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A legitimate recusal to avoid this conflict of interest would’ve required Foxx’s entire office to remove themselves from the case and they would’ve needed to appoint a special prosecutor.
Instead, Foxx kept it with her office and
continued to meddle in the case until the charges were dropped against Smollett on March 26, other internal correspondence showed.
On March 27, the
agency said in a statement Foxx had only “colloquially” recused herself and was not “formally recused” in a legal sense, although it’s not immediately clear how a state attorney can discuss recusals in a colloquial sense.
On April 12 following a wave of backlash over her handling of the case, Foxx asked Cook County’s inspector general to investigate her office’s handling of the case.
“The Office of the Independent Inspector General is investigating the handling of the recusal, and the ultimate disposition of the case,” a spokesperson told The Post.
“We look forward to the findings.”
