{"id":1104366,"date":"2021-12-09T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104366"},"modified":"2021-12-09T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:28:31","slug":"jussie-smollett-convicted-despite-best-efforts-of-former-michelle-obama-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jussie-smollett-convicted-despite-best-efforts-of-former-michelle-obama-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett Convicted Despite Best Efforts of Former Michelle Obama Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjussie-smollett-convicted-despite-best-efforts-of-former-michelle-obama-aide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TinaTchenresign2-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actor Jussie Smollett was convicted of five counts of felony disorderly conduct Thursday for faking a hate crime in Chicago, after former Michelle Obama aide Tina Tchen had urged Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx not to prosecute him.<\/p>\n<p>Tchen admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/03\/27\/jussie-smollett-investigation-ex-michelle-obama-aide-tina-tchen\/3294546002\/\">reaching out<\/a> to Foxx on behalf of an unnamed Smollett relative. Foxx, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/26\/george-soros-donated-408k-to-kim-foxx-prosecutor-who-let-jussie-smollett-walk\/\">received<\/a> over $400,000 from left-wing billionaire donor George Soros for her campaign in 2016, dropped the charges and later recused herself from the case.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A judge appointed a special prosecutor,&nbsp;Dan K. Webb, who later indicted Smollett and investigated Foxx\u2019s office. As the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> reported at the time: \u201cMr. Webb\u2019s office said that it unearthed evidence that supports \u2018substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures\u2019 by the state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office in prosecuting the initial case in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tchen would later be <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/biz\/news\/times-up-tina-tchen-ceo-1203361048\/\">appointed<\/a> chief executive officer of Time\u2019s Up, the organization attempting to drive sexual misconduct out of Hollywood. But she had to resign earlier this year after offering advice to then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he faced claims of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>As the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/08\/27\/ex-michelle-obama-chief-tina-tchen-resigns-from-times-up-over-her-role-in-cuomo-harassment-scandal\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.345971563981\">\n<p>The chief executive of the sexual harassment victims\u2019 advocacy group Time\u2019s Up resigned Thursday amid outrage over revelations that its leaders advised former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s administration after he was first accused of misconduct last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Tchen\u2019s resignation comes after the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/roberta-kaplan-times-up-resigns-f549dee46459e588797e1199376d632b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Aug. 9 departure of the organization\u2019s chair, Roberta Kaplan.<\/a>&nbsp;Both women had been the target of ire from Time\u2019s Up supporters over the idea they had offered any help to Cuomo, who resigned Monday, three weeks after an investigation overseen by New York\u2019s attorney general&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/andrew-cuomo-investigation-sexual-harassment-04b0e7ba80db368124a5e9c9bcf4dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">concluded he sexually harassed at least 11 women.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Smollett also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/columns\/john-kass\/ct-met-jussie-smollett-obama-kass-20190430-story.html\">received<\/a> a White House \u201cshout-out\u201d from then-President Barack Obama in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jussie Smollett was convicted of five counts of felony disorderly conduct Thursday for faking a hate crime in Chicago, after former Michelle Obama aide Tina Tchen had urged Cook &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}