WATCH LIVE: Jussie Smollett sentencing underway in Chicago for hate crime hoax

Disgraced “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is in court today for sentencing after being convicted of faking a hate crime.

Smollett, 39, faces up to three years in prison for each of the five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to the police of which he was convicted in December.

 

 

 


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