Kim Foxx lied about contacts with Jussie's sister and has ethics problem

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx claimed publicly on several occasions that she cut off communication with the sister of convicted racist hoaxer Jussie Smollett after he became a suspect in the case in which he hired two Black men to pretend to be White Trump supporters and attack him at 2 a.m. on a freezing Chicago night. According to the special prosecutor's report, Foxx lied to the public as she continued communicating with her on several occasions afterward.

The report was released Monday by special prosecutor Daniel Webb. It cites multiple examples from March 2019 and at the end of May 2019 in which Foxx lied to the media by claiming she stopped communicating with Smollett's sister. In truth, she sent five text messages to her BFF and spoke with her on the phone three times through February 13, 2010--five days after she claimed she stopped communicating with her.

On Feb. 13, the women discussed the melanin levels of the alleged attackers whereby Smollett's sister asked, "They're White, right?"

Foxx told her that [unfortunately] they were not White. Then that evening, Smollett said her conversation with Foxx was "quite different" and that Foxx said they had to stop communicating anymore and that she was recusing herself from the case.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough evidence to support criminal charges against Foxx or anyone else at the Cook County State Attorney's Office (CCSAO).

However, prosecutor Webb said in his report that "the OSP did develop evidence that establishes substantial abuse of discretion and operational failures by the CCASO in prosecuting and resolving the Initial Smollett Case."

He added that it included a breach of its "obligations of honesty and transparency by making false and/or misleading statements to the public regarding the nature and reasons for the dismissal" of the initial case and said it was a "major failure of the operations."

In other words, Foxx's lies were unethical.

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Retired Judge Sheila O’Brien, successfully filed the motion as a private citizen to have a special prosecutor assigned to the case. She slammed Foxx, calling her a "liar."

"Kim Foxx should resign. This report shows she is a liar, that her administration is in chaos and that she’s blaming everyone else," O'Brien said. "She should resign. Taxpayers deserve better and Ms. Preckwinkle, her mentor, should take no part in replacing Foxx."

"Cook County Government needs to clean house," she added.

If you live above ground, you are probably aware that Jussie Smollett was found guilty of five out of six charges: lying to a police officer that he was a hate crime victim, telling an officer he was a battery victim, telling a detective he was a hate crime victim, and in this case, being a lousy script writer, actor, director and casting director for using two Black men to play the roles of two White men.

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