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https://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/2-brothers-threaten-to-stop-cooperating-in-smollett-case/article_acc8e091-e80d-502b-b72d-26c3f3ffe2ef.html

 

2 brothers change minds, will cooperate in Smollett case

By DON BABWIN Associated Press 5 hrs ago

CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers who admitted helping actor Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago last year are again willing to help in the case after initially saying they were done cooperating with prosecutors, their attorney said Thursday.

In yet another strange twist in a story that has been full of them, attorney Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez said in a statement that Abimbola (Abel) and Olabinjo (Ola) Osundairo changed their minds after a 9mm handgun that was seized during a search of their home last year was located after it went missing.

“Abel and Ola will recommence their cooperation in the Smollett case now that the handgun has been produced by the Special Prosecutor's Office,” Schmidt Rodriguez wrote, referring to Special Prosecutor Dan Webb, who is now handling the case. The two, she wrote in a separate letter to Webb, “stand ready to testify at trial.”

The about-face by the brothers came just hours after various media outlets reported that the brothers at the center of the case against the actor were, according to their lawyer, finished cooperating because of the missing gun and their feeling that the police department's lawyers were treating them like suspects.
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... a 9mm handgun that was seized during a search of their home last year was located after it went missing.

 

... their feeling that the police department's lawyers were treating them like suspects.

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"Oh, that gun charge we couldn't hold over you, because we lost the evidence? Well, we can hold it over you, again, because you ARE suspects."

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