Right now, it seems likely that Jussie Smollett is not only going to be found guilty of staging a fake hate crime and lying about it to police, but also of perjury.

Smollett is facing six counts of felony disorderly conduct for allegedly orchestrating a hate crime against himself and making false reports to the police about it. He took the stand to testify in his defense on Monday, denying repeatedly that his story about two men attacking him outside his downtown Chicago apartment just after 2 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2019, was a hoax. He also denied that he paid the Osundairo brothers, the alleged attackers who worked with Smollett as extras on the set of his show Empire, $3,500 to stage the attack, claiming he only paid them for a five-week “nutrition/workout program.”