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CUFF-DADDY? Combs Arrested by Feds in lux Hotel, Taken Into Custody · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Cuff Daddy Shawncom's arrested by the Feds in a luxe
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Speaker 2: hotel in the dark of night, Now in federal custody.
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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: being with us today.
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Speaker 3: I'm announcing the unsealing of a three count indictment charging
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Speaker 3: Shawn Combs with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, interstate transportation for prostitution.
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Speaker 3: The indictment alleges that between at least two thousand and
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Speaker 3: eight and the present Comb's abuse threatened and coerce victims
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Speaker 3: to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal
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Speaker 3: his conduct. As a legend of the indictment, to carry
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Speaker 3: out this conduct, Shawn Combs led and participated in a
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Speaker 3: racketeering conspiracy that used the business empire he controlled to
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Speaker 3: carry out criminal activity including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery,
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Speaker 3: and the obstruction of justice.
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Speaker 2: And we have just gotten our hands on the federal indictment.
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Speaker 2: But first let's talk about what went down in the
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Speaker 2: dark of night. Sean Puffy Combs seen out on the
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Speaker 2: street in New York just thirty minutes before Fed's break
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Speaker 2: into his luxury suite at the Park Hyatt Hotel on
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Speaker 2: fifty seventh Street and arrest Combs and proceed to shred
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Speaker 2: that hotel room looking for evidence. Joining me right now
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Speaker 2: at the hotel just outside the Park Hyatt is crimeonline
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Speaker 2: dot Com investigative reporter Angelica Martinez. Angelica, thank you for
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Speaker 2: being with us. Tell me what happened right there last night.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Nancy, we are currently outside the high end hotel,
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Speaker 4: the Park Hyatt Hotel, where Sean.
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Speaker 5: Puffy Combs was arrested last night. He was arrested.
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Speaker 4: Following a indictment that was turned by a grand jury
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Speaker 4: on Monday, and that's set in the process to arrest
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Speaker 4: Sean Combe.
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Speaker 2: Guys joining us a Jelica Martinez at the Park Hyatt,
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Speaker 2: we understand that Fed's pursue it to warrant, went into Combs'
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Speaker 2: room right behind you, up on one of the penthouse
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Speaker 2: levels and arrested comes last night. He had no idea
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Speaker 2: it was about to happen. We've also heard reports the
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Speaker 2: arrest was to go down at least forty eight if
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Speaker 2: seventy two hours later, but something triggered the FEDS to
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Speaker 2: make the arrest last night. Comb's actually spotted out on
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Speaker 2: the street and videoed bsing with fans and friends just before,
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Speaker 2: literally minutes before.
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Speaker 1: The FEDS arrested him.
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Speaker 2: I know they were poised outside the park Hyatt Hotel
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Speaker 2: where you're standing right now, Angelica, waiting for him to
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Speaker 2: come back in with eyes on Sean Puffy comes the
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Speaker 2: entire evening, Angelica.
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Speaker 4: Yes, So apparently goociations for shawcom Surrender had been in
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Speaker 4: the talks for a while, and like you said, Nancy,
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Speaker 4: something triggered this arrest. Something happened that caused them to
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Speaker 4: move it from allegedly later in this week to just
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Speaker 4: last night. He was allegedly arrested right in the lobby,
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Speaker 4: and he was not expecting that, according to some.
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Speaker 2: Sources, Angelica, I think I know what may have prompted
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Speaker 2: the early arrest. You know, you're about twenty thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: from Teeterborough private airstrip.
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Speaker 1: Combs has money.
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Speaker 2: You can get on a private plane without a passport
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Speaker 2: now where you can land without one as a whole
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Speaker 2: another can of worms. But if they got win that
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Speaker 2: he was leaving with all of his money and access
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Speaker 2: to private planes, that's the time you make the arrest
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Speaker 2: ahead of time, joining me there at the Park Heyatt
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Speaker 2: Hotel in the heart of Manhattan, Angelica Martinez, let's open
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Speaker 2: it up to the panel and the last few moments,
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Speaker 2: we caught the lawyer, the defense attorney Agna Fellow, and
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Speaker 2: he states his client is going to be released. Do
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Speaker 2: you really believe that Sean Puffy Combs is going to
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Speaker 2: get out on bond?
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Speaker 1: Straight out to high profile.
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Speaker 2: Lawyer Nima Romani, former federal prosecutor, President West Coast Trial
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Speaker 2: Lawyers and author of Harvard to hashtag. He is an
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Speaker 2: expert in federal law. Nima, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Quick question regarding bond. Now we know that Combs was
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Speaker 2: held overnight and he is with the Feds right now.
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Speaker 1: You know his lawyer is.
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Speaker 2: Going to make a big play for him to get
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Speaker 2: out on bond and make a big show, probably walking
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Speaker 2: along Park Avenue maybe Fifth Avenue, wearing his fur coat
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Speaker 2: as if he has a worry in the world. Why
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Speaker 2: do I say that, because when you don't know a horse, Nima,
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Speaker 2: look at his track record that has been his inmost.
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Speaker 1: Since the get go. Hey, you're raiding my house, no problem.
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Speaker 2: I'm out surfing watersports with my family living it up
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Speaker 2: with some champagne.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's him.
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Speaker 2: That's his INMO to act like nothing is wrong and
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Speaker 2: give the illusion of complete innocence and care free.
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Speaker 1: Do you think they're gonna give him bond?
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Speaker 6: Nancy's really up to the judge. I don't think he
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Speaker 6: deserves bond, because we're talking about some very serious charges, right,
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Speaker 6: and bond is appropriate when an individual is not a
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Speaker 6: risk of flight or a danger to the community, and
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Speaker 6: like you said, he's both. We're talking about someone that's
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Speaker 6: engaged in violence, drug offenses, sex offenses, firearms allegations. There.
