Latest / The Breakfast Club / Diddys attorney says his case is "the biggest embarrassment to the USA"…… Diddy is to be sentenced Oct 3rd
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- 0:02Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
- 0:04Speaker 1: and everybody.
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- 0:19Speaker 2: That shake the room. Baby. Now, I just got home
- 0:24Speaker 2: from court.
- 0:24Speaker 1: You know, your girl love to take y'all a court,
- 0:27Speaker 1: lot to take y'all a court. I didn't plan on
- 0:30Speaker 1: being in court for Diddy again until October third, but
- 0:35Speaker 1: today there was actually a hearing about whether Diddy's charges,
- 0:41Speaker 1: the two Men Act charges or the two men accounts
- 0:44Speaker 1: that he has been convicted with, whether.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Those will be acquitted or not.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Now, I was told heading into this, and I talked
- 0:52Speaker 1: about this a bit on the Breakfast Club this morning,
- 0:54Speaker 1: that because Diddy, you know, was coming, was told to
- 0:58Speaker 1: come into court. You know, all of course, all of
- 1:01Speaker 1: his attorneys are there, his family is there. You know,
- 1:04Speaker 1: there was some hope that this would be a day
- 1:06Speaker 1: where things would be laid out and things, you know,
- 1:10Speaker 1: we would hear possibly that he would be acquitted of
- 1:13Speaker 1: some things. Potentially I was told that there was hope
- 1:16Speaker 1: on his end that that is what today would be
- 1:19Speaker 1: and moving forward, that's what today will equal to. Judge
- 1:21Speaker 1: did not make a decision in court today. But I'm
- 1:24Speaker 1: gonna be honest with y'all. I was sitting in court
- 1:27Speaker 1: today and it was short. We got it started at eleven.
- 1:29Speaker 1: It was over around like one, like not too long
- 1:32Speaker 1: at the one o'clock PM. And I was sitting in
- 1:35Speaker 1: court and I'm looking at Diddy. He's in an inmate jumpsuit.
- 1:38Speaker 1: It's ten His hair has been very gray with some black,
- 1:42Speaker 1: but you know, it's longer now, like you can tell.
- 1:44Speaker 1: He hasn't cut it. It's not like shackles or anything
- 1:47Speaker 1: like that. But he isn't an inmate jumpsuit.
- 1:49Speaker 2: And I'm sitting here.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I'm in an overflow room, so I'm watching the main
- 1:52Speaker 1: courtroom from a TV monitor, and I'm just like, man,
- 1:57Speaker 1: all of these weeks, all of these days, all of
- 1:59Speaker 1: the these hours that has been spent for us to
- 2:03Speaker 1: get to this moment, I don't know if it was
- 2:06Speaker 1: really worth it for the government. If I'm being honest
- 2:08Speaker 1: with y'all. In the beginning of all of this, you know,
- 2:11Speaker 1: because because typically with the Feds when they come for you,
- 2:15Speaker 1: they got some things going on.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Okay, they got some.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Things going on, Like the Feds are not just coming
- 2:21Speaker 1: for you off of whim, especially not coming by land
- 2:24Speaker 1: and by sea. So when I'm there and the prosecution
- 2:28Speaker 1: is beginning to lay out their case, that this first week,
- 2:31Speaker 1: and you know, you guys will remember I told you
- 2:34Speaker 1: I thought Diddy's team, his defense team, his attorneys, did
- 2:39Speaker 1: a great job.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Even from the very first day of court.
- 2:42Speaker 1: I thought, even though the prosecution was laying out a case,
- 2:46Speaker 1: and you know, they were slowly setting up this narrative,
- 2:49Speaker 1: and you know they were setting us up for the
- 2:52Speaker 1: slam dunk, I really thought Diddy's team did a great
- 2:54Speaker 1: job of always coming back and defending, always coming back
- 2:57Speaker 1: and reminding you of certain things that cast a bit
- 3:01Speaker 1: of doubt, especially when it came to that Rico charge.
