[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Jussie Smollett paid two brothers to stage an attack against him, directed them to buy items used in the alleged assault and actually rehearsed it with them, sources say.
Sources say at least one of the brothers bought the rope used in the incident at Smollett’s request. The sources also say the "Empire" actor paid for the rope, which was purchased at the Crafty Beaver Hardware Store in the Ravenswood neighborhood the weekend of Jan. 25.
The brothers, who were questioned by police this week before being released, were paid $3,500 before leaving for Nigeria and were promised an additional $500 upon their return.
They left for Nigeria later in the day on Jan. 29, after the attack.
Sources said one of the brothers held the rope and poured bleach while the other wore a plain red hat and yelled slurs at Smollett.
The sources say the red hat was bought at an Uptown beauty supply store and that the attack was supposed to happen before Jan. 29. The brothers told detectives the three men rehearsed the attack days prior to it happening.
Smollett claims two men attacked him in Streeterville early Jan. 29 as he was heading to his apartment. He said they yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him, poured a chemical on him and put a rope around his neck.
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18 months in jail sounds about right
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The brothers told detectives the three men rehearsed the attack days prior to it happening.
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His new Atty Monico is gone: "According to Fox 32 news reporter Rafer Weigel, lawyer Michael Monico is no longer representing Jussie Smollett after a disagreement occurred about the decision to release a statement this past Saturday night. Weigel said Smollett is now being represented by Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson, two attorneys from Chicago.
Along with that, representatives for Jussie Smollett said Michael Monico was never repping the actor from the beginning. However, Monico spoke to Fox News and reportedly told them he was representing Smollett, but now that is no longer the case.
Since then, CBS reporter Charlie De Mar noted that Smollett’s management team acquired the service of Anne Kavanagh, whose firm offers crisis management."
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Per TMZ:
"The sources say there were red flags from the get-go. Cops were extremely suspicious when Jussie took them out to the area where he said he was attacked and pointed to an obscure camera saying how happy he was that the attack was on video. Turns out the camera was pointing in the wrong direction. Cops thought it was weird he knew the location of that camera.
And, there's this. We're told investigators didn't believe the 2 alleged attackers screamed, "This is MAGA country," because, "Not a single Trump supporter watches 'Empire.'""
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Now that this has been established as a hoax (yes, you are as surprised as I am), we can move on to the next phase:
Amnesty for Jussie because prosecuting him will only serve to deter non-fakey victims from coming forward. Assuming we ever get non-fakey victims.
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Shamelessly stolen from the Howie Carr Show's Chump Line segment - "Jussie Smollett is proof that, if you give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself."
It's that bad.
[PageSix] The Rev. Al Sharpton believes Jussie Smollett should face "accountability to the maximum" ‐ if it’s found that he made up the hate attack against him.
The outspoken civil rights leader addressed recent reports that the alleged assault on the black, openly gay "Empire" actor may have been staged with two bodybuilding brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo.
"I, among many others when hearing of the report, said that the reports were horrific and that we should come with all that we can come with in law enforcement to find out what happened and the guilty should suffer the maximum," Sharpton said Sunday night on his show "PoliticsNation" on MSNBC.
"I still maintain that," he continued. "And if it is that Smollett and these gentlemen did in some way perpetuate something that is not true, they ought to face accountability to the maximum."
When news of the Jan. 29 attack against Smollett broke, Sharpton immediately spoke out to say he was "outraged."
"For Jussie, who’s not only a superb actor and singer but an activist who has fought against homophobia and racism and sexism, to be a victim is something that is totally unacceptable," he told TMZ last month. "I challenge the Chicago law enforcement to do all within their power to find out those that are guilty and they should face the maximum penalty of law."
Sharpton is no stranger to racially charged hoax cases. In the late 1980s, the then-firebrand local political activist served as the spokesman for Tawana Brawley, a black 15-year-old who claimed she had been raped by six white men upstate. They scrawled racial epithets on her chest and smeared feces in her hair, she alleged.
The stunning case eventually went before a grand jury ‐ which ruled after seven months that Brawley’s story was a total fabrication.
Chicago police said this weekend that their interviews of the Osundairo brothers ‐ who were arrested on Wednesday but released two days later without charges ‐ "shifted the trajectory" of their ongoing investigation.
The latest twist in the case comes as reports emerged that Smollett paid the budding actor-models $3,500 to stage the 2 a.m. attack.
Smollett has maintained that two strangers shouted racist and anti-gay slurs and "This is MAGA country!" before dousing him in a "chemical substance," likely bleach, and throwing a noose around his neck.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that the Government's priority is the stabilization of the economy, peace, sovereignty and political stability
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[UPI] China has closed the Tibetan entrance to Mount Everest indefinitely because of mounting garbage that's been left on the world's tallest mountain.
Chinese officials said although the entrance is closed, tourists can still visit the Rongpo monastery area at 16,400 feet above sea level. Only those with climber permits, however, will be allowed to go to the base camp about 600 feet higher, and beyond.
"The key area [of the reserve] will be closed for tourism for an indefinite period, mainly for ecological conservation," tourism official Tang Wu said Wednesday.
News of the decision, which officials reached last month, did not get much attention until this week. Everest now being "conquered" by nuevo-explorers - not that I would survive it, mind you. What approaches commonplace astounds me.
