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Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police claiming racist, homophobic attack
From NBC News:
“Embattled actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months’ probation Thursday for falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019.
‘You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,’ Cook County Circuit Judge James Linn told Smollett while announcing the sentence in Chicago.”
