{"id":1134559,"date":"2021-12-20T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1134559"},"modified":"2021-12-20T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:19:52","slug":"special-prosecutor-releases-full-report-on-investigation-of-soros-backed-prosecutor-in-jussie-smollett-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-prosecutor-releases-full-report-on-investigation-of-soros-backed-prosecutor-in-jussie-smollett-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Prosecutor Releases Full Report on Investigation of Soros-Backed Prosecutor in Jussie Smollett Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fspecial-prosecutor-releases-full-report-on-investigation-of-soros-backed-prosecutor-in-jussie-smollett-case%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=1134559&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\/KimfoxxSmollett1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb released its full 60-page \u201csummary report\u201d Monday afternoon of its investigation into the office of Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx over her improper handling of the Jussie Smollett case in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Smollett was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/09\/jussie-smollett-found-guilty-in-hate-crime-hoax-trial\/\">convicted<\/a> earlier this month on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct, relating to faking a hate racist and homophobic crime in 2019, blaming it on Trump supporters, and falsely reporting it to the Chicago Police Department.<\/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>Foxx, who was one of several left-wing prosecutors backed by billionaire Democrat donor George Soros in his effort to push \u201ccriminal justice reform\u201d across the country, initially dropped criminal charges against Smollett, provoking public outrage.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/09\/jussie-smollett-convicted-despite-best-efforts-of-former-michelle-obama-aide\/\">suspicion<\/a> of political interference, after Tina Tchen, a former aide to First Lady Michelle Obama, reached out to the prosecution on behalf of the Smollett family.&nbsp;Judge Michael Toomin ordered a special prosecutor to intervene, both to take up the Smollett case and to investigate Foxx and her subordinates at the Cook County State Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a 12-page <a href=\"https:\/\/d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net\/static\/2021\/06\/081720-wls-webb-smollett-pdf.pdf\">summary<\/a> of the summary was released, in which Webb revealed that while there were abuses of discretion and possible ethical breaches by Foxx and her office, especially in misleading the public about key facts like Smollett\u2019s past criminal record, there had been no criminal violations and Tchen\u2019s intervention had not been decisive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/sites\/default\/files\/article\/file-attachments\/DOC122021-12202021122848_0.pdf\">full 60-page summary<\/a> provides the evidentiary basis for the shorter 12-page version. It includes details of interviews with Foxx and Tchen, as well as others involved, and refers to text messages and other bases for the report\u2019s conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the additional details include confirmation of earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2019\/03\/26\/report-chicago-police-superintendent-furious-jussie-smollett-charges-dropped\/\">reports<\/a> that Foxx\u2019s office declined to notify Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson that it was dropping charges against Smollett. Johnson had been vocal in public about his disgust with Smollett\u2019s evident attempt to fake a hate crime, wasting resources and diminishing real racism.<\/p>\n<p>The full report also provides further detail about Foxx\u2019s false statements that Smollett had no prior criminal record \u2014 when, as the 12-page report said, \u201ca prior misdemeanor conviction out of California from September 22, 2007 for DUI, driving without a license, and giving false information to the police, for which he was placed on 24 months of probation.\u201d The full 60-page report adds that false statements about Smollett\u2019s record were \u201cparticularly troubling\u201d because his prior conviction \u201crelated, in part, to making a false statement to police,\u201d and was therefore similar to the present case in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-released report also delves into the question of Foxx\u2019s false statements to the public that the evidence was too weak to convict Smollett \u2014 after she had said the opposite just days before, confusing everyone and raising suspicions.<\/p>\n<p>The full report does not explain why Foxx dropped charges against Smollett, even though it found that she lied about when she stopped talking to Smollett\u2019s family and continued to receive updates about the case after she had recused herself from it.<\/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>The office of Special Prosecutor Dan Webb released its full 60-page \u201csummary report\u201d Monday afternoon of its investigation into the office of Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx over her &#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-1134559","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\/1134559","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=1134559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134559\/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=1134559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}