Western Journal

Jussie Smollett is Not Out of the Woods Yet

March 27, 2019

2 min read

Jussie Smollett is Not Out of the Woods Yet There may yet be more twists and turns to the case of Jussie Smollett, which has transfixed the nation ever since Smollett first dropped the bombshell claim that he was assaulted on a Chicago street in late January. Charges filed against Smollett last month for allegedly fabricating the incident were dropped Tuesday, even though a state prosecutor said that officials believe Smollett staged the attack himself.  More below video…The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service have been investigating Smollett, according to ABC. The focus of that investigation is a letter that was mailed to Smollett at the Chicago office used for the filming of the show “Empire,” in which Smollett has starred. As noted by the New York Post’s Page Six, the letter said, “You will die black f-g” and had a stick figure drawing of a person hanging from a tree. The two federal agencies have been investigating whether Smollett had a role in mailing the letter. ABC reported that the federal probe is not affected by the decision to drop local charges against Smollett. On Tuesday, Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained why mailing the letter could be a federal offense. “If he mailed that threatening letter to himself by using the post office, he engaged in postal fraud. That’s five to 10 years in jail — that’s three times what he’s facing for filing a false report if the feds want to go there,” Napolitano said