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Security Guard Eddy Garcia Testifies in Explosive Diddy Trial · The Demia Avery Show

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  Hey, hey everybody. This is Deia Avery
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  of the Deia Avery Show. Thank you so
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  much for joining in. Today we got a
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  little diddy um update that you know
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  it's going to be part one and part two.
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  We're going to start off with Eddie
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  Garcia. He was the one of the security
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  guards at the Intercontinental Hotel.
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  So, um before we do, make sure you
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  and share. All right. So, I'm going to
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  read this kind of fast. Okay, so this is
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  courtesy of CNN. It says, "A
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  surveillance footage I'm not CNN. Oh my
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  goodness." Washington Post. Um,
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  surveillance footage of Shaun Diddy
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  Combmes attacking Cassie Ventur at the
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  Intercontinental Hotel in 2016 has been
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  shown several times at this trial. The
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  government introduced it during opening
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  statements along with Israel Flores, a
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  former security guard at the hotel who
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  responded to the incident.
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  The footage shown to jurors was the
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  surveillance video taken from the hotel,
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  which is not quite the same as the
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  footage CNN obtained last year. The CNN
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  footage was a cell phone recording of
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  the hotel surveillance footage. The
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  government is expected to call the video
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  expert Tuesday to explain the correct
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  sequent.
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  Col's lawyers are highly opposed to
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  showing this footage to jurors again,
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  uh, calling it unduly
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  prejuditial. It goes on to say the jury
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  finally, uh, take their seats and they,
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  um, the government calls his first
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  witness, which is Eddie Garcia. Uh,
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  Garcia, like I said, he's a 33year-old
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  private security worker. He worked at
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  the Intercontinental Hotel in 2016, the
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  year security footage captured Diddy
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  beating Cassie in the hallway.
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  Um, it says a hotel security worker
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  testified that Shaun Col's chief of
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  staff, Christina Cororum, came to the
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  Intercontinental and asked to see
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  surveillance footage on March 5th, 2016,
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  shortly after Combmes beat Cassie
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  Ventura. Eddie Garcia said Cororm first
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  asked for the video in a phone call and
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  was told she would need to get a
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  subpoena. When the when the Combmes
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  executive arrived at the hotel lobby,
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  Garcia testified she inquired again if
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  there was a way she could see it so Comb
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  staff could know what they were dealing
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  with. Garcia said he apologized to Corm
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  and insisted again that she need to get
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  a subpoena, but gave her a brief
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  description of the footage. He said it's
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  bad. Diddy report uh repeatedly tried to
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  obtain hotel security footage of him
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  beating his then girlfriend Cassie.
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  Security officer Eddie Garcia testified
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  and finally handed over tens of
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  thousands of dollars for the damning
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  video. Garcia said Combmes first called
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  him on the hotel security line after the
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  beating and nervously told him he had a
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  little too much to drink. He said,
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  "Colomes intimated that I knew how
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  things were with women and that one
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  thing leads to
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  another." The next time Garcia said
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  Combmes called his personal cell phone,
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  he stated that I sounded like a good
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  guy, that I sounded like I wanted to
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  help and help and something like this
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  could ruin him. Garcia told the jury. He
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  repeated that I sounded like a good guy
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  and I could help.
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  Garcia say initially told Garcia said he
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  he initially told Combmes that he did
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  not have access to the video but later
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  reached back out and said his boss was
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  willing to erase the footage for
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  $50,000. He later testified that Combmes
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  paid a total of
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  $100,000. Eddie, my angel, I knew you
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  could help. I knew you could help it.
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  and excited," Cololmes replied.
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  According to Garcia's testimony, the
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  next day he told the jury, Madrano
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  directed him to fudge the timestamps on
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  his shift logs and go to a high-rise in
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  Los Angeles where he met with Combmes.