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Speaker 6: This is someone who's violent, and of course he is
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Speaker 6: essentially unlimited means and can take off. Now, there's going
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Speaker 6: to be detention hearing, usually within three court days of
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Speaker 6: the first appearance, and a judge is going to have
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Speaker 6: to decide whether there's no condition or combination of conditions
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Speaker 6: that can guarantee Diddy's appearance in court. I think, even
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Speaker 6: though I disagree, if you put a gun to my head,
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Speaker 6: I think he is going to be granted some sort
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Speaker 6: of bond, even though I don't think he deserves it.
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Speaker 2: Nima Ramani, if it were anybody but Sean Puffy comes,
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Speaker 2: they would not get bond because.
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Speaker 1: This is a huge federal indictment.
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Speaker 6: You're a FED.
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Speaker 1: I was a FED.
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Speaker 2: You know how long it's taken them to put this
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Speaker 2: thing together. All it takes is one private flight to
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Speaker 2: another country.
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Speaker 1: He's gone.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, we've never been able to get Roman
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Speaker 2: Polansky back, and many many others we see ours. Think
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Speaker 2: of Kanye, for Pete's sake, who records in Paris. He
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Speaker 2: doesn't need to be in the US. This indictment shows
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Speaker 2: a vast criminal enterprise. What are we learning. We're learning
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Speaker 2: that there are co conspirators. But I want to tell you,
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Speaker 2: Nima and the rest of the panel, listen to this.
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Speaker 2: In the very beginning and the very first line. For decades,
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Speaker 2: the defendant abused, threatening, coerced women and others around him
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Speaker 2: to fulfill sex desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.
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Speaker 1: And that is exactly what he's been doing.
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Speaker 2: Straight back out on the street, joining us in front
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Speaker 2: of the park Hyatt Hotel. Crimeonline dot Com investigative reporter
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Speaker 2: Angelica Martinez Angelica as late as last night, thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: before he is arrested by the Feds, he's out like
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Speaker 2: he doesn't have a care in the world, bsing, playing
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Speaker 2: around on the streets with his cohorts. So that's his
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Speaker 2: mo He always has the facade, the veneer of successful
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Speaker 2: rap mogul billionaire out on yachts, living it up, dripping
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Speaker 2: in furs and diamonds. But that's the way he portrays himself,
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Speaker 2: and right here in the federal indictment we see that's
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Speaker 2: part of his modus operendi, forcing others to fulfill his
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Speaker 2: sex desires, in other words, raping them while protecting his
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Speaker 2: reputation and concealing his conduct.
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Speaker 1: Angelica.
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Speaker 5: So he did. He definitely has a history of this.
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Speaker 4: If we look back to when his La and Miami
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Speaker 4: homes were rated back in March, he did. He was
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Speaker 4: out living his life in Miami with not a care
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Speaker 4: in the world, taking pictures with fans and you know,
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Speaker 4: posing for Instagram lives, and so that's definitely part of
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Speaker 4: the persona he has tried to keep up and has
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Speaker 4: done so successfully for.
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Speaker 5: These past couple of decades. You know, he did.
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Speaker 4: He was the guy you wanted to be around, you
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Speaker 4: wanted to have parties with, get invited to his you know, luxurious,
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Speaker 4: amazing white parties. As we heard from the latest lawsuit
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Speaker 4: from Adria English, who was one of those participants in
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Speaker 4: the White parties. So you know, he spent the night
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Speaker 4: in federal custody, which is quite the contrast from this
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Speaker 4: very luxurious Highatt hotel we have behind me and you know,
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Speaker 4: as you said, in the heart of Manhattan.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, very very interesting stuff going down with he.
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Speaker 2: Did he You know, the indictment is naming cohorts, but
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Speaker 2: who will they end up being. It gives veiled references
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Speaker 2: to security guards, seven other businesses, employees that worked for
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Speaker 2: Comes and enabled him to basically run a sex trafficking enterprise.
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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Rico racketeering. It was first reserved
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Speaker 2: for the mob. The mob, This is what it means.
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Speaker 2: Let me break it down, jump in with me, Nima Romani. First,
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Speaker 2: you have a predicate act. That can be a rape,
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Speaker 2: It can be a murder of Chupac Sukure, it can
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Speaker 2: be any number of state crimes. But that predicate acts
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Speaker 2: like the center of a big spider web. And there
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Speaker 2: are other people helping you enlist sex victims to enlist
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Speaker 2: in further your criminal enterprise. That is how the fans
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Speaker 2: are going to bring in other witnesses as defendants and
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Speaker 2: in the end, Ramani, they are going to rap out comes.
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Speaker 1: Agree, disagree?
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Speaker 6: Oh agree? Because when you're dealing with a Rico conspiracy,
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Speaker 6: anyone who participates in the conspiracy, they're on the hook
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Speaker 6: for all the substantive acts and further into the conspiracy.
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Speaker 6: So what does that mean someone called or help to
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Speaker 6: get one of these commercial sex workers and they're raped
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Speaker 6: by force, They're on the hook even if they didn't
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Speaker 6: participate in the rape. So the Feds have a lot
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Speaker 6: of leverage in these reco cases. And like you said,
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Speaker 6: you don't need a whole lot to prove Rico. You
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Speaker 6: don't need a mob or the carteler shriekings, you need
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Speaker 6: a criminal enterprise.
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Speaker 1: Ramone.
