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Former 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett to be sentenced in racist hoax attack

Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett will get one last chance to publicly admit to fabricating a 2019 hate-crime attack on himself before learning whether a judge sentences him to prison. Smollett, 39, is scheduled to appear Thursday afternoon in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago to hear his fate after a jury convicted him in December on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct stemming from him filing a false police report and lying to police, who spent more than $130,000 investigating his allegations. During his trial, the actor testified in his own defense, maintaining his story that two masked men wearing hats bearing former President Donald Trump's "MAGA" motto assaulted him on a street and put a noose around his neck. "There was no hoax," Smollett testified. Judge James Linn is allowing news cameras into Thursday's hearing, in which Smollett is expected to be granted an opportunity to speak. Several sup ....

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Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him

The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim. ....

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Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him

Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him
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Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him

The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim. ....

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