Chicago Police say the two men being questioned in the alleged attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett are considered suspects.

Your smear atempt has failed my dear klucker.

Unless these two black Nigerian guys WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED who worked on Empire and are friends of Jussie Smollett are 'Trump Supporters' and yelled, "This is MAGA County," Jussie Smollett is A LIB LIAR and this is a Staged Fake Hate Crime/A HATE CRIME HOAX.

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Man arrested in Smollett attack convicted in 2011 stabbing, filed for bankruptcy

[chicago.suntimes.com]

The two men taken into custody in connection with the reported attack of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett were placed under arrest Friday, a Chicago police spokesman said.

The two men, ages 25 and 27, were still being questioned by detectives and had not been formally charged as of Friday afternoon, department spokesman Tom Ahern said.

Earlier in the day, Anthony Guglielmi, another police spokesman, said: “Detectives have probable cause that they may have been involved in an alleged crime, and we are working to corroborate the allegations and investigative timeline as our investigation continues.”

Detectives believe the men, both of whom are black, are the same people shown in a surveillance image released by police days after the purported attack, Guglielmi has said. The men allegedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs during the incident, which had been investigated as a possible hate crime police have said.

The men’s identities have not been released.

But a law enforcement source said the men are brothers, and at least one of them has worked on the show “Empire.” They are reportedly Nigerian, and had traveled to Nigeria the day of the attack before returning Wednesday, when they were arrested at O’Hare Airport, a source said.

2011 arrest for attempted murder

Court records show that one was charged with attempted murder in a 2011 stabbing that occurred in the 4200 block of North Ashland. That is less than a block from the home that police raided Wednesday night, and recovered personal effects including cell phones, a source said.

The one brother reached a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and was sentenced to two years of probation and was ordered to pay a $674 fine. His attorney in that case did not respond to interview requests.

Another attorney for the men, Gloria Schmidt, has told reporters the men knew Smollett.

“The have worked with him on ‘Empire,'” she told CBS2. “… They’re baffled why they are people of interest.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that police are investigating the possibility that the reported Jan. 29 attack was staged. However, on Friday Guglielmi again stressed that “there is also no evidence to say that this is a hoax.”

Smollett has told police that he was walking in the 300 block of East North Water Street about 2 a.m. when two people walked up to him, yelled the slurs, hit him in the face, poured a substance — suspected to be bleach — on him and put a “thin, light rope” around his neck.

The actor initially was “reluctant” to call police because of the attention he would generate as a public figure, Guglielmi previously said. But his manager eventually called at 2:42 a.m., about 40 minutes after the attack.

The actor said he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack. His manager has said that he could hear the attack over the phone and was able to hear the phrase “MAGA country” — the acronym from President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

Detectives allegedly traced the location of the men arrested through ride-hailing and taxi records from the area where Smollett said the attack happened, according to a law enforcement source. Police have video from a doorbell camera among other images of the men.

Court records show both men filed for bankruptcy in September 2016 and owed more than $120,000 in student loans.

At the time, neither man reported having a full time job. Their monthly incomes, they said were $160 and $142 that they earned from various odd jobs.

The two also started a party and decoration business in 2015 that they operated out of a South Side building owned by their parents, records show. Their parents did not respond to phone calls Friday.

The business was “operating at a loss” at the time of the filing and was dissolved in May 2018, court and state business records show.

One of the two men showed an interest in investing. He reported that he owned four shares of a pharmaceutical company, one share of Berkshire Hathaway and one share of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company. He valued the shares at $300 at the time, though a single share of Berkshire Hathaway was worth more than $200,000 at the time of the bankruptcy filing.

In 2017, one of the men co-founded a home remodeling company. In his bio on the company’s website, he says he has three degrees, including a master’s degree in business and a bachelor’s degree in management. The other company co-founder could not be reached Friday.

Thirteen days after he reported the attack, Smollett turned over “limited and redacted” phone records from that day to police, though investigators determined they were sufficient to conduct a criminal investigation.



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Because there's a Shortage of actual Hate Crimes, Hate Crime Hoaxes have proliferated!

The cute Ben Shapiro reporting on Jussie Smollet's Hate Hoax -

Smollett's Assault Accusations Don't Add Up

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The Daily Wire
Published on Feb 15, 2019

"Ben Shapiro explains why the alleged hate-crime case against Jussie Smollett doesn't hold water.

And this Video from Inside Edition clears up the connection of Jussie Smollett to the Two Nigerian Brothers who have been arrested in connection with the Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax.

Men Arrested in Jussie Smollett Alleged Attack

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The investigation into the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett is taking a turn with the arrests of two men. Abel Osundairo and his brother Ola have links to Smollett. They have appeared on his TV show, “Empire,” as bit actors. “Detectives have probable cause that they may have been involved in an alleged crime,” a police spokesman said.

