P. Diddy Trafficking Indictment – Status Conference Hearing

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NEW YORK — Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested for sex trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy, was given a May 2025 trial date by a judge in New York. According to the indictment, Combs allegedly abused women for years as associates and employees kept quiet and allegedly helped.

during the trial, many powerful people will be named, many dark secrets will be revealed some of the events have taken place at the homes of famous people, others have taken place in hotels that we all know

Abuse where people  in front of a hidden camera  were forced to have sex for several days and rapes  against 120 people where  of each  child  entire  american entertainment industry  is rocking after  the  accusations and suspicions  surrounding the rapper and  hip hop mogul sean diddy combs  has grown and grown

and today  he will appear in court  again.

the really big question many are asking now is which other famous people  may be involved or  amat levind writes here in  swedish dagens nyheter  what happens  if  sean ” diddy ” combs    beggin tell .

the producer and rapper diddy combs also known as puff daddy  and P diddy he is one of the most  influential and wealthy  artists in the whole world.

he broke through in the  early  1990s and  had among other things a monster hit in 1997  with ! ill be missing you

he also  made a name for himself as a party fixer and a businessman and and there are  ver very many  in  thecelebrity  elite who hung out with him and  at some point  can we seen in a picture together .

but  now in  in progress two lawsuits againts the superstar at the same time ,three weeks ago  he was arrested by the federal  FBI  and he is suspectedof using his power to run a so -called sex  crime empire where he exploited and abused women for several years.

since the arrest he has also sat in this  custody  that we see in  the picture here namely in  brooklyn and today  he meets the judge for the tihrd atempt to be released  against bail  and the  charges are seriouse to say the least .

for exaple  he allegedly caused female victims  to participate  in several day -long secret  sex lectures so called  freak off  sex performance with  male prostitutes.

they are also said to  have been filmed in order to then be blackmailed and last week came the other big shocking news as  many as 120 people  are now joining together and accusing sean diddy combs of rape and sexual abuse ans several of the victims  they  are supposed  to be minors , the youngest is   as  young as  9 year old boy . diddy  he  denies  crime.

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P. Diddy, real name Sean Combs, was arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury on several charges including racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. The music mogul has been denied bail twice, but his attorneys are still fighting for his release, appealing the judges’ decisions to a higher court. Thursday, P. Diddy is expected to appear in a New York City courtroom for a status conference hearing about his case.

as today the indicted rapper and musical  mogul will appear in manhattan federal court for a  status hearing.

it’s important to set the stage about  what’s going to happen , he’s  facing three very federal, three serious federal chargers ,racketeering conspiracy , sex trafficking, transportation to engage in in prostitution  namely that he’s leading a criminal  Enterprise using  his business and  associates to  engage in  all sorts of criminal activities  including using force fraud  coercion to cause women  to engage in sexual activities including sex acts with male sex workers  those so -called freak offs.

so these are the charges he’s  facing , what’s going to be happening today 

it’s an important hearing, this is where we believe that prosecutors and his defense attorneys  will  adress some serious issues with the court including  discovery 

there is apparently a voluminous amount of material in this case according  to the parties they submitted a  joint letter to the court talking about this .

were’re looking at several terabytes of electronic material  cell phones, laptops,business records physical evidence what those  materials contain we do not  know yet but it’s being shared to the other side .

and therefore there’s going to be questions of  how long it will take to extact the data ,will it  be  turned over to the defense ,how long  it will take to  be turned over to the defense.

but it’s also possible we can learn more about a potential trial date it seems that sean combs wants  this to happen in the spring of 2025.

we may learn some other deadlines in this case  and there may also be  an issues so be on the  lookout for this that we be brought up.

this defense filed last night  something very interesting they said they  are looking for a hearing to determine if the government  engaged in miscounduct-more specifically  did the departement of homeland security  , the agents that raided sean comps properties.

were they  the ones who leaked the 2016 surveillance video that appears to show combs beating his ex-girlfriend cassandra ventura it’s quite  the accusation and we’ll talk more about it  .

but to be clear what we don’t think is going t be brought up today is the issue of bail.

combs  defense attorneys they have appealed his denial of baile  his -pretrial  detention to a higher  court the second circuit court of appeals.

we’ll see how that  shakes up, but  there’s goingto be more issues that are pressing  today and  what makes today’s hearing  also  interestingis this is now in  front ofa new  judge.

