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Jussie smollett directed two brothers to buy a noose at a hardware store and buy hats and masks at another store then he paid the brothers $3,500 to stage that attack. police say the brothers wore gloves and did strike jussie smollett but the scratches and bruises on the actor's face were likely self-inflicted. investigators say he staged the attack because he was unhappy with his salary on the fox tv show empire. on top of these new counts smollett could also be facing federal charges for mail fraud. investigators have indicated that before the alleged attack smollett also sent himself a thre...

Infer that they were cooperating fully. and if they were paid to attack smollett, then they're probably approached by the police and they say, look, you have potentially committed a crime, so now is a good time to tell us everything you know. and history has shown that when folks like this are put in a room without an attorney and presented the facts of life, they often -- and there are tv shows, entire shows based on this human instinct -- they often try to do whatever they can to get themselves out of trouble, and that includes talking or snitching about whoever else they can. >> police in c...