Jussie Smollett still owes Chicago $ 130,000

Two days after Chicago prosecutors unexpectedly quashed all charges against Jussie Smollett, city officials gave the actor "Empire" a week to pay back $ 130,000 used to investigate a crime motivated by the hatred committed in January, which, according to officials, was wrong.

Smollett missed the deadline and he is about to be sued.

Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's law department, said in a statement on Thursday night: "Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the city of Chicago for overtime spent by police investigating his fake police report of January 29, 2019. The Legal Department is currently preparing a civil complaint to be filed in the circuit court of Cook country. "

The suit will be filed "in the near future" and the city "will continue the full measure of damages allowed under the order," McCaffrey said.

Chicago has asked Smollett, against whom 16 charges were laid, an "immediate payment" of $ 130,106.15 "to try to resolve this case without further legal action," according to a letter obtained last week by ABC News. The letter requested payment within seven days and indicated that additional fines were possible.

Smollett, who insists that he has been "truthful and consistent at all levels since the first day," was released after losing $ 10,000 – 10% of his $ 100,000 bail – and made a few hours of community service.

Joe Magats, Illinois' first deputy attorney, told WLS's ABC radio station, WLS: "We stand behind the investigation and the facts revealed," and he did what he was accused of "and" It was not an exoneration, to say that he was exonerated by us or by anyone else is not true. "

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that the discontinuation of the lawsuit against Smollett "is without a doubt a laundering of justice."

A federal investigation into a threatening letter, according to investigators, was part of the ongoing hoax.

"Empire" is produced by 21st Century Fox, which is now part of Walt Disney Co., also the parent company of ABC News.