WEBVTT - The Diddy Trial: “He’s the Leader of a Criminal Enterprise” 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:06.600 Hey, folks, it is Thursday, June twenty sixth and closing 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.840 arguments are underway in the Ditty Trial. Welcome to this 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.360 Ditty Update edition of Amy and TJ First robes. Can 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.920 you just believe it? Closing arguments? Seven weeks of this trial, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.239 this has been going on for which has been engulfed 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.479 in this for so long. It's almost over. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.720 In a weird way, because we've been following it so 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.360 closely for these past seven weeks, time has flown by. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.960 I actually can't believe it's almost been two months. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:33.880 And yes, to your. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.520 Point, it feels crazy that it's over or it's about 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:37.960 to be over. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.640 And as we speak, folks, says this recording, closing arguments 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:46.440 are underway. The prosecution is going first. Christy Slavic is 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.519 handling handling it for the prosecution. But Rose, we got 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.360 a better idea this morning. It seemed like every day 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.640 there's a new update to the schedule that is a 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.120 little surprising to us. But we I think this is 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.000 it now, This is going to be the schedule. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.320 Yes, so the prosecution is going to finish its closing 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.960 arguments today. The defense is not going to begin its 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.200 closing arguments until Friday, and after the defense gives its 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.520 closing arguments, the prosecution will have a chance for rebuttal, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.840 and then of course the judge has to give the 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.800 jury instructures, instructions that they hammered out yesterday. So for sure, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.039 I think we can say we thought we were sure 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.800 of but now we're one hundred percent surew Okay, ninety 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.480 nine point nine percent sure that the jury won't even 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.720 begin to start their deliberations until Monday at the earliest. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.240 Okay, So going with that schedule again, both sides said 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.600 they needed four hours, So help me with this ropes. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.760 They said they needed four hours, But were they thinking 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.480 two for the closing and then two for a rebuttal? 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.720 Or is this closing going to be four? Then the 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.600 defense is going to do four and then the rebuttal 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.240 could be how long? 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:54.320 Yeah? 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.240 See, I'm confused now about because now Friday could be 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:58.840 a hell of a day for the jury if they 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.680 have to listen to four hours of the defense and 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.640 then another hour two hours prosecution and then jury instruction. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.919 So according to court reporters from what I have been 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.560 able to deduce, they say that today will be a 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.720 shorter day Thursday and Tomorrow will be what they described 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.399 as a long day, so I think it'll be what 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:20.280 they can get in. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.080 And I don't know how long. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.040 It seems as though the prosecution is going to or 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.440 expects to take four hours today and then who knows 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.560 how long the rebuttal will be. It might be dependent 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.040 upon what they hear from the defense, so they might 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.320 that might be fluid, that might not even be set 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.560 in stone right now in terms of because how would 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.040 you know what to rebut until you hear what the 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.160 defense actually presents? 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.919 And what do we make of this? With the judge 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.239 of saying about the deliberation schedule, he said he's going 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.320 to kind of leave it in the hands of the 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.560 jury for what their deliberation schedule is going to be. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.560 I mean, how much leeway do they exactly get? They 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.239 can't have full control. But what did he mean? I 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.200 didn't fully understand. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.040 I imagine that, you know, they have given up so 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:01.880 much of their time. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.520 Perhaps if some members of the. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.560 Jury need to be home by three or some you know, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.560 some jury members need to be able to get their 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.239 kids off to school, they might be able to deliberate 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.720 among themselves to pick the hours that work best. For 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.960 the group, and maybe the foreman decides that it might 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.000 be the first chance that they all have to actually 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.919 collectively make a decision on something. Before they actually make 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.800 a decision on the verdict, they'll make a decision collectively 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:26.480 on their timeline. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.160 They used to hearing that, I'm not either. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.200 No. Usually they say jury reports at this time and 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.320 court is out, or at least deliberations will end at 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:35.839 this time. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.080 So sometimes the judge will ask the jury, do you 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.480 all want to go a little later today? Sometimes I've 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.720 seen that, but I've never seen I can imagine. I mean, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.720 if you're if you're a juror, right now, they say, 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.840 how what would you like your hours to be? What 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:47.480 would you ask for? 