Smollet’s Defense Atty. Mark Geragos: This Is ‘Frankly a Media Gangbang...of Unprecedented Proportions’

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GERAGOS: "Hold on for one second, Anderson. They’re bringing 16 counts. They’re bringing 16 counts, because they parsed out two statements. He was not suspended. They have not talked to one person at Fox who has said he was dissatisfied with his money. They have not interviewed one person connected with the show Empire who says he was dissatisfied with his money. They are the ones who started the internal investigation about the leaks because all of the information that was being leaked was false, and I wasn’t at Northwestern hospital, Northwestern hospital supposedly, if you believe the reporting, let go of 50 people because 50 people have illegally accessed his records. What is happening here is frankly a media gangbang of this guy of unprecedented proportions and that’s the reason I got into this. I’ve never seen a media pendulum swing more quickly and more viciously and rob somebody of their presumption of innocence like this case. It’s startling the way people assume that he’s guilty. He hasn’t been given one stitch of discovery. Not one. There isn’t one police report. Your package just said he paid $3500. I’ve got the texts. Those texts and they conceded that the check and the texts were for training. It wasn’t to pay anything. So I don’t understand where any of this comes from. He’s supposed — "