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Later Wednesday, an official briefed on the Smollett investigation confirmed to ABC News that attorneys representing Smollett met with police and prosecutors in Chicago today. Lawyers and police would not immediately detail the substance of the discussion.

The CPD's latest public stance comes after two federal officials confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday that the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating whether Jussie Smollett played a role in sending a threatening letter addressed to him at the Chicago studio where \"Empire\" is filmed, prior to the alleged Jan. 29 attack.

The letter, which was sent Jan. 22, is currently in an FBI crime lab for analysis, one of the sources said.

The allegation concerning the alleged attack and the letter -- made by brothers Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, who are cooperating with investigators in the probe -- has not been officially confirmed.

The Osundairo brothers have also told investigators that Smollett paid them to help him orchestrate and stage the Jan. 29 attack that Smollett said occurred near his Chicago apartment, sources said. Police have not independently verified these allegations and no one has been charged in connection with the case.

“As a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation, Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with,\" Smollett attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson said in a statement Saturday. \"He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.\"

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Smollett told police that on Jan. 29, he was walking on a street near his apartment around 2 a.m. when he was set upon by two men. The attackers allegedly shouted racist and homophobic slurs before hitting him, pouring “an unknown chemical substance” on him —- possibly bleach -— and wrapping a rope around his neck, he told detectives.

On Tuesday, a previously unreported misdemeanor complaint about Smollett related to an arrest for driving under the influence in 2007 surfaced in an Associated Press report. According to the complaint, Jussie Smollett told police his name was Jake Smollett, his younger brother, and signed Jake’s name on the written promise to appear in court.

Smollett was charged with false impersonation, driving under the influence and driving without a valid license. He pleaded no contest and completed an alcohol education program, the AP reported.

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