yelled homophobic slurs and “MAGA nation!” Police arrested two “Empire” extras, brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo, in reference to the alleged assault Friday, however launched them later within the day. Cops additionally raided their Chicago-area condo and confiscated bleach and a black face masks. Police confirmed Saturday the brothers were present at the scene of the assault and offered new proof that “is now central to the investigation,” with out offering particulars
Yep... CNN -- along with most of the other left-wing media outlets -- that spent hours of airtime going over the original allegations are for the most part silent on the new facts. Or at most they simply issue half-heated weasel-worded follow-ups on their websites.
THey should be just as pissed off at the fraud of it as they were at the attack itself when they thought it was real..
Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/16/entertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html
Excerpt: Smollett gave his first detailed account of what he says was a hate crime against him, and the aftermath, in an interview with "Good Morning America" that aired Thursday. During the interview he expressed frustration at not being believed. "It feels like if I had said it was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black I feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot much more," Smollett said. "And that says a lot about the place where we are as a country right now."
The amusing part is while most local Chicago news outlets are focusing their coverage on the latest details that Smollett staged the entire thing — while CNN is simply leaning into their left wing agenda. CNN provided no new on-air coverage of the police assertions that Smollett staged the incident; their only online article is in their entertainment section and not on their front page headlines. And of course their well hidden article talks out of both sides of their mouth— trying to portray doubt on the staging by digging up several day old quotes from the police chief (no longer relevant) and Smollett (playing the LGBQT victim).