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Chinese probably wouldn't like homeless encampments either.
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a good percentage of tourist hikers leave an incredible amount of trash wherever they go. We see loose trash right next to bear-proof bins, almost as if the lids were too heavy or something (or they couldn't figure out the latching system).
Can't imagine what the 'entitled' folks, used to having their moms or nannies pick up after them, would leave.
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I read something over ten years ago that, back then, trash and sewage were becoming a real problem.
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^ Pshaw. Been there many times and cherish fond memories of the cozy little cantina where I once met a funny native fellow with a grotesque red nose who provided me with invaluable information regarding a beaten-down mining stock... oh... did you say Rombok? Never mind.
LONDON (Reuters) - A Spanish warship tried to order commercial shipping to leave anchorages in British waters near Gibraltar but was challenged by the British navy and sailed away, Gibraltar said.
The Spanish ship tried to order ships to leave their anchorages on the eastern side of the Rock but the ships stayed in position.
The British navy challenged the Spanish warship which then sailed slowly along the coast with its weapons uncovered and manned, Gibraltar said.
"There is only nuisance value to these foolish games being played by those who don’t accept unimpeachable British sovereignty over the waters around Gibraltar," a spokesman for Gibraltar said.
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That Spanish fleet looks awfully impressive on the bottom of the sea.
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The Spanish and the Italians actually have some of the best frigate sized boats (which is what it looks like) going right now.
Certainly better the the clown show LCS we've got.
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[DAWN] India's first semi-high speed train broke down on Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service.
The Vande Bharat Express touted as India's fastest train and built under the Modi government's flagship "Make in India" programme, made its first journey on Friday from New Delhi to the Hindu holy city of Varanasi.
But on its return to the capital the next day a collision with a cow disrupted electricity supply to four carriages and damaged the brake system, according to Indian Railways.
"The train later experienced technical issues and was stranded on the way to Delhi," Indian Railways spokeswoman Smita Vats Sharma told AFP.
The train reached the capital "safely" ahead of its first commercial journey on Sunday, she added.
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Bovine related rail accidents will become history in the new AOC world.
[DAWN] The president of Gadani ship-breaking workers union, Babu Karim Jan, died under mysterious circumstances in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Sunday morning, soon after being incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by police from his residence in Metroville, located in the city's SITE area.
Police claimed that Jan, who was in his late 60s, was wanted in two attempted murder cases and died after suffering a "heart attack".
According to the dear departed's relatives, Iqbal Market police conducted a raid in Metroville at around 1:30am and detained Karim Jan and his son, Amin.
They allegedly dragged and threw him into the police mobile where he died under mysterious circumstances. Later on, the police abandoned his body there and tried to disappear when the residents of the area gathered and made videos of the vehicle which were then shared on social media.
The dear departed’s son, Amin, told media that when the police conducted a raid on their home, he informed the police that his father was a heart patient, but they allegedly did not pay heed to his request.
"They (the police) dragged him and threw him into the mobile," the son alleged.
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[Tass] Tests of a small-sized nuclear power plant for the "Petrel" cruise missile were successfully completed in Russia. This was reported by TASS source in the domestic rocket industry.
"In January, at one of the landfills, the most important stage of testing the cruise subsonic Burevestnik missile, the testing of a nuclear power plant, was successfully completed," the agency’s source said.
According to him, the tests confirmed the declared characteristics of the reactor, providing an unlimited range of the missile. "
TASS does not have official confirmation provided by the source of information.
In March 2018, in a message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia developed a small-sized nuclear power plant that can be used in a cruise missile, due to which it will receive a virtually unlimited range. As Putin noted, the rocket will be low-flying, unobtrusive, with an unpredictable flight path and will receive a nuclear warhead. According to the results of the vote on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the rocket was named the Petrel.
The U.S. intelligence community quickly disputed that claim. According to reports leaked to the press, the Pentagon believes that after a test in November the missile flew for just a few minutes before crashing into the sea. Several other tests also ended in failure.
Essentially, Russia has an untestable missile because, as the US found out in the 1960's, to test it means contaminating a large part of your country or the waters surrounding it. Another of Putin's propaganda "V Weapons".
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^^^^
Grom, don't let AOC hear you or off to re-education camp for you!
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Grom, don't let AOC hear you or off to re-education camp for you!
He'd be head of the education department within the first 30 days. There would be no discipline problems and he would see to it that the curriculum provided an eventual pathway to success for the internees.
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He'd be head of the education department within the first 30 days. There would be no discipline problems and he would see to it that the curriculum provided an eventual pathway to success for the internees.
Certainly that’s what the camp overseers would be allowed to see. But success has an infinite number of definitions, all dependent on who is defining it.
Underneath, the inmates would all have pooled their various expertises to form escape and sabotage projects — especially sabotage to be executed both within the camp and beyond it, to include those believed to have been turned to AOC’s cause. They would look to the example of the Haganah back in the old days, and of certain Nazi concentration camp populations, the Warsaw Ghetto, and so forth. All it takes is a leader with a certain set of knowledge and skills to set the ball rolling.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Jussie Smollett paid two brothers to stage an attack against him, directed them to buy items used in the alleged assault and actually rehearsed it with them, sources say.
[DAWN] India's first semi-high speed train broke down on Saturday after colliding with a cow on the tracks, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new passenger service.