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.000 I would like to have as long of a day 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.480 as possible to get it done as quickly as I could. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.480 I wouldn't want to keep coming back each day, So 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.320 give me a nine hour day and a quick lunch 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.320 instead of having to come back day after day after day. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.600 Especially if some of these folks, they have jobs, they 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.040 have lives, they're missing. What do they get fifty bucks 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.120 a day? You know, and some folks are our wages, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:09.800 hourly wages. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.280 They don't have salaries. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.320 They're not getting paid by their work, so I would 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.560 think there would be a motivation to go ahead and 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.000 put in the work each day instead of extending the 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:22.640 days that you have to laborate. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:23.720 Would you work through the weekend? 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.080 No, No, I don't think so. No, everybody needs a break. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:29.279 Everybody break. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.400 That's a good point. So we're still waiting on that 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.200 part to fill in about the schedule, but it looks 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.800 like we do have a better idea of how this 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.520 thing is going to go. Now, how this is going 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.640 to go with the with the prosecution, the case they're 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.359 trying to make, We've gotten a little insight. We've listened 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.160 to the first least hour plus now of the prosecution 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.240 doing its clothes, and they are using this word over 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.240 and over and over enterprise, enterprise, enterprise. He was the 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.920 head of an enterprise, enterprise enterprise. They first started with robes, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.960 this racketeering conspiracy charge, which is the one that has 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.080 the highest possible sentence. He could life in prison for 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.120 this thing. And they're trying to build and explain to 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.560 them piece by piece why he was the head of 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.800 a criminal enterprise. This is why this is kidnapping, this 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.359 is drug distribution, So they're really piecing this thing together, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.400 and it's, to be honest with you, it's kind of 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.760 some of the legalities of his hart to follow. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.599 Exactly, so right when they're getting specific about it, and 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.320 they've really been focusing right now at least on the 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.920 racketeering charge, because that is, of course, as you point out, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.560 the most serious one. So apparently they're giving the jurors 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.800 this instruction. The prosecution is there are four elements to 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:43.080 convict on a racketeering charge. Those elements are a conspiracy 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.200 to participate in criminal enterprise having an impact on state 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.640 and foreign commerce, they say, did he was knowingly part 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.000 of that enterprise, and then the enterprise agreed to commit 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.200 at least two crimes. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.279 So I'm already confused. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.880 So basically, someone Diddy would have had to have commit 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:08.520 committed two individual acts in any of these categories kidnapping, arson, bribery, bribery, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:13.840 drug distribution, sex trafficking, interstate transport for prostitution. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.520 Forced labor, witness tampering, and obstruction. My head's already spinning. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.440 And we put this in here, folks, not to say 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.400 it so you would understand it, but for you to 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.440 understand why it's so confusing and what these jurors now 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.680 have to deal with. That's just one little example we 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.520 gave you. There's tons of this stuff in there trying 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.520 to piece through. And what was the thing they did? 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.320 The prosecution took out part of the jury instruction? What 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.520 was it? They wanted the attempted kidnapping taken out? They 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.760 just wanted the word attempted taken out because if you 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:45.040 have attempted in there, it's such a confusing bit of 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.240 our legal code that they have to figure out if 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.200 you use the word attempted. They just said, the hell 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.800 would it take attempted out? And we just want to 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.240 say kidnapping? He was kidnapping? Folks, Well, it's mine. How 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.480 can they get through this quickly? 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.040 I so, I don't know's that's the number one thing 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.120 I'd like to impart to everyone listening. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.800 I don't know. I feel for the jury. They again, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.040 they've been sitting. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.840 And listening to this testimony, some of it fascinating, some 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.280 of it gripping and even maybe a little entertaining. But 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.760 this is heavy stuff because someone's life is on the line, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.600 and it is so technical, and there are so many 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.840 categories that you have to say yes or no to 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.560 or maybe I don't know, but I cannot imagine this 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.360 deliberation is going to be quick. Even if you have 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.880 a feeling about what you think, you still have to 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.680 go through each charge, and you have to go through 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.200 the legalities of each charge. