BREAKING NEWS – Chicago, Illinois – An Illinois judge granted two sweeping search warrants ordering Google to turn over a year’s worth of data from Jussie Smollett and his manager as a special prosecutor probes whether or not the “Empire” actor staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself. The warrants, filed last month in Cook County Circuit Court, will give investigators access to Smollett’s and his manager’s texts, emails, photos, location data, drafted and deleted messages, any files in their Google Drive cloud storage services, Google Voice texts, calls and contacts, as well as their search and web browsing history, dated between November 2018 and November 2019, according to reports by the Chicago Tribune. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office charged Smollett in February 2019 with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly orchestrating the incident, and later dropped all the charges a month later with little explanation. Upon hearing about the new search warrants, she quit her job, had her name legally changed, and was last seen driving a U-Haul heading north, a few miles away from the Canadian border.