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Speaker 2: We just got our hands on this very lengthy federal
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Speaker 2: indemond and you know, the de Feds go, the fans
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Speaker 2: go whole hog. They're not going to charge you one
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Speaker 2: or two counts. I'd like to direct your attention to
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Speaker 2: paragraph twelve A Combs and other members and associates of
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Speaker 2: Comb's enterprise. There's your witnesses right there, wielded power and
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Speaker 2: prestige and would have repeat freak offs. Freak offs, the fez.
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Speaker 2: Their words, not mine. They were elaborate and produced sex
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Speaker 2: performances that Combs himself arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often
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Speaker 2: electronically recorded.
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Speaker 1: A freak off in arranging them.
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Speaker 2: Combs, listen, Here's the witnesses with the assistants and members
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Speaker 2: and associates of Comb's enterprise. Here's the crime transported caused
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Speaker 2: to be transported sex workers across state lines and internationally.
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Speaker 2: They occurred regularly, sometimes lasted multiple days, involved multiple commercial
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Speaker 2: sex workers, and during the free coughs.
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Speaker 1: That's just a nice word.
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Speaker 2: That's just a nice phrase for forcing women to be
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Speaker 2: videoed while they're being raped. During their free coughs, Combs
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Speaker 2: distributed drugs to victims to keep them obedient and compliant. Sometimes,
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Speaker 2: unbeknownst to the victims, Combs kept videos filmed of victims
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Speaker 2: in sex acts with sex workers.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear that?
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Speaker 2: That's exactly Nema Romani what Cassie Venturis said in her lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: Then he would force her to complete sex acts.
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Speaker 1: With sex workers, and he would video it.
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Speaker 2: After freak offs, Combs and victims got IV fluids to
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Speaker 2: recover from all the drug use and physical exertion. Can
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Speaker 2: you hear what I'm saying, Romani? Can you hear the
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Speaker 2: freak coughs I do? This is all consistent with what
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Speaker 2: Cassie told us almost.
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Speaker 6: A year ago in November. She was forced to have
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Speaker 6: sex with these sex workers? Did he recorded it? So
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Speaker 6: there's gonna be a treasure trove of evidence. And if
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Speaker 6: you look at that indictment, they recovered one thousand bottles
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Speaker 6: of baby oil, Nancy, one thousand that were used in
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Speaker 6: these sex acts. So these are women who were brought
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Speaker 6: and sometimes men, and they were forced to commit sex.
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Speaker 1: Name of Ramani.
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Speaker 2: You know what, didn't you go to Harvard? I did
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Speaker 2: your instructor at Harvard? Did you ever imagine that you
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Speaker 2: would be right here right now with me talking about.
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Speaker 1: A billionaires many?
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Speaker 2: How many bottles of baby oil did he have for
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Speaker 2: his free coughs?
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Speaker 6: How many more than a thousand? Nancy? I never thought
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Speaker 6: when I graduated Harvard Law School at age twenty two,
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Speaker 6: I would be talking about did he rolling around in
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Speaker 6: baby oil with commercial sex workers? So the answer to
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Speaker 6: that is no, me either.
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Speaker 2: But this is just a tiny tape of what we're
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Speaker 2: getting right here. And I'll tell you what I think,
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Speaker 2: Ramani and the Feds are not gonna like it, but
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Speaker 2: they were facing the prospect of being a toothless tiger,
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Speaker 2: a house cat. They had Kazi Ventura, and a video
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Speaker 2: leaked of him beating her, kicking her, dragging her up
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Speaker 2: and down the halls of a hotel.
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Speaker 1: On video, a grown man.
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Speaker 2: Out in the hall wearing nothing but a towel, beating
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Speaker 2: her viciously and dragging her back to his hotel room
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Speaker 2: to do what, rape her, that's my allegation. And they
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Speaker 2: were doing nothing. There was a stream of people saying,
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Speaker 2: he raped me, he made me have sex with sex workers,
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Speaker 2: he videoed it. There's the Tupac Secure Cloud murder hanging
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Speaker 2: over him. So what were the FEDS going to do?
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Speaker 2: Sit back and twiddle their thumbs. No, they had to act.
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Speaker 6: Ramani Well, of course that to act. We've all seen
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Speaker 6: that video of Diddy beating Cassie in twenty sixteen, and
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Speaker 6: you know, when you're talking about Rico, there's a ten
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Speaker 6: year window for those credited acts. So that window was.
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Speaker 2: Coming up two thousand and sixteen, Ramani twenty sixteen, nearly
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Speaker 2: ten years ago. They had to act or else hang
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Speaker 2: their head in shame.
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Speaker 1: Nima.
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Speaker 6: They did, and their window was closing. Man, see if
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Speaker 6: they didn't file this, and we were asking why did
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Speaker 6: it take six months? If they didn't file all of
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Speaker 6: a sudden, some of these counts they can fall off
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Speaker 6: because of the statute of limitation, So the Feds had
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Speaker 6: to finally act. There was a lot of pressure on them.
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Speaker 6: Victim after victim was coming forward. We're talking about the
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Speaker 6: eight or nine different lawsuits on this show. So the
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Speaker 6: question I have is why did it take so long?
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Speaker 6: Better late than ever, but justice delayed is justice denied.
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Speaker 6: So I'm glad the victims are going to finally have
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Speaker 6: their day in criminal court, although this of course will
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Speaker 6: put all those civil lawsuits on hold.
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Speaker 3: Alleged Combs use force, threats of force encasion to cause
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Speaker 3: victims to engage in extended sexual performances with male commercial
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Speaker 3: sex workers, some of whom he transported or caused to
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Speaker 3: be transported over state lines. Combs allegedly planned and controlled
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Speaker 3: the sex performances, which he called freak offs, and he
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Speaker 3: often electronically recorded them.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Sean Puffy Combs in custody in federal custody after being
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Speaker 2: arrested last night at the Park Hyatt Luxury Hotel, fifty
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Speaker 2: seventh Street, Manhattan. Now, the Feds seemingly had planned to
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Speaker 2: take Combs into custody at a later date, but something
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Speaker 2: triggered them to act last night, and then they totally
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Speaker 2: shredded his hotel room looking for evidence, joining.
