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Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted on sixteen felony charges by a grand jury for falsifying a police report. The first set of charges relates to the police report he filed January 29 after the alleged attack the day before and the second set, from a follow-up interview he did with police.

Smollett told Chicago police he was attacked by two men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs and even tied a noose around his neck. He also claimed to have received a threatening letter days before the attack which police have now determined Smollett wrote himself.

A conviction on any of the counts could lead to anything from probation to three years in prison.