Judge Orders Google to Turn Over All Emails Jussie Smollett Wrote or Deleted for an Entire Year

Perhaps not since Hillary Clinton’s infamous server scandal have conservatives been so interested in a potential email dump.

Search warrants ordering tech giant Google to turn over alleged hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett’s emails, photos, location data and private messages have been granted by a Cook County judge.

The warrants were filed last month and signed on December 6 by Judge Michael Toomin, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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Chicago police, who sought the warrants, asked for data from Google accounts linked to Smollett and his manager from November 2018 to November 2019.

Google is being ordered to turn the data to special prosecutor Dan Webb.

Smollett, a former star of Fox’s “Empire” TV show, made national headlines by claiming last January that two masked men jumped him outside his Chicago apartment, calling him racist and homophobic slurs and shouting, “This is ‘MAGA’ country!”

Chicago police at first investigated the incident as a possible hate crime. Many other celebrities as well as activists, politicians and journalists rushed to condemn not just the attackers but the supposed state of President Donald Trump’s America.

However, in February, police arrested Smollett and charged him with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly orchestrating the attack as a publicity stunt. Fox cut ties with the actor and removed him from the final two episodes “Empire” Season 5, which was canceled after one more season.

Webb is investigating the handling of Smollett’s case by State Attorney Kim Foxx’s office, who, despite objections from Chicago police, dropped 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct against Smollett in March.

The city of Chicago filed a civil suit against Smollett in April, seeking $130,000 as reimbursement for the costs of the investigation into the alleged hate crime he reported.

That law suit is still pending.

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In November, Smollett and his attorneys counter-sued the city, alleging he’d been a victim of “malicious prosecution.”

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