- 3:03Speaker 1: But I thought, by the end of this case, you know,
- 3:07Speaker 1: we'd be thinking maybe Diddy's looking at anywhere from six
- 3:09Speaker 1: to ten years with sometimes served.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Now, I would be surprised if.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Diddy is gonna be I would say three years would
- 3:19Speaker 1: be a lot for him in this situation. He's already done.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It's going to be fourteen months. Sometime soon they're asking
- 3:26Speaker 1: for time served. And today Ditty's attorney, Shapiro, Diddy's attorney,
- 3:32Speaker 1: she stood up at the at the end of everything,
- 3:35Speaker 1: at the end of them arguing back and forth for
- 3:37Speaker 1: all these hours about things we don't heard them say
- 3:39Speaker 1: a thousand and one times, she stood up and she said,
- 3:42Speaker 1: this is the biggest embarrassment to the United States of America.
- 3:47Speaker 1: She's talking about this whole first of all, the whole case,
- 3:50Speaker 1: but just the fact that Diddy is still sitting here
- 3:52Speaker 1: on these Men Act prostitution charges.
- 3:54Speaker 2: I said, oh, I know what this is about. Baby.
- 3:56Speaker 1: They know how to feed the media, don't they, Because
- 3:58Speaker 1: that right there, that was a hell of the headline.
- 4:00Speaker 1: That was a hell of a mic drop moment. So
- 4:03Speaker 1: I want to back you guys up and just take
- 4:04Speaker 1: you through what court today was like. So we were there,
- 4:08Speaker 1: court begins and they're arguing back and forth.
- 4:11Speaker 2: It's kind of like a ping pong.
- 4:12Speaker 1: So the defense is arguing that basically, what are we
- 4:16Speaker 1: even doing here? These are consenting adults, Cassie Jane and
- 4:21Speaker 1: Ditty who were in a relationship at various times with Diddy,
- 4:25Speaker 1: and they decided to go and do threesomes and live
- 4:28Speaker 1: this voyeurism lifestyle, and because of that, now their client,
- 4:32Speaker 1: Diddy is facing time in jail, which is not fair.
- 4:37Speaker 1: They also leaned heavily into, you know, bringing up the
- 4:39Speaker 1: fact that the Man Act and a lot of the
- 4:41Speaker 1: background on the Man Act is you know, has very
- 4:44Speaker 1: you know, racial undertones. That has been a conversation and
- 4:47Speaker 1: that leans back into kind of what Diddy's team's narrative
- 4:51Speaker 1: has been this whole time. Their narrative this whole time
- 4:54Speaker 1: has been Diddy is a black man with money, with
- 4:58Speaker 1: power who is being targeted by the government. The prosecution
- 5:02Speaker 1: came in and said, listen, we already addressed all of that,
- 5:05Speaker 1: so y'all could try that if y'all want to.
- 5:06Speaker 2: We've already addressed all of that.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Not only did we already address it, but a jury
- 5:11Speaker 1: sat here for seven to eight weeks and heard all
- 5:15Speaker 1: of this, all of these claims, everything that you guys
- 5:17Speaker 1: are bringing up, and they decided that we needed to
- 5:20Speaker 1: be here. They convicted him, not us, did he team also,
- 5:25Speaker 1: you know, took a lot of time establishing what prostitution
- 5:30Speaker 1: is it's not, and what should be considered a john
- 5:36Speaker 1: or not because Diddy's host, Diddy.
- 5:38Speaker 2: It's the whole team.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Their argument is that Diddy didn't receive any financial game
- 5:44Speaker 1: from this, so how can this be looked at as
- 5:47Speaker 1: anything but him producing? They called him a great producer
- 5:52Speaker 1: of amateur porn, and I'm like, not Diddy being a
- 5:55Speaker 1: man all up in the videos working in his favor.
