As part of a special prosecutor’s investigation into whether actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist, homophobic attack against himself in January 2019, Google has reportedly been told to hand over one year’s worth of his messages, emails, photos, and location data to investigators.
According to the Chicago Tribune, two search warrants were filed last month which requested a trove of data from the Google accounts of Smollett and his manager. The requested data includes:
The warrants reportedly requested data from November 2018 to November 2019 and were signed off by Judge Michael Toomin on December 6, 2019.
The Chicago Tribune adds that the judge ordered Google and its “representatives, agents and employees” to not disclose the hand over of these records because doing so “may jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation.”
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