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Speaker 1: Me an all star panel.
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Speaker 2: But we caught up with his lawyer, Agnafello, and this
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Speaker 2: is what he has to say.
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Speaker 7: He came to New York to basically engage the court
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Speaker 7: system and start the case, and it'll start today and
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Speaker 7: he's gonna plead not guilty. Obviously, he's going to fight
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Speaker 7: this with all of his energy and all of his
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Speaker 7: might and the full confidence.
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Speaker 6: Of his lawyers.
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Speaker 7: And I expect a long battle with a good result
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Speaker 7: for mister Commerson.
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Speaker 1: So kill really if you.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to fight like hell to get him released.
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Speaker 7: And he should be released with all that he's done
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Speaker 7: and coming here voluntarily. And guys, I'm going to cut
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Speaker 7: it short because I have to.
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Speaker 2: Go in all right, he should be released because of
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Speaker 2: all he's done. He should stay behind bars because all
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Speaker 2: he has done. I'm guaranteeing you if this were not
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Speaker 2: a wealthy billionaire and famous person, there would be no
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Speaker 2: chance in h double l that he would be released
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Speaker 2: on bond. I mean Lynn Shaw is joining me Founder
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Speaker 2: executive director Lynz Warriors, committed to ending sex trafficking.
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Speaker 1: Lynn Shaw. It's easy to get.
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Speaker 2: Sucked in, not me, but for many people, to get
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Speaker 2: sucked into Shawn Comes' lifestyle, his rolls, Royce's, his mansions,
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Speaker 2: his diamond rings, his fur.
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Speaker 1: Coats, his luxurious lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: You know what, the devil can wear a tuxedo and
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Speaker 2: fit right in at the symphony.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: But until you have seen what happens to sex trafficking victims,
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Speaker 2: it changes everything.
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Speaker 1: It changes the way you.
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Speaker 2: Look at abusers allegedly like Shawn Comes, explain what these
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Speaker 2: women go through.
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Speaker 8: First of all, I am disgusted and very angry, Nancy.
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Speaker 8: You know they say a picture is worth a thousand words,
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Speaker 8: But in New York City, if you have a nickname,
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Speaker 8: a street name, which.
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Speaker 1: He did, and it was pimp Daddy. Let me repeat that,
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Speaker 1: pimp Daddy.
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Speaker 8: I am angry because the focus now, of course, is
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Speaker 8: all on him. They should lock him up and throw
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Speaker 8: away the keys to show all the victims and survivors
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Speaker 8: of sex trafficking that this is happening that this thug
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Speaker 8: is being held accountable, because if they let him out,
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Speaker 8: we will not We still have think about all the
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Speaker 8: women who have not come forward. How about all the
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Speaker 8: girls that were teenagers. Nobody's talking about that yet, that
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Speaker 8: are afraid to come forward. Now, women, I want to
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Speaker 8: remind you, I started out of college in the music business.
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Speaker 8: I have always heard from girls and women about this
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Speaker 8: whole criminal cartel going up through the hip hop then
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Speaker 8: becoming rap and Pimp Daddy that is what they called
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Speaker 8: him ten years ago. What has taken so long? So
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Speaker 8: I want to remind everybody. Although this is all going
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Speaker 8: on and it is a great day here in New
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Speaker 8: York City, we must focus on our survivors. I want
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Speaker 8: them to get equal attention. I want them to have
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Speaker 8: voices because lives have been ruined healthcare, their bodies have
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Speaker 8: been ruined, their minds have been ruined, and they feel
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Speaker 8: like they have nobody to turn to. There aren't the resources.
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Speaker 8: So if we show Pimp Daddy, by example, is going
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Speaker 8: to be locked up, You're going to see a lot
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Speaker 8: more women come forward. Talk about this. And as I'm
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Speaker 8: sitting here, I'm getting texts from people we told you,
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Speaker 8: we told you, we told you that have been affiliated
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Speaker 8: with him or the music business over the years. So
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Speaker 8: I say, let us use this as an example. Let's
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Speaker 8: get through this, lock them up, and then talk about
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Speaker 8: what we can do to support survivors.
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Speaker 2: Nama Romani, she's right, but how are we going to
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Speaker 2: do it? Taking a look at the indictment, give me
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Speaker 2: your breakdown on the charges, Nama Romani, Well, we're.
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Speaker 6: Three sets of charges. We have a rico conspiracy. That's
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Speaker 6: that racketeering, and it's the unlawful agreement to commit two
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Speaker 6: a more predicate acts and further into that conspiracy. So
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Speaker 6: we got assault, we got drug trafficking, we got sex trafficked.
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Speaker 6: We even have arson, nancy, bribery, intimidation of witnesses, so
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Speaker 6: a lot going on with that reco charge. Then we
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Speaker 6: have the two substantive counts. There's the sex trafficking across
21:10
Speaker 6: state lines. That's that federal hook. And you know, sex
21:14
Speaker 6: between consenting adults isn't illegal, but if there's fraud, force,
21:18
Speaker 6: or coercion it is, then it becomes rape. Then it
21:21
Speaker 6: becomes trafficking. So that's that allegation. And then we have
21:24
Speaker 6: prostitution across state lines. So money is paid. Again, that's
21:28
Speaker 6: that federal jurisdiction.
21:30
Speaker 2: Naima, talking of money when you refer to money being
21:34
Speaker 2: paid in furtherance of the criminal enterprise.
21:36
Speaker 1: And paragraph four.