- 5:57Speaker 1: In court they called him a producer amateur porn, and
- 6:00Speaker 1: they said, they specifically said this was cooperated because you
- 6:04Speaker 1: had several people get on the stand from assistance to
- 6:09Speaker 1: Jane Doe to Cassie and talk about how well produced
- 6:13Speaker 1: these king knights or these Hotel knights were great. Lighting,
- 6:17Speaker 1: everything was choreographed because Diddy was telling the girls what
- 6:20Speaker 1: to do, what to wear.
- 6:22Speaker 2: There was costume, there.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Was they made it a full production, baby, And they said,
- 6:27Speaker 1: there's two things in two.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Ways this can be looked at.
- 6:29Speaker 1: He was a great producer of amateur porn and he
- 6:32Speaker 1: was a consumer of amateur porn, which you can't he
- 6:37Speaker 1: can't be he can't be convicted of these counts under
- 6:39Speaker 1: the Man Act because of that that violates his First
- 6:42Speaker 1: Amendment rights, which gives him the right to do so.
- 6:45Speaker 2: The prosecution said.
- 6:46Speaker 1: That's not you know, we're not even going there with
- 6:48Speaker 1: y'all because the Man Act and the way that we're
- 6:51Speaker 1: angling this does not violate his constitutional rights. So let's see,
- 6:55Speaker 1: let's stop there. And then that's when Diddy's team brought
- 6:57Speaker 1: back in. You know, the mic drop of this is embarrassment.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Why are we even here? What is this all about?
- 7:04Speaker 1: These people were consenting. There is not proof that Diddy
- 7:08Speaker 1: benefited anyway financially. Now, one thing that I thought was interesting,
- 7:13Speaker 1: you know, in court today was the fact that, I mean,
- 7:16Speaker 1: I think the judge has been done a really good
- 7:18Speaker 1: job up until this point of being very neutral.
- 7:21Speaker 2: I do think today in court you could.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Tell that, first of all, I predicted the judge is
- 7:26Speaker 1: not going to acquit anything whatsoever.
- 7:28Speaker 2: That's number one. Number two. If Diddy was to get
- 7:32Speaker 2: time served and be able to.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Get the supervisor released and all the things they've asked for,
- 7:36Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised.
- 7:38Speaker 2: But I also would not be surprised if the.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Judge says, no, we need to look at what prosecution
- 7:45Speaker 1: is asking for on the minimum, like how can we
- 7:48Speaker 1: get closer to there? Because I think one of the
- 7:51Speaker 1: things that you know, I felt in watching and listening
- 7:56Speaker 1: to the judge today in court, was that number one
- 8:00Speaker 1: not letting up when he desired prosecution or the defense.
- 8:02Speaker 1: He wants to make a decision and he wants to
- 8:04Speaker 1: make it very sternly on the law. For instance, he
- 8:09Speaker 1: acts the prosecution. You know, he's like, listen, y'all submitted
- 8:12Speaker 1: all this case law or like previous cases to prove
- 8:16Speaker 1: the point that he deserves to go to jail for
- 8:19Speaker 1: such and such time based on the man act and
- 8:21Speaker 1: you know all the things one of the cases that
- 8:23Speaker 1: you guys submitted, and all the cases you guys submitted.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I need a more specific reference of where a man
- 8:30Speaker 1: is not financially benefiting from these commercial sex.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Acts and he is jailed after being convicted.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I need a better example because what y'all provided for
- 8:42Speaker 1: me there was an exchange of money, and at the time,
- 8:45Speaker 1: the prosecution couldn't even So he's like, do y'all have
- 8:48Speaker 1: any more case study? The prosecution couldn't even come up
- 8:50Speaker 1: with a case on the top of their head, but
- 8:52Speaker 1: they said that they would provide more in their sentencing conversation.
- 8:56Speaker 1: So when he did that, I'm like, okay, Like it's
- 8:59Speaker 1: very good to know that at this judge's still being fair,
- 9:01Speaker 1: even though to me, I could kind of tell that
- 9:04Speaker 1: he's not going for the argument that Diddy's team is
- 9:08Speaker 1: going for with this whole acquittal thing.