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:43.720 And what it takes. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:50.680 Did the prosecution prove these specific things beyond a reasonable doubt? 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.400 And this is again, like you said, this is just 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.120 the conspiracy. Sorry, this is just the racketeering charge. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.720 So to that point, again, they're talking about, let's say 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.680 the kidnapping charge. We've been here about kidnapping. Was he 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.160 kidnapped someone kit We all know what kidnapping and we 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:09.320 think we know what kidnapping is. Well, kidnapping here is 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.440 just restricting Cassie's movements because he didn't want her to 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.560 leave a hotel room because he wanted her wounds to 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:23.760 heal first. Okay, that could sound like a stretch like kidnapping. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.480 I know what kidnapping is, but that's a very technical 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.000 term and a technical definition of kidnapping. But they might 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.840 have to figure out that kind of stuff. I do 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.199 not know how they. I would be deliberating for weeks. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.360 I mean that has happened before. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.000 It's not often, but this is that complicated. And then 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.000 of course you have Capricorn Clark, who claims she was 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.000 kidnapped by one of Ditty's bodyguards and held against her will, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.679 she says, for five days, and she says with a 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:58.080 light detector test because his jewelry witnessing and she didn't 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.200 have an explanation as to why his diamond duel where 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.880 he went missing. She said she was threatened by his 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.880 bodyguard that they were going to throw her in the 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.920 Hudson River. So we do have that direct testimony, but 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.240 is it provable. It's her word against his word. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.839 Yeah, but she also he kidnapped her because he came 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.600 to her house and said come with me, and she came. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.480 So that's kidnapping, right That those kinds of legal questions. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.720 If the guy is I mean, charge him with kidnapping 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.920 is one thing, But is he running a criminal enterprise 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:35.040 because he's a drug addict, maniac, madman, terrible boss and 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:36.840 domestic abuser. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.120 Yeah, I mean, it's it is a lot. It's a 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.960 huge mountain of evidence and it's a huge mountain to 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.240 climb to prove because what the prosecution has already started 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.280 to tell the jurors is he had an enterprise of 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.720 people working for him. He couldn't do this all on 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.600 his own. He couldn't have done what they say he 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.480 did to these women if he didn't have people helping him. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.360 And that created more of a a force. So these 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.439 women felt like they couldn't say no because they weren't 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.680 just going up against one person, they were going up 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.560 against all of his employees. And they said, even if 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.440 the lower level employees didn't know crimes for being committed, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.840 they were still being used as I think they said 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.559 the term foot soldiers see. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.440 And then I wanted, I thought a big part of 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.959 proving this case had to be that the folks had 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:27.520 to be willing, had to be knowing participants in that enterprise, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:29.800 in that crime taking place. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.000 I thought, that's so no, they're saying, as long as 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.680 it was just Diddy using people to enforce what he 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.880 was trying to control and what he was trying to get, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.719 and within what he wanted to get involved criminality, it 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.960 didn't matter if the people who were doing his bidding 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.160 knew it was criminal or not, or knew what was 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.400 going on behind those closed doors in those hotel rooms. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.880 So yes, their participation wasn't necessary for them to know 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:59.360 that it was a criminal act. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.000 We've been covering this or watching this closer than anybody 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.400 probably listening, and we still are trying to piece this together. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:17.920 And this was interesting to me too because the drug distribution. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.480 They're saying, that's a huge part of their argument that 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.439 did he and his inner circle participated in what they 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.160 say are hundreds of acts of drug distribution? But they said, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.040 if did he only did it twice, just twice where 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.640 he was asking his staff to get drugs and bring 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.520 them to him, that would meet the criteria for racketeering 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:41.880 conspiracy under the law. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.559 If he just twice did that. And I didn't realize 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.040 that either. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.760 I mean, this is I don't know what the lesser punishment. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.600 It's up to life in prison for that charge. Yes, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.000 I don't know what the statutes are. I don't know 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.080 what it says with the guide are of what lesser charge? 