Between rehearsals, table readings, wardrobe and makeup, shooting and re-shooting I’ve read that a typical or at least headline actor on a TV show can easily be doing 50-60 hours/week on set when working. The “when working” is significant of course. TV actors doing only one show will have a lot of down time in a year. For actors there is also the down time on set - it’s not like they are mining coal for 10-12 hours straight every day.
But 20k for 10 hours work a week is a kind of unfair exaggeration. The life of a successful actor has a ton of perks, but it isn’t all a bed of roses.
Since he seems to be drawing from some kind of cliche bucket I have to go back in time and remind people of Jerry Springer. When he was councilman of Cincinnati he paid prostitutes with a check.
So, maybe the 2 Brothers were paid to beat him off.
Every time I was a true crime store involving paying people to commit a felony the money paid is always stupidly low. Once saw a case where a man paid a guy at work $500 to kill his wife. Which he promptly did and immediately tried to make a down payment on a fancy truck with it.
For something like this though, you’d think he’d have gone with cash. I mean, this just screams, “ARREST ME PLEASE!!!”
What kills ME is that there are still idiots out there defending the guy.
This much publicity makes it impossible to predict. With publicity comes politics. It depends on if the chief/mayor/prosecutor wants to make an example of him.
In general practice a low level felony would be routinely reduced to a misdemeanor to avoid a trial. Prosecutors love an easy win. Whenever there is a trial there is always uncertainty. Under normal circumstances it would be probation or a suspended sentence and a smallish fine.
I believe his level of remorse and admittance of this will help determine that for him. So far, it doesn’t look like he’s helping himself.
ETA: I be the city of Chicago is more interested in getting him to pay back the investigation.
That’s my working theory. He wanted the publicity but didn’t want an investigation. Early reports were that his manager pushed the issue (bad career move in retrospect). Even when he did talk to police he probably figured the chance of them finding the brothers was zero. He didn’t count on all of the video in the area and the detectives being able to track them back to their point of origin.
Believe me things don’t usually go this well. Cameras are either pointed in the wrong direction or not working. Coverage isn’t that complete. People get lost in the crowd or drive off in a non-descript car. Getting all this evidence must have felt like Christmas to the detectives.