- 9:10Speaker 2: I do highly doubt anything will be acquitted.
- 9:13Speaker 1: I thought this was an alert about the case because
- 9:16Speaker 1: we're still waiting for the judge to make a decision
- 9:18Speaker 1: on the acquittal. But he's being very fair. He's being
- 9:22Speaker 1: very tough on both sides. I do think he's going
- 9:25Speaker 1: a little bit harder on Diddy side, though. I think
- 9:27Speaker 1: Diddy's team has not proven.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Anything with the acquittal. I think that's number one.
- 9:34Speaker 1: I also think when you know, because Diddy's team, they
- 9:36Speaker 1: also were making a point that they're trying to define prostitution,
- 9:40Speaker 1: and you know, in defining prostitution, you're able to then pinpoint,
- 9:45Speaker 1: if you're the prosecution, the specific acts that did he
- 9:50Speaker 1: the specific things that did he did that lean into
- 9:54Speaker 1: what the definition of prostitution is.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Right.
- 9:56Speaker 1: So Diddy's team is on the other side, you know,
- 9:59Speaker 1: they're trying to define prostitution from their end of things,
- 10:03Speaker 1: and they're trying to lay out everything that proves that
- 10:06Speaker 1: there was intent to consent by the women. So they
- 10:10Speaker 1: bring up the fact that, like, you know, Jane Doe
- 10:12Speaker 1: mentioned she had gotten Diddy a TV so that they
- 10:14Speaker 1: could watch some of the videos they recorded, these highly produced,
- 10:18Speaker 1: choreographed videos right that they're calling amateur porn, and Diddy's
- 10:21Speaker 1: team is like, you know, this is this is just
- 10:24Speaker 1: like OnlyFans, right, and Diddy shaking his head yes during this,
- 10:27Speaker 1: like she's not asking him, she's talking to the judge,
- 10:29Speaker 1: but Diddy was visibly shaking his said yes in agreeance, like,
- 10:32Speaker 1: and she's making the point that with only fans, when
- 10:36Speaker 1: people are watching these acts or whatever they're watching, there
- 10:41Speaker 1: there's an intention. So the woman who is recording the
- 10:46Speaker 1: intention is to show it, and the people who are
- 10:50Speaker 1: watching are consumers who also who.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Attend, who intend to consume.
- 10:55Speaker 1: And she made the point that Diddy's attorney made the
- 10:58Speaker 1: point that that's exact exactly what was happening with Diddy
- 11:01Speaker 1: in the free COFs and the fact that anything was
- 11:03Speaker 1: being recorded.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Things are being recorded.
- 11:06Speaker 1: Not because you know, these women are being paid or
- 11:08Speaker 1: reimbursed for an act that only benefits Diddy, but because
- 11:12Speaker 1: everybody involved had the intent to watch it.
- 11:16Speaker 2: At the end, that was the point that was meant.
- 11:26Speaker 1: But I will say, I think Diddy's team there was
- 11:29Speaker 1: one question at the judge and it was more of
- 11:31Speaker 1: a clarifying question. But I thought that, you know, this
- 11:34Speaker 1: being asked as a clarifying question was very It was
- 11:38Speaker 1: very telling of where I think the judge stands. Again,
- 11:40Speaker 1: this is what made me think the judge is not
- 11:42Speaker 1: going to acquit any of Ditty's charges.
- 11:44Speaker 2: So the judge says okay.
- 11:46Speaker 1: The whole time, the judge is trying to get a
- 11:48Speaker 1: better understanding from both sides, from prosecution and defense, so
- 11:51Speaker 1: he's like okay.
- 11:52Speaker 2: To Ditty's attorneys, he's like, so.
- 11:53Speaker 1: You're telling me ifs if a businessman and his client
- 11:56Speaker 1: goes to a brothel and the businessman pays the brothel
- 12:00Speaker 1: to have sex with this client, then this is not prostitution.