21:38
Speaker 2: It directly names the Cassi Ventia video and it describes
21:45
Speaker 2: it says a woman, but it says comes dragkick and
21:48
Speaker 2: through a vase at a woman as she was attempting
21:50
Speaker 2: to leave, and when a member of hotel security intervene
21:54
Speaker 2: and tried to stop him, he tried to bribe the
21:57
Speaker 2: staff member to ensure violence. Okay, I mean to ensure silence.
22:02
Speaker 2: That goes hand in hand with what you're saying, Nima.
22:05
Speaker 6: Well it does. And we know that he paid tens
22:07
Speaker 6: of thousands of dollars for that video. What he didn't
22:09
Speaker 6: know is the hotel staff maintained a copy and CNN
22:13
Speaker 6: got a hold of that video. So this is just
22:16
Speaker 6: part of the pattern. And even after the raids of
22:19
Speaker 6: his Miami and Los Angeles homes, there's phone calls reporterly
22:22
Speaker 6: where Diddy is trying to bribe and dissuade witnesses. So
22:26
Speaker 6: there's two ways he does it. Apparently, if you look
22:28
Speaker 6: at allegations, he tries to pay them off, and we
22:30
Speaker 6: know a lot of them have filed civil lawsits and
22:32
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if he's trying to buy their silence.
22:35
Speaker 6: And the other is, of course the force. Right you
22:38
Speaker 6: look at the indictment. He has three AR fifteen's with
22:41
Speaker 6: obliterated serial numbers, lots of guns, there's beatings, there's threats.
22:46
Speaker 6: So Diddy is going to do everything he can to
22:49
Speaker 6: prevent these witnesses and victims from testifying a trial.
22:52
Speaker 2: Hey, Nima, it's really hard for anybody to be a
22:55
Speaker 2: gun charge because all the states got a show is
22:58
Speaker 2: it's an illegal weapon with the numbers, the serial numbers
23:02
Speaker 2: scratched off, and it's in your possession. That's it. That
23:05
Speaker 2: is a federal gun charge. It's really hard to beat that.
23:08
Speaker 2: But Nima and Romani in here we see in the
23:12
Speaker 2: indictment that we've just gotten, we managed to get ahead,
23:15
Speaker 2: get it before it was read in court. The Feds
23:19
Speaker 2: are so smart, Nima. Have you ever seen fishers fisher
23:23
Speaker 2: people use not just a rod and real but a net.
23:28
Speaker 2: That's what they've got here, Nima. And if you could
23:31
Speaker 2: explain as a FED, a former FED, they talk about
23:36
Speaker 2: security staff, employees, staff domestic people, all sorts of administrative
23:44
Speaker 2: employees that helped and enabled Combs. And what they're doing
23:49
Speaker 2: is they're throwing out a net and by doing this
23:52
Speaker 2: they can catch all of them as unnamed co conspirators.
23:56
Speaker 2: Explain the significance of what they have very wisely done
24:00
Speaker 2: in this indictment.
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Speaker 6: So and in indictment that alleged conspiracy requires an unlawful
24:06
Speaker 6: agreement between two or more people. But you don't I
24:08
Speaker 6: have to charge the two or more people. They can
24:10
Speaker 6: be unindicted co conspirators, which means that they're named or
24:14
Speaker 6: not and they're not charged. But any good lawyer knows
24:17
Speaker 6: that they can be charged and they can be on
24:20
Speaker 6: the hook for all this. And talking about the freak ASTs.
24:23
Speaker 6: If you read the indictment, there's a lot of materials
24:26
Speaker 6: in it. They need bedsheets, they talked about the baby oil.
24:28
Speaker 6: They need the drugs, they need the Ivyes, they need
24:30
Speaker 6: the lighting, they need the cameras. So these individuals that
24:34
Speaker 6: were part of Diddy's circle, they provided all of this, Yes,
24:39
Speaker 6: as the indictment alleges.
24:40
Speaker 3: In late twenty twenty three, after public allegations were made
24:44
Speaker 3: about Combs's crimes, he and others pressured witnesses and victims
24:48
Speaker 3: to stay silent, including by making phone calls to witnesses
24:52
Speaker 3: and victims and giving them a false narrative of what
24:55
Speaker 3: they had experienced.
24:56
Speaker 1: Sean Puppy Combs in federal custody.
24:59
Speaker 2: He was arrested last night the cover of darkness at
25:02
Speaker 2: the Park Hyatt Hotel downtown Manhattan, fifty seventh Street. The
25:07
Speaker 2: arrest was sooner than the Feds had anticipated. Something triggered
25:11
Speaker 2: them to have the arrest go down immediately. And I
25:15
Speaker 2: can guarantee you as Combs was filmed out on the street,
25:21
Speaker 2: bsing with his friends, cohorts and fans, the FEDS had
25:25
Speaker 2: eyes on him until he went back in that hotel.
25:28
Speaker 2: How do I know that, Because if we saw a
25:32
Speaker 2: video of him and he was out on the street
25:35
Speaker 2: thirty minutes later the arrest goes down, all those Feds
25:39
Speaker 2: were in place in case things went sideways.
25:42
Speaker 1: We know Shampa he.
25:44
Speaker 2: Combs had multiple firearms, many of them illegal, And when
25:49
Speaker 2: you're making an.
25:50
Speaker 1: Arrest, you never know what's going to go wrong.
25:53
Speaker 2: I mean Chris mcdunn and joining me, Director Cold Case's Foundation,
25:57
Speaker 2: former homicide detective, over three hundred homicide investigation Center's belt.
26:01
Speaker 2: You and I have been on many arrayed and many
26:05
Speaker 2: an arrest, and when that happens, you don't know what
26:10
Speaker 2: idiot's going to grab a gun and start shooting Chris.
26:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a very high risk situation, Nancy.
26:16
Speaker 10: And in a scenario like this where you have an
26:19
Speaker 10: individual who is basically what we would call an anger
26:23
Speaker 10: retaliatory predator, he is capable of anything.
26:28
Speaker 9: And so the FEDS were probably way on top of this.
26:32
Speaker 11: With either what they call a T three weren't where
26:35
Speaker 11: they're sitting in a box somewhere and listening to all
26:38
Speaker 11: of the conversations going on, especially with something this higher profile,
26:42
Speaker 11: or they had a criminal informant in the game and
26:46
Speaker 11: somebody tipped off something that puts put this whole thing
26:50
Speaker 11: into motion.
26:50
Speaker 2: You know. Another issue, and what I'm saying about the
26:53
Speaker 2: fans being ready locked and loaded eyes on Diddy, I
26:59
Speaker 2: guarantee they were watching him for hours and hours before
27:03
Speaker 2: they finally moved in and had agents in place in
27:06
Speaker 2: the fire stairwell and undercover in the lobby for real
27:12
Speaker 2: with the earphones in their ear Describe me here he comes,
27:16
Speaker 2: He's going to go on the elevator, He's coming up.
27:18
Speaker 2: Everything was synchronized and perfectly orchestrated to ensure or try
27:24
Speaker 2: to ensure that no one got hurt.
27:27
Speaker 1: Diddy surprised.
27:29
Speaker 2: He did not think this was happening, and he is
27:31
Speaker 2: in federal custody right now. He just saw his lawyer Agnafello,
27:35
Speaker 2: who vows to get him out on bond.
27:37
Speaker 1: Will that happen?
27:38
Speaker 2: Joining me an all star panel including Chris McDonald, Lin Shaw,
27:41
Speaker 2: and Jelica Martinez outside Park Hyatt. But I want to
27:45
Speaker 2: go now to Anima Romani, former fed now trial lawyer,
27:49
Speaker 2: Kelly Hyman joining us, a trial lawyer out of Miami,
27:54
Speaker 2: host of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Once Upon
27:57
Speaker 2: of Crime in Hollywood. Kelly, thank you for being with us.
28:00
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about the indictment. In
28:03
Speaker 2: paragraph four, we see a direct reference to the Cassie
28:08
Speaker 2: venturup video where he's dragging her and beating her and
28:11
Speaker 2: kicking her in that luxury hotel, throwing.
28:16
Speaker 1: A vase at her, goes on and on and on.
28:19
Speaker 2: But in paragraph five we see him being described as
28:25
Speaker 2: facilitating and using his business, Combs business, to cover up
28:31
Speaker 2: his abuse and commercial sex.
28:34
Speaker 1: It goes on to discuss.
28:37
Speaker 2: What I believe are going to be unnamed co conspirators
28:40
Speaker 2: or at the very least witnesses, security staff, household staff,
28:44
Speaker 2: personal assistance. And I'm reading from paragraph ten right now,
28:48
Speaker 2: high ranking supervisors and other close associates of Combs. That
28:54
Speaker 2: could be anybody, as Nima Romani and I were just talking,
28:59
Speaker 2: that could be the I who set up the lighting
29:01
Speaker 2: for his freak.
29:04
Speaker 1: Freakouts.
29:05
Speaker 2: And what the free costs are is comes forcing women
29:11
Speaker 2: to engage in sex acts with paid sex workers on video,
29:18
Speaker 2: basically being raped on video by some sex worker that
29:22
Speaker 2: you have flown in. We also know that he would
29:28
Speaker 2: give the victims drugs, sometimes they didn't even know they
29:31
Speaker 2: were drugged, and even at selige threatened them with guns.
29:36
Speaker 2: The whole time Combs would be watching the free cough
29:40
Speaker 2: and or masturbating. My legal point is that they've named
29:45
Speaker 2: all these people security staff, household staff, personal assistance, supervisors,
29:50
Speaker 2: other associates of.
29:52
Speaker 1: Sean Puffy Combs.
29:54
Speaker 2: That's the very wide net from which to catch other
29:58
Speaker 2: co defendants.
30:00
Speaker 1: Kelly.
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Speaker 12: These are serious allegations, Nancy, and it's also important to
30:04
Speaker 12: remember the fact that he is the only one listed
30:08
Speaker 12: in this indictment.
30:09
Speaker 6: So what does that mean that.
30:11
Speaker 12: Potentially means the fact that the other people, whether it's
30:14
Speaker 12: people that work for him, are cooperating with the federal government,
30:18
Speaker 12: cooperating and giving information to let them know exactly what
30:22
Speaker 12: happened and what transpires as well.
30:25
Speaker 13: But it could also mean that there are co conspirators
30:28
Speaker 13: could potentially also be charged as well. So these are
30:33
Speaker 13: serious allegations. Now what this means is the grand jury listen.
30:37
Speaker 12: To evidence and based on the evidence presented to the
30:40
Speaker 12: grand jury, they believe that there was some serious crimes
30:44
Speaker 12: and now he is going to go to trial and
30:47
Speaker 12: ultimately the jurors of his peers will make a determination
30:50
Speaker 12: whether or not to find him guilty of these charges.
30:54
Speaker 9: We are not done.
30:55
Speaker 3: This investigation is ongoing, and I encourage anyone with information
30:59
Speaker 3: about this case to come forward and to do it quickly.
31:03
Speaker 3: Anyone with information can call one eight seven seven for
31:08
Speaker 3: HSI KIP.
31:15
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace joining me.
31:22
Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Sidney, this
31:26
Speaker 2: guy's got a rap sheet as long as I seventy five.
31:31
Speaker 1: For over and over he was tied to.