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Oh, and it bears repeating -

There were no white MAGA hat Trump Supporters who attacked Jussie Smollett, only Jussie Smollett staging and faking his own Hate Crime. And the Lying Libs and Lying Fake News Lib Media jumping all over the Lib Lies.

Im done here wackado!

The suspects - two Nigerian brothers, 'persons of interest', who were arrested have now been released. They've given the cops new information, so now everyone is saying Jussie's in trouble.

Also, Jussie Smollett has now gotten himself a lawyer - gee, I wonder why if he's the 'victim'....

JUSSIE SMOLLETT
'Suspects' Lawyer ...
MY CLIENTS HAVE KEY EVIDENCE

[www.tmz.com]

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.

Fun watching the Lying Libs get caught out in their False Lib Narratives.

Jussie Smollett retains defense lawyer as Chicago police search his home

[www.americanthinker.com]

Jussie Smollett has lawyered up. After news spread that Chicago police were treating his report of a hate crime as a hoax, he has retained the council of notorious high-profile defense attorney Michael Monico. This lawyer has represented other notorious defendants like Michael Cohen and a Cabinet member under President G.W. Bush. He describes himself on his website as "the premier criminal defense attorney in the country." Mr. Monico specializes in "white collar, health care fraud, antitrust, public corruption, mail, wire and securities fraud, and foreign corrupt practices investigations throughout the United States and around the globe." Quite an ominous sign for a man clinging to his own victimhood to pick a criminal defense attorney.

Smollett has already purchased services from the P.R. firm Sunshine Sachs, which manages the legal scandals of other clients like Harvey Weinstein. The firm has taken over making public statements on its newest celebrity client's behalf. Most likely at its direction, he has scrubbed all of his social media accounts of any personal mention of the alleged incident.

Chicago police released the Nigerian brothers late Friday evening after dropping battery charges against them. The brothers, one of whom appeared as an extra on Jussie Smollett's television show, were picked up late Wednesday night when their flight landed at O'Hare airport. They were returning from their home country of Nigeria, which they had departed to hours after Jussie reported the "attack."

While the two were in police custody, law enforcement raided their house and took a list of items including five containers of bleach, computers, firearms, and a "red hat." The pair was officially arrested Friday morning, and investigators spent over 12 hours straight interrogating them. The Chicago Police Department released this official statement upon their release:

Due to new evidence as a result of today's interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released...and detectives have additional investigative work to complete.

This "additional investigative work" apparently sent the CPD to Jussie Smollett's residence, where they seized a container of bleach. It is unknown whether this was after a warrant was issued or Smollett willingly complied with their request after advice from his new counsel. Chicago police confirmed to Fox News that information that was discovered during the questioning of the Nigerian brothers prompted this search.

Jussie and law enforcement's actions are no longer disguised as Smollett being a victim of a hate crime. All signs are pointing toward a crumbling empire, arguably more exciting to watch than the TV drama he stars in.

Yup, even Lib Mainstream Media is now reporting that the Investigation is now about whether Jussie Smollett committed a Hate Crime Hoax --

So satisfying when Libs get caught lying through their a*s.

Probe into alleged Jussie Smollett attack shifts to whether actor staged incident, source says

The shift in investigation was reported a day after Chicago police said it was releasing two men questioned without charge, citing new evidence.

[www.nbcnews.com]

A police source familiar with the investigation into an alleged attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett tells NBC News the probe has shifted into whether the actor paid two men who were questioned in the case to stage an assault.

The Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, "We can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation. We've reached out to the Empire cast member's attorney to request a follow-up interview."

An email to an attorney reported to represent Smollett was not immediately answered.

Smollett filed a report with the Chicago Police Department on Jan. 29 stating that two masked men hurled racist and homophobic slurs before beating him. The actor also said his attackers poured what he thought was bleach over him and put a noose around his neck.

The police department had said it was investigating the alleged attack as a possible hate crime. Smollett is black and gay.

Friday night, police said they released the two men who had been questioned in the case without charge, and police said they are no longer considered suspects. Chicago police spokesman Guglielmi said when the men were released that it was "due to new evidence as a result of today's interrogations."

Some social media users began to cast doubt on Smollett's claims after police said they were not able to find footage of the alleged attack after going through a voluminous amount of recordings from the many surveillance cameras in the area.

Police also had said Smollett refused to turn over his phone and phone records for the investigation. The actor had told police he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack. Police have said, however, that Smollett was cooperating with the investigation, and later gave investigators a PDF file with partial phone records.

In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Thursday, Smollett said he was upset that some people questioned whether the attack occurred.

"It's like, you know, at first, it was a thing of, like, 'Listen, if I tell the truth then that's it, 'cause it's the truth,'" Smollett said. "Then it became a thing of like, 'Oh, how can you doubt that? Like, how do you — how do you not believe that? It's the truth.'"

"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, and that says a lot about the place we are in our country right now," he said.