{"id":4876,"date":"2019-04-08T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2019-04-08T03:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:01:21","slug":"chicago-sues-smollett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/chicago-sues-smollett\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sues Smollett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a more recent scandal,&nbsp;<strong>Jussie Smollett<\/strong>\u2019s troubles are far from over.&nbsp; The Mayor&nbsp;<strong>Rahm Emanuel&nbsp;<\/strong>made good on his promise to sue the actor for $130,000.&nbsp; \u201cMr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the&nbsp;<em>City of&nbsp;<\/em><em>Chicago<\/em>&nbsp;for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, 2019.&nbsp; The Law Department is now drafting a civil complaint that will be filed in the&nbsp;<em>Circuit<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Court<\/em>&nbsp;of Cook County.&nbsp; Once it is filed, the Law Department will send a courtesy copy of the complaint to Mr. Smollett\u2019s LA based legal team.\u201d&nbsp; For his part, Smollett has gotten more brazen and is sinking his heels in deeper to defend his innocence.&nbsp; He had his legal eagle&nbsp;<strong>Mark Geragos&nbsp;<\/strong>draft a letter, stating that his client \u201cwould not be intimidated\u201d.&nbsp; He then threatened to call Emanuel and Police Superintendent&nbsp;<strong>Eddie Johnson&nbsp;<\/strong>to testify \u2013 something I don\u2019t believe either of them would mind.&nbsp; We\u2019re not sure if Jussie would be quite so eager, since Geragos ends his statement by saying, \u201cMr. Smollett\u2019s preference remains, however, that this matter be closed and that he be allowed to move on with his life.\u201d&nbsp; My preference would be that I be allowed to sleep with Jussie\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;brothers, but that ain\u2019t happening either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a more recent scandal,&nbsp;Jussie Smollett\u2019s troubles are far from over.&nbsp; The Mayor&nbsp;Rahm Emanuel&nbsp;made good on his promise to sue the actor for $130,000.&nbsp; \u201cMr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the&nbsp;City of&nbsp;Chicago&nbsp;for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, 2019.&nbsp; The Law Department is now drafting a civil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}