31:34
Speaker 2: For instance, he was tied to a deadly stampede and
31:37
Speaker 2: Harlem ninety one, accused of sex assault after a date
31:42
Speaker 2: arrested with Jennifer Lopez. Remember that the shootout at a club,
31:46
Speaker 2: accused of swinging a kettle ball at a UCLA coach
31:50
Speaker 2: That was in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Then, I mean, I don't have to even name it all.
31:54
Speaker 1: There's so much.
31:56
Speaker 2: Somehow he has escaped hard jail time, Sidney Sumner, So
32:00
Speaker 2: what is he looking at?
32:01
Speaker 1: Now? Tell me what you.
32:03
Speaker 2: Know about the arrest last night and the charges now pending.
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Speaker 14: Well, Nancy, these are very serious charges. We have those
32:09
Speaker 14: three counts that racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud
32:14
Speaker 14: or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. These are
32:19
Speaker 14: not charges that will be taken lightly. And not to
32:22
Speaker 14: mention all the other things mentioned in this indictment, narcotics, offensive, kidnapping, arson, bribery,
32:28
Speaker 14: and obstruction of justice. What's interesting to me those kidnapping
32:33
Speaker 14: and arson claims. That kidnapping, we've seen that in several
32:37
Speaker 14: of these lawsuits, the latest by Don Richard claiming that
32:43
Speaker 14: Diddy locked her in a car for hours and left
32:46
Speaker 14: her there. Her father had to travel from New Jersey
32:50
Speaker 14: to New York to get her out of that car.
32:53
Speaker 14: When confronted, Combs basically threatened her father, saying do you
32:57
Speaker 14: want to ruin your daughter's music career? And the arson
33:00
Speaker 14: we learned about that in Cassie Ventura's lawsuit. She claimed
33:04
Speaker 14: that Diddy blew up Kid Cutty's car when she dated.
33:09
Speaker 6: Him for just a couple of dates.
33:11
Speaker 14: So we have seen a lot of this and we
33:13
Speaker 14: know that his staff is helping him.
33:15
Speaker 1: Accomplish all of these crimes.
33:18
Speaker 14: So I don't think the Feds are going to let
33:21
Speaker 14: Diddy off easy this time.
33:23
Speaker 2: Chris McDonald, let me direct you to page seven of
33:27
Speaker 2: the indictment come subjected victims to physical, emotional verbal abuse.
33:34
Speaker 1: You know we were talking.
33:36
Speaker 2: With Niema about the baby oil. Well, now we know
33:40
Speaker 2: what all had been found doing the search of that
33:45
Speaker 2: Miami mansion, I mean his mansion that was then put
33:49
Speaker 2: up for sale, monitoring devices, lighting, fresh sheets, drugs, extra linens, lubricants,
34:01
Speaker 2: the lighting for the freak offs, the people who would pay,
34:06
Speaker 2: the clean hotel rooms after the freak COFs trying to
34:10
Speaker 2: paying to mitigate room damage, arranging for travel for victims,
34:16
Speaker 2: for commercial sex workers.
34:19
Speaker 1: I mean, it goes on and on and on.
34:21
Speaker 2: That's what they were looking for at his mansion when
34:26
Speaker 2: they rated it. These free coffs would occur often in
34:29
Speaker 2: hotel rooms, and that's why they're getting all that information.
34:34
Speaker 2: You know, we were asking, we were wondering opining the
34:37
Speaker 2: other day, why do they want all the names of
34:40
Speaker 2: the people that were in the hotel visiting the hotel
34:43
Speaker 2: room with Sean Colmes. Why don't we want their room
34:45
Speaker 2: service orders? Why do we want to know who was
34:48
Speaker 2: working that day, what cars they use, what tag numbers
34:51
Speaker 2: they gave?
34:52
Speaker 1: Now we know why?
34:54
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean all of that evidence, you know, enabling
34:58
Speaker 9: this conspiracy of sex trafficking, etc. You know, Nancy, you know,
35:04
Speaker 9: early in my career from eighty four to eighty six,
35:06
Speaker 9: I was a vice investigator and I worked undercover with
35:10
Speaker 9: the most vulnerable personalities. You know that we're out on
35:14
Speaker 9: the street. This guy, you know, the doc centered earlier.
35:18
Speaker 9: Let's just call it what it is. He was a pimp.
35:21
Speaker 9: He is a pimp and this is all he has known.
35:24
Speaker 9: But the problem now that we have those victims, the
35:28
Speaker 9: girls that have come forward and will potentially testify against him,
35:32
Speaker 9: I think you would agree those girls' lives are in
35:36
Speaker 9: jeopardy starting today, big time. That has ramped up, and
35:42
Speaker 9: so I am really concerned about the safety of these
35:46
Speaker 9: women going forward.
35:47
Speaker 2: I agree, Hey, Lynn, Lynnshaw and Karen Stark. First to you, Lynnshaw.
35:53
Speaker 2: If you look at page eight, we see a paragraph
35:57
Speaker 2: e as an elephant where Shawn Combs's associates would observe,
36:05
Speaker 2: stand by and watch him beat and physically injure victims,
36:10
Speaker 2: keeping them from leaving locations that Sidney Summers told us about,
36:15
Speaker 2: keeping one victim locked in a car, putting them up
36:20
Speaker 2: in hidden locations, forcing them to remain in hiding days
36:25
Speaker 2: at a time to recover from the injuries Sean Combs
36:30
Speaker 2: inflicted on their bodies.
36:34
Speaker 1: So they would.
36:35
Speaker 2: Stand by and watch the victims get raped. The first
36:39
Speaker 2: trafficking case I ever had, the victim was thirteen years old.
