Mark Savage
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Diddy On Trial
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Not really. I think after the first two bail applications were denied, this one seemed pretty locked on as well. The arguments that the prosecution had made in advance seemed fairly strong. You know, they said that Diddy was trying to influence his case from jail. He was accused of contacting people using other inmates' phone privileges, up to eight of them.
Diddy On Trial
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They said he had bribed people to use their phone accounts. And they said he was trying to conduct a public relations campaign from inside jail to influence the case. So they cited a social media post that denounced one of his alleged victims. They said that he had contacted the person that wrote that post over a hundred times from jail and inferred that he had paid them to make that post.
Diddy On Trial
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And they also raised the birthday video that was posted by Diddy's seven children on the 5th of November
Diddy On Trial
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They said that that had been orchestrated from within jail, it was an attempt to paint him in a positive light, and that after it had gone up Diddy had been analysing the metrics and working out whether or not it was having the positive influence he wanted in order to influence potential jurors. So the prosecution have been really strong on this from the start.
Diddy On Trial
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In fact, one of the reasons that he was indicted so quickly and so early in the government's investigation is that they felt he was a danger to the investigation that they were conducting, that he was contacting witnesses, that he was trying to influence people.
Diddy On Trial
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Now, obviously, these are all things that his team denies, but the judge in this case, as the two previous judges, seems to have been swayed by those arguments. Judge Aaron Subramanian said there was evidence supporting a serious risk
Diddy On Trial
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of witness tampering and he added there were concerns about Diddy's propensity for violence citing some of the texts by his ex-girlfriend Cassie who is the government's main witness talking about having a black eye and a fat lip after he was seen assaulting her in that famous CCTV video that was leaked to CNN earlier this year.
Diddy On Trial
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I think Diddy's defence had made some arguments that needed to be taken seriously. They said it was impossible for him to prepare for the trial from behind bars because of the amount of material he had to review. They said those preparations were being hampered by the conditions at the jail, which included frequent lockdowns and officers taking away the pens that he uses to make notes.
Diddy On Trial
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And they had argued that the sweep of the prison that led to a lot of these illicit phone calls being made was a violation of his human rights. So I imagine the judge took all of that into account, but in the end came down on the side of the prosecution's arguments.
Diddy On Trial
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There was, I think, a certain degree of risk of flight. One of the reasons that the judge denied him the opportunity to be held at his home in Miami was was because that mansion has a dock, so he could get onto a boat and head off outside of US jurisdiction. The defence came back and said, well, in that case, he could serve bail in his apartment in Manhattan. But again, that was turned down.
Diddy On Trial
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It has notoriously poor conditions. Two inmates were fatally stabbed there over the summer. In 2019, there was a prison officer who was convicted of raping a detainee. And in the same year, during the winter snap, like New York has cold winters, the entire facility lost power. And prisoners were freezing cold for days and days and days. So, yes, the conditions are bad.
Diddy On Trial
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Obviously, Diddy is not being held with the general prison population. He's in a special wing that houses high profile detainees. He's there in the same wing where they would have held R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein when they were up for trial. So the assumption is that he gets arrested.
Diddy On Trial
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A slightly better deal than the general prison population, but again, he's still subject to all of the prison rules. He still has to get up for the early morning wake-up call at 6am, he has to make his own bed, he has to mop the floor. These are things that he will not have been used to in his previous life.
Diddy On Trial
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I have indeed. And actually, if you look back, one of his lawyers said a couple of months ago outside the courthouse in New York that the roughest part of the jail conditions was the food he had to eat. I think his first meal, it was reported by one of the New York tabloids, was Swedish meatballs.
Diddy On Trial
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I don't know what he would normally have eaten, but they have also in the New York Post managed to get a copy of the menu of for the Thanksgiving meal. So they say the Thanksgiving lunch, it sounds pretty standard. Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, cranberry sauce, gravy, dinner rolls and beverages. I mean, that's what you would expect.
Diddy On Trial
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But I think any of us who have had hospital food or school dinners will know that the standard in these sorts of institutions is not what you would get from a home-cooked meal by your mum.
Diddy On Trial
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So the lunch, the main Thanksgiving lunch, which is served at 11 o'clock in the morning, very early, that is the roast turkey. In the evening, yes, there are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, crisps, whole wheat bread, fruit and beverages. That's the evening meal. But you've stuffed yourself full of Thanksgiving dinner. You don't need anything more than a sandwich, do you?
Diddy On Trial
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And there is also, there's a heart-healthy option as well. You can have hot and sour tofu. I don't know what hot and sour tofu would taste like. I dread to think.