the new judge  assigned to combs case out of the southern  district of new york is the honorable aron subramanian so it’ll be interesting to see how he now handles these matters in a very very high -profile  case.

now unfortunately allthough   law & crime  have cameras outside the courthouse there are no cameras allowed in  federal court.

there’s a lot of issues this is the beginning part of the case  but a lot of preliminary issues   that need to be worked out .

it’s going  boil down to a scheduling  discussion  this judge isgoing to want  to obviously show  that he means business in terms of  putting deadlines out and having meet them.

the defense’s urgency in this in terms of bringing thiscase to trial is  expected  ,he’s in custody  he’s going through hell  they want this  case try it  as soon as they can  but it’s a case with significant discovery  issues

terabytes of information, questions whether or not  you’re they’re even going to be able to access some of this discovery,imagine  the timing of getting it and then the tim it’s going to take to go through  every single piece of it from the defense prespective.

the government’s had this information for a while  the defense wants it tomorrow, partial of that whatäll happen today is the judge at least getting  input from the parties as  he already has by way of a letter .

how quick they  want to try this case what  kind of deadlines they want to sent and how soon he can  schedule those deadlines  so they can be  met.

a portion of what the defense said in this joint letter to the court and it says ” the defense  intends to ask the court  to require the government to  immediately  produce certain categories namely copies of mr comb’s electronic devices that were seed over six months ago  and  at the time  of his arrest and sertain categories of  requested brady  material and to timely review and produce the remaining rule 16 material in their possession .

in regards to the brady material what that means is  evidence that  the prosecutors are going to potentially use against  combs,one of the things is  he is able to  and  also it’s required that they produce all evidence to combs that is going to be used against himm  so he’s able to evaluate it and prepare a  proper defense.

we don’t know wat this video evidence is but the defense  wants it ,they want  him to go to trial this is what they  wrote in  the letter mr  combs continues to assert his right to a  speedy trial and intends to requesty a trial date of april  or may 2025  and  as consistent with the court’s  trial schedule that feels like around the corner when you’re talking about terabytes and terabytes of information and they are saying we’re putting the  government’s feet to the fire  we want all this material as soon as possible – is  that ambitious ? april may 2025?

overly ambitious  and the reason for the ambition  is pretty self- evident,he’s incarcerated this is a celebrity   multi- multi- millionaire whos is incarcerated and they want to get this done.it’s ambitious because the turnaround is gonna be difficult it’s, it’s gonna be difficult to go through all this evidence to see  what exculpatory evidence is there.

they don”t want to look at what the government thinks is important they  want to look at everything so they can find out   what’s important for the defense here.

what’s interesting is  thoug that the most important pieces of evidence besides that which is electronic and can be turnedover we’re  going  to have  you know  jensx material and for the defense lawyer the most important evidence in the casee of the FBI  302s and the grand jury testimony of witnesses who are  the witnesses going to tobe what have they said to the government how many times have they been interviewed by the government

that evidence we won’t see until perhaps no sooner than 60 days before the trial  date or maybe within two weeks of the trial date depending upon how lenient or conservative the judge is.

especially with federal courts the transparency is  a lot more  limited that if it was a state  prosecution but ,  we can read between the lines even the  defense suggested in theif filings that victim number one with  respect to that sex trafficking charge  is cassandra ventura so people have been saying she could be the star witness.

update

sean combs has been brought into the courtroom apparently he came in through the side holding cell door  ,he is wearing jail pants, his wearing a t-shirt  and he was seen smiling and hugging his lawyers.

so as we talk about  sean combs the rat mogul,the business mogul, fall from grace to see him in an outfit  like this to see him in this environment is  is very very different.

there could be a discussion today  about  defense’s allegation that the departmento homeland security to be clear – departement of homeland security not united states proscutors not the prosecutors from the southern  district of new york but  the department of homeland security leaked  that  2016  video of sean combs allegedly beating  cassandra ventura.

the point is if that becomes  a topic of conversation today because they’re saying we want an evidentiary hearing to find out who leaked it the prosecutors have said   it didn’t come from us

anything you can do to try and circumvent what i s a smoking gun in at least  the case as it relates to the character of this guy it’s a good idea for the defense try  and get a little bit of a fishing expedition  going on in terms who leaked it.

more importantly  at some point in time they’re going to need to get a fair and impartial jury and this might  just be the first in series of motions they  file trying to keep the  government from leaking evidence that’s going to be important to this case.

