Subsequent week, the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs protection will current its case, maybe in as little as two days, which might sign that they’re optimistic about his acquittal.
Some papers masking the trial additionally appear to be leaning this manner, with the Day by day Mail, for instance, saying that the protection scored a ‘win’ when witness Brendan Paul stated that the ladies had been NOT pressured into the notorious freak-offs.
But it surely’s much less easy than that: Brendan Paul can be the witness who admitted bringing medication to Diddy on a number of events, solely to show round and say he was NOT the rapper’s ‘drug mule’.
So, possibly it’s semantics with Brendan Paul.
By now, each the jury and the world have seen the pictures of the beating that Diddy inflicted on Cassie Ventura in a Resort as she was making an attempt to flee a ‘freak-off’ intercourse marathon. Speak about consent!
That isn’t to recommend that the high-octane Protection workforce led by Mark Agnifilo hasn’t poked holes on some elements of a few of the testimonies.
However in the long run, it can about be the combination impact: has the prosecution proved the racketeering costs?
The disgraced rap mogul is charged with utilizing his fame, his fortune, and (importantly) his firms to additional a prison racket that exploited and intercourse trafficked ladies (and male escorts) by way of violence, threats, or financial leverage.
I discover a few of the content material within the WSJ article under fairly on level.
Wall Street Journal reported:
“Former federal prosecutor Maria Cruz Melendez stated the federal government had successfully proven that a few of Combs’s former staff aided him in procuring medication, paying bribes and compensating escorts—a key a part of a racketeering conspiracy cost in opposition to him. Ventura, a singer who was as soon as signed to Combs’s music label Dangerous Boy Data, additionally offered a compelling account, detailing Combs’s hair-trigger mood and the management he had over her music profession and funds, stated Cruz Melendez, a associate at legislation agency Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.”
This different bit can be related:
“Brian Klein, a former federal prosecutor and associate at legislation agency Waymaker, stated the protection workforce up to now has been profitable in offering extra context to the prosecution’s allegations.
‘The protection is working to color an image for the jury that this can be a collection of long-term relationships and, whereas the information is likely to be disturbing, they don’t quantity to intercourse trafficking’, he stated.”
However let’s learn once more what former prosecutor Melendez stated: “the federal government had successfully proven that a few of Combs’s former staff aided him in procuring medication, paying bribes and compensating escorts—a key a part of a racketeering conspiracy cost in opposition to him.”
There’s no denying his violence in opposition to ladies he ‘managed’ (prosecution) or was merely ‘concerned with’ (protection).
Apart from Brendan Paul, a number of different assistants and safety personnel had been ordered to ‘deliver’ or ‘transport’ medication to him.
The large work of scheduling and paying for the a number of male escorts was additionally handled Diddy’s staff or lovers.
It has been clearly established that Diddy and safety personnel acted in live performance to bribe the safety guard from the Resort to offer them ‘the one copy’ of the footage of Diddy beating Cassie.
A lot much less nicely established – however probably credible – is the accusation that Diddy and his ‘crew’ firebombed Child Cudi’s automotive and broke into his home for sleeping with Cassie.
One other worker additionally informed the jury about being forcibly rushed right into a automotive the place a drugged and armed Diddy was heading to a nightclub to confront a rival.
That is only a pattern of the compelling testimony – to not point out Cassie Ventura and ‘Jane’ who gave lengthy, grueling, very uncomfortable however extremely consequential accounts of Diddy’s alleged crimes.
So we’ll should see the place the boldness from Diddy’s protection is stemming from, and whether or not it’s justified.
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