Jussie Smollett alleged that the investigation into the "death threat letter for hoax" had been handed over to the FBI

An investigation into a death threats letter alleged to have been received by Jussie Smollett was handed over to the FBI, a few hours after the hate crime hoax charges were abruptly dropped against the Empire's star.

Smollett said the letter had been received before he claimed to have been attacked by two masked men while he was returning home from a sandwich shop in the Chicago subway.

"The US Postal Inspection Service is working closely with our law enforcement partners in this investigation," the US Postal Service said in a statement to Fox News.

"We are not able to provide any additional comment for the moment."

Chicago police have already stated that Smollett had staged this "fictitious" attack after the threatening letter that he himself had sent to his Chicago Fox studio two weeks earlier had not attracted enough d & # 39; attention.

"If he sent this threatening letter to himself using the post office, he was guilty of postal fraud." This is five to ten years of imprisonment – this is the only one that has been sentenced. is three times more than the fact that he made a false report if the federal government wants to go there, "Fox said. Judge Andrew Napolitano, legal badyst of information, said.

Prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against Smollett on Tuesday, apparently abandoning the case five weeks after he was accused of lying to the police for being the target of a crackdown. racist and homophobic attack.

Smollett's lawyers said his case "was cleared" of the 16 charges related to the false statement that he was badaulted by two men.

The actor insisted that he had "been honest and consistent at all levels since the first day".

But the Chicago prosecutor who withdrew the charges said "we did not exonerate him" and that the charges were dropped only in exchange for his agreement to do community service and give up his $ 10,000 bond to the city.

He also told reporters that he still thought that Mr. Smollett had filed a "false police report".

Chicago Police Commissioner Eddie Johnson also challenged the decision, saying that Mr. Smollett "made this hoax, dot on the line".

The investigators said that he had made this statement because he was unhappy with his pay on Empire and that he thought it would promote his career.

The actor, who is black and homobadual, said that two men had shouted racial and anti-homobadual insults, had poured him some bleach, had him hit and had pbaded him a rope around the neck.

He claimed that they had shouted, "This is the country of MAGA," referring to the slogan of President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign.

He claimed that he could see that one of the men was white because he could see the skin around his eyes.