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.280 Is there a minimum on that? When? What does the 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.600 charge or what does sentence have to be? But that's 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.000 when we Yes, it's technically tech, it could technically legally 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.920 be true, but you said it. This is a guy 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.600 we talk about emotion involved and you just human beings 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.400 on that stand, I'm sending him to life because he 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.000 might have been a super freak and because he might 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.920 have been a bad guy because he had a drug 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.760 at it. And then you could look at that and go, yeah, technically, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.400 by the law, he should be going to prison for 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.440 the rest of his life. And maybe that's it, But 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.959 there's so much, there's so many mitigating and complicated factors here. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.319 Well, I was gonna say something else that they were 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.680 trying to impart to the jury, this idea that did 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.760 he didn't take no for an answer, that he never 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.440 took no for an answer, You couldn't tell him no, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.280 and that was part of his enterprise, that he had 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.760 so much control over all of his employees, and then 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.839 who they claim are his sex traffic victims as well, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.960 that he was a man who you had to say 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:05.280 yes to. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.920 They also flat out sett also, she said a short 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:15.640 time ago in court that of course he blew up 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.000 kid cut his car. I mean the prosecute she just 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.880 flat out set as of the jury and the closing, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.000 which nobody now can object and now the way it 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.000 can come back and necessarily rebutt it in real time. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.280 She said no he didn't cut the hole out in 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.560 the top of the car, but she is asking the 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.360 jury to essentially use common sense. Of course he was 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.600 behind it. Of course he was. This is gonna be 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.920 a fascinating day. For four hours they get to make 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.719 their case once again, and they're taking folks through a 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.360 piece by piece by piece. We do have a few 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.120 quotes here, at least from the court room as well, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.280 and again this was very early on started this out. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.960 This might have been in the first sentence or two. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.440 He's the leader of a criminal enterprise, right, this is 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.640 the guy we all watched. What do we think we 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:02.160 were watching of medium mogul, a music souper, superstar, producer 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.120 of music genius. I don't know what do we think 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.719 we were watching? They say we were watching a guy 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.600 who was the head of a He was a mob boss. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.080 Yeah. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.920 They described someone who spent most of his time, at 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.120 least in the later years, organizing and fulfilling his deviant 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.080 sexual fantasy. Said it was literally almost his full time 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.640 job at a certain point, and then getting other people 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.560 because he couldn't have done it all the way he 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.360 did it unless he had people working for him and 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.520 organizing it all and making it happen, and so yeah, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.080 he said, excuse me. The prosecution said, I thought this 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.960 was really interesting. These are not separate stories. They're all 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.320 chapters in the same book. The prosecutor said, the story 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.040 of Sean Combs and the criminal enterprise he led it 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:45.960 is the same book. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.280 And so that's what they're trying to say. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.800 This is all a part of a larger grand scheme, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.400 and that's where you get this racketeering charge. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.760 It's just wild to think that the purpose isn't the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.400 argument here that the purpose of Bad Boy Entertainment was 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:04.720 really to run sex trafficking? Is that what we're is 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:05.560 that the argument. 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.240 It's what it sounds like, and that we heard and 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.240 yet we heard Brandon Paul say it was one percent 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:09.720 of his job. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:10.960 So I'm sure the. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.000 Defense is going to have plenty to say to counter 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.080 what the prosecution is. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.400 The picture the prosecution is. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.760 Trying to paint right now that this was basically what 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.920 did he did all the time, and he got his 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.080 employees to make it happen pretty much at least weekly, 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.200 but sometimes multiple times within the week. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.160 This is incredible. They called it a methodical pattern of 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.240 violence and coercion and manipulation said did he thought that 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.480 his fame, wealth and power put him above the law. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.760 But over the course of his trial, his crimes have 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.120 been exposed. And that's it, right. The brutal crimes at 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:51.600 the heart of this case sex trafficking. That's what they're saying. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.760 The brutal crimes at the heart of this case, sex trafficking. