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 protecting 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 mentioned that the ladies have been NOT pressured into the notorious freak-offs.
However it’s much less easy than that: Brendan Paul can also 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 Lodge as she was making an attempt to flee a ‘freak-off’ intercourse marathon. Speak about consent!
That’s not to recommend that the high-octane Protection crew led by Mark Agnifilo hasn’t poked holes on some points of a number of the testimonies.
However in the long run, it would about be the mixture impact: has the prosecution proved the racketeering expenses?
The disgraced rap mogul is charged with utilizing his fame, his fortune, and (importantly) his corporations to additional a felony racket that exploited and intercourse trafficked girls (and male escorts) by way of violence, threats, or financial leverage.
I discover a number of the content material within the WSJ article beneath fairly on level.
Wall Street Journal reported:
“Former federal prosecutor Maria Cruz Melendez mentioned the federal government had successfully proven that a few of Combs’s former employees aided him in procuring medication, paying bribes and compensating escorts—a key a part of a racketeering conspiracy cost towards him. Ventura, a singer who was as soon as signed to Combs’s music label Dangerous Boy Data, additionally supplied a compelling account, detailing Combs’s hair-trigger mood and the management he had over her music profession and funds, mentioned Cruz Melendez, a associate at legislation agency Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.”
This different bit can also be related:
“Brian Klein, a former federal prosecutor and associate at legislation agency Waymaker, mentioned the protection crew to date has been profitable in offering further context to the prosecution’s allegations.
‘The protection is working to color an image for the jury that this can be a sequence of long-term relationships and, whereas the info is likely to be disturbing, they don’t quantity to intercourse trafficking’, he mentioned.”
However let’s learn once more what former prosecutor Melendez mentioned: “the federal government had successfully proven that a few of Combs’s former employees aided him in procuring medication, paying bribes and compensating escorts—a key a part of a racketeering conspiracy cost towards him.”
There’s no denying his violence towards girls he ‘managed’ (prosecution) or was merely ‘concerned with’ (protection).
In addition to Brendan Paul, a number of different assistants and safety personnel have been ordered to ‘carry’ or ‘transport’ medication to him.
The huge 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 Lodge to offer them ‘the one copy’ of the footage of Diddy beating Cassie.
A lot much less effectively established – however doubtlessly credible – is the accusation that Diddy and his ‘crew’ firebombed Child Cudi’s automobile and broke into his home for sleeping with Cassie.
One other worker additionally advised the jury about being forcibly rushed right into a automobile 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 need to see the place the boldness from Diddy’s protection is stemming from, and whether or not it’s justified.
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