- 12:04Speaker 2: And she says, no, it's not prostitution.
- 12:07Speaker 1: And the judge is like, and you're saying that it's
- 12:09Speaker 1: not prostitution because at this point the businessman has no
- 12:13Speaker 1: financial gain and she's like yeah.
- 12:15Speaker 2: So he's like okay.
- 12:16Speaker 1: He's trying to understand, but he acts multiple times like
- 12:19Speaker 1: so this is not prostitution. So he's clarifying, but the
- 12:23Speaker 1: undertone to the to the final clarifying question, I'm like, oh, yeah, no,
- 12:26Speaker 1: he's the judge is not buying it whatsoever. And me
- 12:30Speaker 1: walking into court today and sitting there and thinking why
- 12:32Speaker 1: are we here? I think you know that speaks to
- 12:35Speaker 1: the conversation a lot of people are going to be
- 12:37Speaker 1: having about this for a very long time, Like, did
- 12:39Speaker 1: the government overreach? Was everything the government did necessary? Was
- 12:42Speaker 1: all the resources that were used necessary? On and on
- 12:45Speaker 1: and on and so forth. But when it comes specifically
- 12:48Speaker 1: to the two charges that did he is convicted with,
- 12:50Speaker 1: I do believe that in court there was enough there
- 12:53Speaker 1: to convict him.
- 12:53Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't matter what I believe. Y'all heard
- 12:55Speaker 2: it from the jury.
- 12:56Speaker 1: But and being in court, I will tell you I
- 12:59Speaker 1: wasn't surprised that those charges stuck whatsoever. Right, So, a
- 13:04Speaker 1: lot of people are having a conversation now when it
- 13:06Speaker 1: comes to prostitution about is this fair? Because right now
- 13:11Speaker 1: at this point, are we just minding someone's sexual business?
- 13:16Speaker 1: Are we minding what goes on in Diddy's bed?
- 13:19Speaker 2: Basically?
- 13:20Speaker 1: Right, why does the court? Why does the government have
- 13:23Speaker 1: their hand in a man's sex life? So they had
- 13:26Speaker 1: a conversation about this in court today and basically you know,
- 13:29Speaker 1: the judge is asking both sides to clarify, why does
- 13:33Speaker 1: the court care about this and why should we not.
- 13:36Speaker 1: So Diddy seem is saying, look, this was a consensual
- 13:38Speaker 1: relationship grown adults got into. They'd had threesomes, they traveled,
- 13:42Speaker 1: they live this lifestyle. The things that you know can
- 13:46Speaker 1: be brought up as heinous or you know, and of
- 13:48Speaker 1: course they're probably referring to the Cassie video and all
- 13:51Speaker 1: those things. That's not what we are here. We're here
- 13:56Speaker 1: now because of prostitution. So if we're letting all that go,
- 13:59Speaker 1: the reason why the government should be out of Diddy's
- 14:02Speaker 1: bedroom is because it was behind closed doors.
- 14:04Speaker 2: These are consenting adults.
- 14:06Speaker 1: The government was like, wait, what, No, the problem is,
- 14:11Speaker 1: according to the government, any case where someone has been
- 14:15Speaker 1: has faced a consequence for prostitution, or any law that
- 14:19Speaker 1: you know centers around prostitution, the point of those laws
- 14:23Speaker 1: is because prostitution extends an arm to bigger things like
- 14:27Speaker 1: harm in the community in different ways. So they talked about,
- 14:30Speaker 1: you know, exposure to drug use, They talked about laws
- 14:33Speaker 1: being created around prostitution because you want to monitor abuse
- 14:37Speaker 1: against women in various ways. You want to monitor drug use,
- 14:41Speaker 1: you know, and the prosecution is like, if we look
- 14:44Speaker 1: at it, all of that is.
- 14:46Speaker 2: In this case.
