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He noted that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who famously dropped the charges against accused hate-crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett, announced in April that she will not seek reelection in November 2024 amid outrage over the crime surge in Chicago.

On April 3, a swatting hoaxer at Harvard phoned three times starting at 3:23 A.M., claiming he was holding a woman hostage in a dorm room and would shoot any police who walked through the door.

And last week’s D.C. hoaxer could not say whether a shooter had been spotted in a computer lab at Trinity or Catholic University, even though the Metropolitan Police Department had checked both campuses thoroughly.

Lévy, at the time, was contrite and complimented the hoaxer for his ruse.

But Paisley sang “Amazing Grace” on the phone to the nonexistent child, which formed the basis for the “theft of services” charges that sent the hoaxer to jail.