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Diddy Defense Hits Back, Closing Remarks Continue | Crime Alert 06.27.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al art hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Closing arguments are underway in Sean Diddy
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  Speaker 2: Combe's federal sex trafficking trial. US attorney Christy Slavic delivered
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor's statement in about six hours Thursday, reminding the jury
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  Speaker 2: of the testimony they heard and clarifying what they want
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  Speaker 2: jurors to focus on in their deliberations. Sean Combs is
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  Speaker 2: charged with racketeering and two counts each of sex trafficking
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  Speaker 2: and transportation to engage in prostitution. The final two counts
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  Speaker 2: are fairly straightforward, but Slavic spent a considerable amount of
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  Speaker 2: time explaining how their evidence proves the remaining three. Slavic
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  Speaker 2: broke down Combe's alleged criminal enterprise for the first time today.
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  Speaker 2: Slavic refers to Chief of staff Christina Korum as Comb's
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  Speaker 2: most loyal lieutenant, who knew what he was doing at
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  Speaker 2: all times and even responded to texts using his phone.
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  Speaker 2: Slavic says combs security guards d Rock Uncle Polly, Fahim
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  Speaker 2: Mohammed and Roger Bohuns were also major players who were
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  Speaker 2: at Comb's side for some of the most violent and
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  Speaker 2: threatening acts. Slavic finally mentions foot soldiers, young and eager
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  Speaker 2: assistants who never batted an eye when instructed to do
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  Speaker 2: something by Comb's korum or a security guard, even when
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  Speaker 2: it meant facilitating a crime. Slavic reminded the jury that
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  Speaker 2: they must only find that Combe's enterprise participated in two
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  Speaker 2: predicate acts or crimes for Combs to be guilty of racketeering.
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  Speaker 2: She goes down a long list of crimes they presented
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  Speaker 2: evidence of, giving an overview of the testimony associated with
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  Speaker 2: each drug distribution. Comb's assistants helped him obtain drugs which
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  Speaker 2: Combs then passed to others, including Jane and Cassie. Kidnapping,
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  Speaker 2: Combs forced Cassie Ventura to stay in a hotel while
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  Speaker 2: the injuries he caused healed. Colmbs made Capricorn Clark accompany
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  Speaker 2: him to kid Cuddy's house when he arrived at her
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  Speaker 2: apartment with the gun. Even prior to that, Comb's security
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  Speaker 2: guard held Clark against her will until she passed a polygraph,
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  Speaker 2: threatening to throw her in the East River if she failed.
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  Speaker 2: Arson Slavic asserts that while there is no direct evidence
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  Speaker 2: tying Combs to kid Cutty's car, bombing. It's no coincidence
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  Speaker 2: that Combs threatened to blow up the car and just
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks later the car was blown up. Bribery.
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  Speaker 2: Christina Korum helped Comb secure the deletion of the Intercontinental
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  Speaker 2: Hotel security footage, knowing he could be charged with assault
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  Speaker 2: if the footage was taken to law enforcement. Witness tampering,
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  Speaker 2: Combs worked with Christina Korum and security guard d Rock
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  Speaker 2: to try to get to Jane and former assistant Mia
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  Speaker 2: before law enforcement. Slavic finally argues that the alleged sex
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  Speaker 2: trafficking of Cassie and Jane can also be considered predicate acts.
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  Speaker 2: Slovic makes it absolutely clear that the jury only needs
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  Speaker 2: to determine if Jane and Cassie were coerced into participating
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  Speaker 2: in just one freak off or hotel night. Slavic acknowledges
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  Speaker 2: that both women agreed to try the arrangement at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of their relationships, and it's likely that not all
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  Speaker 2: of them were the product of force, fraud or coercion,
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  Speaker 2: but it's quite clear that some of them were. Slavic
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  Speaker 2: also points out that the law does not require Jane
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  Speaker 2: or Cassi to have explicitly said no to combs or
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  Speaker 2: try to escape to be sex trafficking victims. Today, the
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  Speaker 2: defense will have their turn for closing arguments. If their
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  Speaker 2: statement is anything like their case in chief, the jury
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  Speaker 2: may be deliberating this afternoon. Will Combe's fate be decided
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  Speaker 2: by this weekend? For Nancy and her expert panel's opinion,
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  Speaker 2: Meritt Street Media at seven and midnight Eastern, or listen
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  Speaker 2: on your favorite podcast app more crime and justice news
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  Speaker 2: after this. The FBI has announced a reward of up
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  Speaker 2: to ten thousand dollars for assistance in locating a California
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  Speaker 2: woman who vanished in January and is suspected to be
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  Speaker 2: a sex trafficking victim. Heaven Desiree McGee, twenty one, has
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  Speaker 2: been missing since January twentieth. Her mother last saw her
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  Speaker 2: on the seventeenth in Oakland. She was then seen in
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  Speaker 2: Stockton on January twentieth, and she also has ties to
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  Speaker 2: San Jose. Oakland. Detective Bradley's side says, we know that
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  Speaker 2: someone in the area saw something. Whatever the detail is,
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  Speaker 2: however small it is, could aid us in our investigation.
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  Speaker 2: According to the FBI, McGee has several distinctive tattoos. These
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  Speaker 2: include the words Aaron Pryor above a red rose located
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  Speaker 2: below her left collarbone, and unknown words above both her
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  Speaker 2: left and right collarbones. She also has at least four
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  Speaker 2: butterfly tattoos on her chest and sternum, possible Chinese characters
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  Speaker 2: on her left forearm just above her wrist, and the
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  Speaker 2: words Darius the Third on her right posterior forearm. McGee's
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  Speaker 2: mother spoke during an FBI in Oakland police press conference,
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  Speaker 2: vowing to never stop searching until McGee is found.
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  Speaker 1: Me and arrested. A family will be highly appreciative of
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  Speaker 1: the person who leads me to my daughter whereabouts. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening. I thank you for Karen. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to thank you in events for your time,
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  Speaker 1: your support, and your effort relevant to networking and locating
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  Speaker 1: my daughter. Once again, thank you to Oakland and the
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  Speaker 1: surroundings cities at large for all your help and regards
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  Speaker 1: to helping me find my baby. Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven McGee is African American five feet tall and weighs
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  Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty pounds. She has brown eyes
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  Speaker 2: and black hair, and was last seen in a white
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  Speaker 2: jacket in brown pants. Anyone with information should contact the
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  Speaker 2: FBI at one eight hundred two two five five three
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  Speaker 2: two four, or call Oakland Police at five one zero
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  Speaker 2: crime Alert, I'm Sydney Sumnerton.