anybody  who saw that particular video walked away from it disgusted and obviously people are going to be brought into  a courtroom pretty anything you can do  to stop it  you try and.stop it.

the letter from their  filing this is from sean combs  defenses attorneys as detailed below the CNN  leak was one but one of  long and rest documented history leaks and fals statement made with one purpose  to savage mr comb’sreputation prior to trial while the  government  miscounduct  in this case is particularly egregious .

it is  unfortunately part of a trend in this district, the  government has learned that it can strategically leak  information  with impunity.

this court should exercise its authority to prhibit these underhanded  tactics whish  severely undermine a criminal   defendant’s right to a fair trail and they not only  say this video was  leaked but also also number of comments that were allegedely attributed to a DHS agents talking about who they’re were interwiewing and what material they’re seizing

have they a point?

they ‘re doing what a good defense attorney  is trying to do-th smoking gun evidence  out  of there  any way you can, now the prosecutors did a reply  letter and  in their reply they said look the video leak , didn’t come from us, didn’t come from  the departement of homeland security it wasn’t part of the evidence prosecutors had for the grand jury  so -the argument  althug  more  to make it  than you a have every  right to  as a good  defense would  there isn’t elate to stand on

that raises an interesting question with the defense   strategy here ,why they’re bringing  up tactics saying prosecutorial they better make sure  that it is correct because i fit’s not they could become less credible  in front of the judge and that  shape they way this trial  plays out for the defense if you lose the trust of a judge.

to be clear we don’t believe that the issue of bail is  going to come up in front  of judge subbramanian right now tha  this is now going to be decided by a different court  a higher court  the second scicuit  court of  appeals.

but having said that but what they  basically suggest and summerize it  is we put together a very  attractive bail  package $ 50 million bail  home confinement take away access to his phone,take away access to the internet,visitor logs he will  be monitored by a third-party outside security  team.we will put together any condition  possible  in order to make sure that  he doesn’t   isn not  a danger  to t society as prosecutors claim .

and they also spend a large  portion of their brief saying he knew  hewas under  investigation  since  january and has his attorneys reach out  to prosecutors,he gave up his passport ,he has doing  everything in his  power to  be cooperative.

he came to new york to surrounder himself and  this is  a not only a fair bail package andheäs been doing the right thing but what they also suggest is the two judges who denied and  bail  previously they were relying on unproven  allegations from the prosecution

they ‘re saying he was contacting  witnessess but here’s not definitive proof of that it was  not as nefarious  as they claim  there are people who were reaching out to him  regatding the civil lawsuits so as this now takes its way to a second court  -a highe court ,

the argument  they made the first time they made it was an excelent one  , thought  they overcame what is a statutory presumption in these type of cases .

the problem they got now  though they’re in  a cicuit court  and the circuit court  is really  going  be looking at  whether or not there was an abuse of discrussion and there is a lot of discreation wested in the district court judges  the ones that ruled on this case to make these  kind of bail detention decisions that they make every day

it’s a really  legitimate  argument and there’s  certainly circumstances that could  be put in place that  could protect everyone  in this case and allow  him to maintain his liberty. it’s always a  difficult  task to overcome a district  judge’s finding on the issue of  detention.

in other words. it wasn’t so outside the realm of understanding why  he  did it why the judge did this , it’s not like it made  absolutely no sense, you take the  government’s  allegations you take the facts of this case you  take away the evidence  you can say that the judge  was  justified and that äs really what your’re looking at here.

so the hearing has officially started comb’s  new  defense attorney anthony rico wantted to make it clear to the court that  mr combs mother and his children traveled  here from florida and are seated behind me, that’s  interesting because

by the way  to let you everybody know  what you seeing  your’re seeing  is the best any of us can do . there are no cameras allowed in that court room  this is not  like a  standard law and crime trial .big disappointment.

the familys there but his mom early this week released a statemenet and she basically told the world dont judge him allow him to present his  defense but also she said  he lied ,he lied he said he dind’t do anyhinhand then he apologizes for the cassandra ventura video .he lied.it was very interesting his mom released thats tatement  through her lawyer ofcours.

lying vrsus committing sex trafficking and rico type charges are two different  things  -the law says you’re innocent until proven guilty  and his mom  being there could be a show of her belief that my son is innocent  of these   idictment charges until he’s proven and I’m going to suport my son.

she came out with that statement after the charges , after the civil lawsuits and unfortunately she’s 84 years old she probably wants this statement in .  it’s understandable that she said that .