Diddy On Trial
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I mean, I think, as we heard before, his team are appealing some of these decisions and are trying to get him released from jail ahead of the trial. I'm not convinced that after being denied the application three times that even an appeals court is going to reverse those decisions. But yes, that is the next step for his team.
Diddy On Trial
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I'll come back anytime you'll have me. This is a fascinating case to follow.
Diddy On Trial
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It now runs from 2004 to 2024, whereas before it had just been a 16-year time span.
Diddy On Trial
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Yes. Yes, that's right. So victim one is the case that they built the federal prosecution on.
Diddy On Trial
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Well, they've said that the prosecution's case is flawed and the statement from Mark Agnefilo, who is the main lawyer on Diddy's case against, or Diddy's case with the government, said the government has added the ridiculous theory that two of Mr. Combs' former girlfriends were not girlfriends at all, but were prostitutes.
Diddy On Trial
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Mr. Combs is as committed as ever to fighting these charges and to winning at trial.
Diddy On Trial
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Ich denke, eines der Hauptvorgaben ist, wenn jemand mit Racketeering verantwortlich ist, dann bedeutet das, dass es eine große Gruppe von Leuten gibt, die in dieser Verschwörung involviert sind. Und momentan ist Sean Coombs der einzige Defendant in diesem Fall.
Diddy On Trial
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Wir erwarteten, dass wir andere Leute in seinem Orbit sehen, Assistenzen, Sicherheitsbehörden, Leute wie diese, die verurteilt werden könnten. Das ist noch nicht passiert, aber es ist wert zu sagen, dass das Verhandlungsverfahren immer noch umgekehrt wird. Wir wissen, dass es immer noch große Gerichtsverhandlungen gibt.
Diddy On Trial
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And they say in this updated indictment that they will potentially file further superseding indictments before the trial. And they've promised the judge they will do that as promptly as possible.
Diddy On Trial
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That's the feeling that I get from the people I've spoken to in the US. And I think it's worth remembering that this is a case that did move incredibly quickly. They only took six months between issuing the search warrants for Sean Coombs' properties in Florida and in California... to filing the indictment.
Diddy On Trial
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That is fast for a government case, for a federal case against someone and the reason that prosecutors gave for that is that they thought he was a danger to the community, he was a danger to witnesses that he might intimidate potential witnesses and they've said that in court and that is why things have been moving at the pace they have.
Diddy On Trial
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That doesn't mean that the investigation stopped once the original indictment was filed and we know that there have been a lot of So this might not be it and we need to keep our eye out for future superseding indictments.
Diddy On Trial
Breaking: Prosecutors add more women to Diddy indictment
There are a couple of other little things that have changed that are worth noting. One of which is that the very famous CCTV video of... Sean Coombs Assault in Cassandra Ventura. Und sie haben eine Liste hinzugefügt, die sagt, dass sie glauben, dass Sean Coombs durch seine Freundin 100.000 Dollar bezahlt hat, um diese Fotos zu erhalten und sie aus dem öffentlichen Bereich zu halten.
Diddy On Trial
Breaking: Prosecutors add more women to Diddy indictment
Offensichtlich ist das nicht passiert, aber das bringt Gewicht zu ihren Angelegenheiten von Verschwörung. Sie haben Details von zwei neuen Drogen hinzugefügt, die sie sagten, er habe genutzt, um Menschen zu behaupten und sauber zu bleiben. So as well as cocaine, oxycodone and ketamine, which were mentioned in the original indictment. They've added methamphetamine and psychedelic mushrooms.
Diddy On Trial
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And there's another line, a very small detail, but perhaps significant, saying that he did not just assault women, but employees, witnesses and others. Now that may give us a clue to some other victims that will be added in a later superseding indictment. Although, of course, we won't know until we actually see that.
Diddy On Trial
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Es bedeutet im Grunde, dass die vorherigen Anzeichen geändert wurden und die Regierung neue Details zu dem Fall geöffnet hat. Sie haben entweder die Anzeichen gegen jemanden geöffnet, was nicht hier passiert ist, oder sie haben neue Details über die verurteilten Krimine geöffnet, was in diesem Fall passiert ist.
Diddy On Trial
Breaking: Prosecutors add more women to Diddy indictment
So there are no new charges against Diddy. Like you said, he's still accused of sex trafficking, of racketeering and transportation for the purposes of prostitution. But what the prosecutors have done is expanded the case with more details. They've added two new female victims and they've also said that the alleged crimes took place over a longer time frame than they'd initially said.