Choose to tell the truth and to not harm others because as Jussie Smollett is learning, karma may come back to bite you unless you are too big to fail/jail.
It was the Hellenized Jews of Alexandria that were the doctors, merchants, and landlords of the finest quarter of the only remaining great city of Classical Civilization its founding in 331 BCE. Even during the years of Jewish-Roman wars, Alexandrian Jews always stayed free and prosperous until it all ended overnight in 415