The city of Chicago has billed Jussie Smollett for $130,000 for the police probe into his case, ten times the amount he forfeited in bond on Tuesday in exchange for having the charges against him dropped.

The money will be used to recoup overtime costs for officers who worked round-the-clock to solve the case after Smollett described it as a hate crime.

'When (Smollett) does pay the city back on just what the taxpayers have fronted, in that memo section (of the check), he can write, "I’m sorry and I’m accountable for what I’ve done,"' Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, a stinging reference to the check Smollett allegedly gave two Nigerian brothers to attack him in which he described as being for 'personal training'.

It came after Emanuel told President Trump to 'just sit this one out'. The president called the case an ' embarrassment to our nation'.

Smollett's attorneys have hit back and say he has already 'paid enough'.

'It is the Mayor and the Police Chief who owe Jussie - owe him an apology - for dragging an innocent man's character through the mud.

'Jussie has paid enough,' they said.

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Rahm Emanue has billed Jussie Smollett for $130,000 for the money spent on police overtime investigating his 'hoax' attack on January 29

Trump called the decision by local prosecutors 'outrageous.' It was not entirely clear if he was demanding further investigation or calling for new activity. Emanuel told him to 'just sit this one out'

Emanuel wants him not only to pay because the city is out of pocket but because he says it will finally show some accountability on the actor's part.

'It is a small way of both acknowledging, one, guilt, two, that we spent these resources and the taxpayers deserve, at minimum — because I think there’s a whole other level of ethical costs, because he’s still walking around, ‘Hey, I’m innocent, everything I said from day one is true’ — that actually we’re going to get the resources back,' he added.

Smollett, 36, flew back to Los Angeles on Wednesday after spending the night in Chicago following the bombshell development in the case.

He agreed to forfeit $10,000 in bond to have the charges dropped and completed 16 hours of community service, something he says was voluntary but which prosecutors say was part of their deal.

Mayor Emanuel said after the charges were dropped on Tuesday that that $10,000 does not come close to covering the total cost of the investigation into the January 29 hate crime he is accused of staging.

This email was leaked on Wednesday which shows Foxx scrambling to find other examples to back up her office's decision on Smollett

The real figure, he said, was closer to $150,000.

Emanuel has condemned the state's attorney for her handling of the case.

His distaste for Trump stems from the president's comments about the 2017 Charlottesville riots where he said both the right-wing protesters and counter protesters were alike.

'The fact is, you’re a guy, I take umbrage that you have a person sitting in the Oval Office who drew a moral equivalency in Virginia between those who were fighting bigotry and those who were perpetuating bigotry,' Emanuel said, explaining his comment about Trump.

Kim Foxx, the embattled Cook County State's Attorney who recused herself from the in February after exchanging text messages with one of his relatives but never appointed a special prosecutor, is also scrambling to find examples to justify the decision.

In a series of interviews on Wednesday, she said that what had been agreed between his team and hers was what is known as 'alternative prosecution' whereby a defendant agrees to a certain set of term and has the case dropped in exchange.

Foxx dismissed the public outcry around it and said only the people 'in the weeds' of the justice system would understand that it was actually commonplace and had happened thousands of times before.

Kim Foxx, the recused Cook County State's Attorney who is facing scrutiny for her handling of the Jussie Smollett case, stood by her office's decision on Wednesday and said Smollett got off because it was the lowest class of felony and he has no criminal background

There was no such explanation for it on Tuesday, when she stayed quiet and put Joseph Magats, her assistant who ultimately signed off on the decision, in front of cameras to try to address the many questions surrounding the case.

But Wednesday, Foxx sent an email to staff asking for them to come up with examples to prove her story.

Smollett's attorneys are still maintaining his innocence.

In an interview on Today, Tina Glandian claimed that Smollett did not recognize the Abel and Ola Osundairo when they attacked him on January 29 and that it still has not been proven that it was them, despite the fact that Smollett identified a photograph of the pair as his attackers before he was ever arrested and even though they had just been on the phone with him.

When he learned it was them once they were in custody, Glandian said, Smollett 'found it hard to believe' because he had told that he could make out one had 'pale or white skin' around his eyes beneath the ski mask he was wearing.

It was not a lie, she insisted, adding that the reason for it could have been that the brothers were in 'disguise'.

'He did tell police that from what he saw, he thought it was white or pale skin, that's what he initially said.

'Obviously, you can disguise that. You can put make-up on,' she said.

She went on to point to a 2016 YouTube video of Abel Osundairo, the brother in question, where he is wearing white make-up to perform a Joker monologue as potential proof of her theory.