36:43
Speaker 2: Combs has been accused of underage rape. They would stand
36:47
Speaker 2: by and video these women getting beaten and raped, and
36:53
Speaker 2: in paragraph a page six, often unbeknownst to the victims,
36:58
Speaker 2: they were being videoed pill He forced them to have
37:01
Speaker 2: sex with commercial sex workers, but then that wasn't enough.
37:06
Speaker 2: According to this, he would beat them and they would
37:09
Speaker 2: actually have to go in hiding for days on end
37:13
Speaker 2: to recover.
37:14
Speaker 1: So the world wouldn't know what comes did.
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Speaker 8: Two of the biggest things that make money right now,
37:19
Speaker 8: Nancy are sex trafficking and extortion. I have spoken to
37:24
Speaker 8: different women over the years and I would say, come
37:26
Speaker 8: forward with this case in New York, and they would say, no,
37:29
Speaker 8: I am too scared. I'm in fear for my life,
37:32
Speaker 8: I'm in fear for my family's lives, and I just
37:35
Speaker 8: want to forget about it. And that is common with
37:38
Speaker 8: sex trafficking victims and survivors. My biggest fear here though,
37:43
Speaker 8: is I want to say I'm afraid. I don't want
37:45
Speaker 8: this to turn into what I believe happened with the
37:48
Speaker 8: Jeffrey Epstein case, where there was a lot of noise,
37:51
Speaker 8: a lot of this, a lot of that, and then
37:53
Speaker 8: we never, in my opinion, really got to the bottom
37:56
Speaker 8: of that. Really, we have one person in prison, maxwell
38:00
Speaker 8: a woman, what else happened? And then a lot of
38:03
Speaker 8: those victims signed on with lawyers for class action lawsuits
38:07
Speaker 8: and we hear nothing from them. This is my greatest
38:10
Speaker 8: fear that this will just all disappear. We cannot let
38:13
Speaker 8: this pimp daddy get away with this mister owning New
38:16
Speaker 8: York City, mister parading around yesterday were Bergdorff Goodman shopping
38:20
Speaker 8: bags and lounging on the Great Lawn in Central Park
38:23
Speaker 8: all day Sunday afternoon.
38:24
Speaker 1: This is incredible.
38:26
Speaker 8: He must, I repeat, he must be put in jail,
38:28
Speaker 8: and we must throw away the keys and make him
38:30
Speaker 8: an example. We don't tolerate this.
38:32
Speaker 1: It's been a long time coming.
38:34
Speaker 2: Sean Puffy comes in federal custody, his lawyer fighting tooth and.
38:39
Speaker 1: Nail to get him out on bond.
38:41
Speaker 2: We have the federal indictment, pages and pages and pages
38:45
Speaker 2: of allegations straight out to Kelly Hyman, joining US veteran
38:49
Speaker 2: trial lawyer.
38:51
Speaker 1: Kelly.
38:52
Speaker 2: If you look at this, the Feds did it up
38:55
Speaker 2: right because they name all of these charges. They implicate
39:00
Speaker 2: unnamed co conspirators which may turn out to be witnesses
39:04
Speaker 2: against him, but they throw in racketeering. I want to
39:08
Speaker 2: explain that because it sounds very confusing. Rico racketeering. It's
39:14
Speaker 2: called a criminal enterprise. It's normally reserved for the mob,
39:19
Speaker 2: where you'd have a godfather ruling over hundreds of thugs, okay,
39:25
Speaker 2: getting them to do his will, carrying out murders, rapes, pimping, theft, drugs,
39:32
Speaker 2: you name, it. They were all acting in concert. That's
39:37
Speaker 2: what they have alleged here. Why is that important Because
39:40
Speaker 2: it's easy to convict somebody on racketeering, as it's easy
39:45
Speaker 2: to convict somebody on a gun charge.
39:48
Speaker 1: Jump in.
39:49
Speaker 12: The evidence is going to be key. So when you
39:51
Speaker 12: look at racketeering cases, you're looking at allegations of a conspiracy,
39:56
Speaker 12: some type of planned, some type of way that they
39:59
Speaker 12: came together and based on the allegations, they're alleging that
40:02
Speaker 12: there was in fact this conspiracy and the only person
40:06
Speaker 12: that it benefited was Sean Combs, was p Diddy. He's
40:10
Speaker 12: the only one that benefited from this. And they conspire
40:14
Speaker 12: together as allegations that if someone was going to say
40:16
Speaker 12: something that there was allegations of.
40:19
Speaker 13: Threat or harm to them.
40:20
Speaker 12: So they were all working together, they were all conspiring,
40:23
Speaker 12: and that was the criminal in fact enterprise to harm
40:26
Speaker 12: these women. As someone who represents women that have been
40:30
Speaker 12: in human traffic and self trafficking, the allegations in this
40:33
Speaker 12: case are very.
40:35
Speaker 2: Severe and this is going to really hurt him. And
40:39
Speaker 2: the forfeiture allegation paragraph on page twelve, it's eighteen. It's
40:44
Speaker 2: talking about forfeiture allegations. I'm talking about going after Diddy's money.
40:51
Speaker 2: You know what to hey with the money? What about
40:56
Speaker 2: these victims. Many people think, Oh, they did it for
41:00
Speaker 2: the money. They did it for the career. They were
41:04
Speaker 2: raped on video, drugged and raped, beaten kicked, forced to
41:10
Speaker 2: hide out until their bruises went away. There is no
41:16
Speaker 2: defense to that, according to the allegations. We wait and
41:22
Speaker 2: watch as justice unfolds. If Sean Combs manages to walk
41:27
Speaker 2: out on bond, yes, he'll be released for now. Nancy
41:32
Speaker 2: Grace signing off, goodbye friend,