Cook County grand jury indicts Smollett

A Cook County grand jury on Thursday returned a 16-count indictment against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, according to court records.

The Cook County state's attorney's office confirmed the indictment on disorderly conduct charges alleging he filed a false police report about being attacked.

The TV actor has said he was the victim of a vicious hate crime in the Streeterville neighborhood on Jan. 29. He said two men attacked him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs, threw a chemical liquid on him and looped a rope around his neck.

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