- 14:46Speaker 1: There were drugs given to everyone involved in this, and
- 14:51Speaker 1: every time they testified they said that they came the
- 14:54Speaker 1: drugs came from Diddy. There was obvious abuse to women.
- 14:57Speaker 1: They talk about Casside. The prosecution they ate with this one.
- 15:00Speaker 1: So the prosecution, you know, after Diddy's team, it's like, listen,
- 15:04Speaker 1: this is this man's personal bed. The government should not
- 15:06Speaker 1: be in his personal bed. This is an embarrassment. Blah
- 15:08Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. The government comes back in and
- 15:11Speaker 1: they're like, basically they wanted to say embarrassment, embarrassment, girl aware,
- 15:16Speaker 1: because let's talk about what happens behind those closed doors.
- 15:19Speaker 1: They specifically say Cassie was getting her face beating. Drugs
- 15:23Speaker 1: were given to everybody, which is why in a case
- 15:26Speaker 1: like this, that's why we're sitting here.
- 15:28Speaker 2: The decisions were made by the defense's client.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Now, listen, Diddy is to be sentenced October third, if
- 15:36Speaker 1: nothing is acquitted. I will tell you one thing too
- 15:38Speaker 1: that I thought was telling in the courtroom what the
- 15:41Speaker 1: judge basically was trying to do with say, okay, if
- 15:44Speaker 1: we are. If nothing is acquitted here, I will see
- 15:46Speaker 1: you all next Friday, court is adjourned. Instead of doing that,
- 15:50Speaker 1: he kind of stumbled on his words a bit. So
- 15:52Speaker 1: the judge said, I'll see you all next and then
- 15:55Speaker 1: he stopped. He said, if nothing is acquitted, i'll see
- 15:57Speaker 1: you all next week. And I'm like, oh, baby, the
- 15:59Speaker 1: judge road got his mind made up. I'll see you
- 16:01Speaker 1: next week, Judge, we'll all be here Friday. We'll be here,
- 16:04Speaker 1: light and bright.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, don't I don't know. I do think. I
- 16:09Speaker 2: always say I don't know, and then I'll tell you
- 16:10Speaker 2: what I know.
- 16:11Speaker 1: I do think that the conversation on whether the government
- 16:15Speaker 1: wasted their time going so hard reaching so high in
- 16:17Speaker 1: the beginning will always be a thing, and I think
- 16:21Speaker 1: it definitely looks insane. But I don't think that a
- 16:26Speaker 1: judge is looking at any of that when making his
- 16:28Speaker 1: decision about the two counts that Diddy is facing right now.
- 16:31Speaker 2: And I think that.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Diddy's team, you know, they talked about a bunch of
- 16:35Speaker 1: different things. They talked about, you know, his his First
- 16:37Speaker 1: Amendment rights. They talked about you know, consensual versus non consensual.
- 16:41Speaker 1: They went into all that, But them still leaning the
- 16:44Speaker 1: strongest on Basically, this was an overreach, this was targeting,
- 16:48Speaker 1: and this is embarrassing. The judge ain't face baby. The
- 16:51Speaker 1: judge doesn't care about any of that whatsoever. The judge
- 16:53Speaker 1: is looking at right now. What are we dealing with?
- 16:56Speaker 2: What are we like The.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Things that you could have said were the overreach, which
- 17:01Speaker 1: was the rico with things of that nature. He's not
- 17:04Speaker 1: Those charges are not here anymore. So let's focus on
- 17:07Speaker 1: what we're focusing on.
- 17:09Speaker 2: We here.
- 17:10Speaker 1: I don't think an a quittal will happen, but we'll
- 17:12Speaker 1: have to see what happens.
- 17:13Speaker 2: I'm lorn l Rosa. This is the latest with Lona Rosa.
- 17:16Speaker 1: At the end of the day, y'all could be anywhere
- 17:18Speaker 1: with anybody talking about this, but you choose to.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Be right here.
- 17:21Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys so much, and I will see
- 17:23Speaker 1: you in my next episode.