What a scalawag! 
According to the information presented by police superintendent Eddie Johnson and prosecutor Risa Lanier, greed was one root of the hoax. Smollett's pay per episode of Empire has been variously reported as as low as $65,000 and as high as $125,000. Either figure puts him in the dreaded one percent at the top of the income distribution. Progressives love to lecture us about the injustice of high incomes but always exempt their own. Being a progressive is akin to the papal indulgences of the Middle Ages.
But there is another obvious motive: political — hatred of Donald Trump. Drudge has been featuring a picture of him that says it all:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/spare_me_all_the_pieties_about_jussie_smollett.html
According to the information presented by police superintendent Eddie Johnson and prosecutor Risa Lanier, greed was one root of the hoax. Smollett's pay per episode of Empire has been variously reported as as low as $65,000 and as high as $125,000. Either figure puts him in the dreaded one percent at the top of the income distribution. Progressives love to lecture us about the injustice of high incomes but always exempt their own. Being a progressive is akin to the papal indulgences of the Middle Ages.
But there is another obvious motive: political — hatred of Donald Trump. Drudge has been featuring a picture of him that says it all:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/spare_me_all_the_pieties_about_jussie_smollett.html