Chicago Police to Send Jussie Smollett Bill for ‘Hate Crime’ Investigation

Actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago on 26, 2019, after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

Chicago officials said they were planning to send actor Jussie Smollett a bill for the cost of the investigation into claims that he was a victim of a “hate crime.”

Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Page Six on March 28 that “the City of Chicago will be sending Mr. Smollett a bill.”