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.560 That's what's the sex trafficking charge. Two of them, those 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:05.080 are the ones that are fifteen years minimum, yes, yes, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.640 and then it's ten years maximum on the prostitution charge. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.880 So the sax trafficking cases are very serious. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.920 You know, this is this is overwhelming, and the fact 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.880 that they came out with a bang, I have to say, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.960 she just the prose prosecutor, Christie Slavic, has come out 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.240 with a bang. Just listing, listening, listening, So I wonder 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.280 now they'll go through methodically. It was described as like 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:32.160 the most intense and complex PowerPoint presentation you've probably ever 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.360 witnessed in your life. And that's what these jurors are 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.480 witnessing right now in court today. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.280 And it's just begun. That's the crazy thing. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.520 Let me give you through all this, it's not a 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.000 lot of every once in a while, we usually find 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.120 a way to just have a laugh or a smile, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.840 you know, a little levity in some of these things 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.480 that've been brutal. This is at least one quote from 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.240 Slavic that I think most people will find a little funny. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.960 Talking about Kid Cutty and saying that Diddy, yes was 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.000 behind the bombing of the man's car. She says, quote, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.400 of course the defendant was behind this. Now, it shouldn't 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.000 come as a surprise to you that we're not suggesting 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.360 the defendant personally cut the hole in Kid cut his Porsche. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.680 You heard the audio notes the defendant didn't even buy 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:21.040 his own soup. Wow, that's okay. I'll give her that one. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:22.160 Okay, okay. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.080 That might not be a Perry Mason moment like we 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.159 saw with the defense, but that certainly was something that 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.960 landed right like, Okay, that okay, fair. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:31.320 Fair point. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.359 You can't make the argument, yeah, he would have he 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.000 had nothing to do with that. Well, yeah, of course 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.359 he wouldn't. He didn't even buy his own soup. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:37.840 Yeah. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.000 And you know, to get more specific about what Slavic 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.280 said about this racketeering conspiracy, and I was talking about 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.760 how all of the folks who got his soup and 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.679 did his other bidding in terms of getting him drugs 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.560 and everything else he needed. She said that the law 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.560 recognizes when someone commits a crime as part of a group, 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.320 they're more powerful and more dangerous, and she said that 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.600 is what happened in this instant instance with Diddy. She said, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.919 obviously Didty was already a very powerful man, but he 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:13.120 became more powerful and more dangerous because of the support 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.560 of his inner circle and his businesses. And that is 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.639 the enterprise that they're talking about that he created. And 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.879 she acknowledged that, yes, this does sound like and is 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.840 more often associated with the mafia or with organized crime, 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.240 and that's where a lot of folks have been like, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.119 come on, she did. She acknowledged that because people have 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.399 been saying that from the start of this trial that 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.119 maybe the prosecution is overreached. They're trying too hard to 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.600 put him behind bars for too long. They could have 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.840 just charged him with domestic abuse. I don't know if 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.560 there's a federal charge for that, but at least the 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.919 state could have. But there could have been lesser charges 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.919 that would have been easily provable, including drug charges, But 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:55.480 they went for the big charge of racketeering, and she acknowledged, yes, 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.040 that's usually where it is applied to, but in this 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:00.919 case it also applies. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.160 I missed that note, So yeah, I mean whatever, but yeah, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.600 she's just kind of acknowledging the oh wow, I miss that. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.720 Yes, she said the defendant used power, violence and fear 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.000 to get what he wanted. And that does sound like 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:15.840 a boss. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.760 But that is hard to think of the Five Families 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.080 of New York right to think of what they operated, 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.840 what they did, and tossing people in the river and 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:30.000 taking out hits, and there's drugs and there's all this 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.320 kind of racketeering and running. All that stuff going on 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.560 is one thing. The dude was feeding his sexual desires. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.320 That was his ultimate aim, right. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.320 And it didn't matter, according to the prosecution, who he hurt, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.640 what he had to do, and he used physical violence 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.040 as a form of intimidation to make sure that he 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:57.720 kept people where he wanted them, including yes, Cassie and 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.280 Jane and the other women who we heard from during 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.840 this trial. It's interesting, while all of this picture is 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.320 being painted of Diddy as this mob boss like man, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.520