^^This^^.  Jussie's friends and Rahm's friends are the same people. He would have preferred Smollett get prosecuted with some slap on the wrist sentence.  Rinse wash repeat.  Now the feds will have reason to unpack the whole thing.  Michelle's chief of staff is implicated here.  No way Rahm is not connected to those people he was Obama's chief of staff.  The Loop Capitol connection is probably what he is concerned about.