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  "He was smiling, excited, just looked
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  happy," said Garcia, who added that his
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  own voice kept cracking with anxiety. He
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  said he personally handed a thumb drive
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  with the video to Combmes and assured
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  him it was the only
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  copy. It goes on to say when Eddie
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  Garcia met with Shawn Combmes to sell
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  him surveillance footage of Combmes
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  beating Cassie, the security officer
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  testified he told Combmes he worried
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  police would come looking for it if
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  Ventur filed a police report. Combmes
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  said, "I didn't have to worry about
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  that." Garcia told the jury, then put
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  him on the phone with a woman he
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  understood to be um
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  Ventura. Garcia said he overheard
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  Combmes tell her, "Let him know that you
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  want the video to go away, too." Ventura
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  told Garcia she had a movie coming out.
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  He told the jury it wasn't a good time
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  for this to come out and she wanted it
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  to go away. The guard said after Shawn
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  Combmes and Cassie told him they wanted
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  the security footage kept quiet, hotel
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  security worker Eddie Garcia testified
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  he signed a non-disclosure agreement,
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  averaging that the video did not exist
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  on any other servers and that he would
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  not divulge any details from the deal.
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  Garcia testified that Combmes also had
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  him text photos of the driver's license
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  as well as IDs for his boss and another
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  security officer who responded to the
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  incident so that they were all on the
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  same
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  page. After Garcia gave Shawn Combmes a
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  USB drive with the Intercontinental
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  Security footage and signed two
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  contracts, he testified. Combmes stepped
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  out of the room and returned with the
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  money with a money counting machine and
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  a brown paper bag. Garcia said Combmes
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  pulled bills out of the bag, ran
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  $100,000 through the counter, and handed
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  to handed it to him, warning him not to
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  make any big purchases.
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  Garcia, a guard at the hotel, testified
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  that he gave $50,000 of the money to his
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  supervisor who approved the deal with
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  Combmes. $20,000 to another guard
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  involved in the incident and kept
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  $30,000 for himself to buy used
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  vehicle. Prosecutors asked Eddie Garcia
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  why he was nervous around Shawn Combmes
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  while the two men allegedly struck a
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  deal to sell Comb security footage of
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  him beating Cassie. The hotel guard
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  began to explain his fear of the hip hop
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  mogul before a sharp objection uh from
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  the defense attorney halted the line of
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  questioning. Prosecutors are trying to
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  provide the jury with evidence that
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  supports racketeering charges which
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  includes making threats to extort
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  individuals and companies. The imagery
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  in this testimony is strong. Paper bags
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  filled with cash, bodyguards, money
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  counters, bands of cash, and ve
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  threats. All right. So, I'll be back
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  with my um second part. Oh, you know
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  what? I can I think I can go ahead and
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  just do the second part of this. Uh
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  defense attorney Brian Steels now
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  cross-examining Eddie Garcia. Um he
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  says, let's
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  see, Steel rose to fame. Oh, okay. They
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  talking about Steel's
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  uh Steel's credentials. Shawn Holmes
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  leaned over the defense table and looked
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  intently at a monitor on his lead
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  council's desk while the prosecution and
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  defense teams were in a sidebar
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  discussing with the judge. The monitor
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  contains a live transcript of the
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  proceedings, including sidebars, which
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  are drowned out by the white noise of
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  the rest of the court can hear.
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  Eddie Garcia's number was saved in the
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  phone of Shawn Combmes chief of staff,
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  Christina Cororm, misspelled as Eddie,
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  my angel. Garcia, a hotel security
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  worker who says Combmes pay him and his
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  colleagues
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  $100,000 for a video of Combmes beating
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  Cassie Ventur, testified that the music
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  producer repeatedly called him his angel
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  and told him God had put the two of them
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  together. But when Garcia asked Combmes
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  for help finding work after he handed
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  over the video, he testified Comolmes
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  did not respond to his Instagram
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  message. All right, guys. So, that is it
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  for uh part one of the video. See you on
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  the next one. Bye.