Man at center of Jussie Smollett case testifies he helped fake hate crime because he ‘felt indebted’ to actor

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One of the men at the center of the criminal case against former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett took the witness stand on the third day of the trial Wednesday, testifying that Smollett recruited him and his brother to stage a phony hate crime in Chicago nearly three years ago.