but at the same time they’re very serious accusations and number of  people have levied very very  claims against them .

so what are   the views  on federal court  not allowing transparanecy via presscoverage inside the courtroom  would the video  of the hearign be public when the case is close

they ought to be access  the citizens hae a right  to see  they gave a right to know  they want to see justice being made and they  don’t have that opportunity  in federal courts we  don’t have that opportunity of pennsylvania. but we’re  now at a point  in time  in  our  nations history where our  citizens require it . they want to be able t see it   so they can believe it and they  want to have trust in the system  that would give them at least some confidence that what  they hear  what they  they read is what their eyes are telling them .

no they  will not  be a copy of the video after the case there will  be transcripts,  we’ll get courtroom sketches as we’re seeing.because  the most importan thing is the privacy of the victims  as well as to ensure that the charge no matter how egregious the charges  are you have a right to a fair trial  and opening up to the public having cameras in there  could really impede on that right.

 update – speedy trial 

so the judge said the  defense requested a trial in april or may of 2025 the judge  says they can give them either month and the judge offered may 5th  the defense said they will take may 5th and the government says its  case will take 3 weeeks .- less  than a year after he was arrested and indicted.

it’s unbelievable it  would be  really  the absolute unusual  situation with the representations made about the amount of  discovery of this case  but they have  an obligation to not only protect   mr combs  but to see to his wishes and what he wants is his  liberty .

now if there’s determination i can assure you by the circuit court that he’s going to be released thay may want  to punt this case until maybe two years from now.

while  he’s in custody   i can assure  they’re going to  pushing for  that may trial date and  guess what this judge is basically saying ” you want it I’ll give it to you but don’t come crying to me  four months for now  if it not working for you  schedule “… so interesting.

he really thought  he was going to make bail be on house arrest for one year two years push it out as long as he wants .

another update

the defense says its case  it’s going to take  a week one week  to defend and that seems…that he’s going  to be locked up  try to get him tried  as soon as possible put this behind him they feel confident they feel confident in their defense against these charges right now and

we’ kind of heard a flavor of it  that  all of these freak offs were consensual but doesn’t that signal that the defense at least  at this point feels confident in proving his  innocence.

but the defense might also  have also have all the evidence yet, yjr prosecutor and their letter said there was several terabytes of information to break  that down  if you had two terabytes of video  footage  that would  amount to 40 days  of watching the video footage nonstop just to get through those  two terabytes and one terabyte we know  is about half a million photos.

the government  has just said the prosecutors that they can complete production of discovery meaning turning it over to  sean combs by the end of the year so before january  if you give everything to the defense by january can they  adequately prepare a case by may?

that give you four or five months  to review  the amount of evidence, the video alone could take  two months just to lok at them every hour  of every day  for two monts you  better  have a great legal team behind you.

and that’s  for the current charges if these charges are upgraded if he he’s hit with charges related to miners  as the some of the allegations in the civil suits  have alleged this whole case changes – thewhole defense changes.

imagine that thy can’t go to trial in may  so quickly.  but with the current charges here-again that part’s  interesting  because the government  knows right now if they  plan to issue a superseding indictment so would they give any  indication” i wouldn’t think this may  date’s going to work your  honor  um.. i can’t tell you why but i  think that something’s going  to happen in the next months or so” they can’t  say that.

they don’t usually  and they would here certainly  a  former defense attorney have been expecting a superseding indictment in this case when from the minute they first read the  indictment he  were stunned that they  were no other defendants, he  were stunned that there weren’t any charges relative to minors

but TBD – if there is no change meaning if there is no superseding indictment the defense will get  what they want. defense attorney’s just don’t know  at the end of the  day if that’s what they’re going to want.

you want  time to prepare, you want time to go through everything it would be a herculean  task to go through all of this  stuff and  to find the stuff you’re looking for.

and things change january  will come and we’ll  see some new developments and that april or may trial date may  may quickly move if there’s additional evidence that’s provided if there’s a change in circumstances but it’s pretty clear they want to try the case now because  he’s in jail.

if  that changes if the second circuit lets him out on bail it’s a whole another thought it’s 100%  true .

now to give everybody more updates 

they discussing now  discovery and disputes the defense says we’re trying  to keep them to a minimum  we have an active  dialogue with  the government  no disputes at the moment the government had said that there   96 devices that were seized in those march raids from  los angeles and miami.

and also  when he  was at that private airport in florida and  government is extracting material over the next 30 days so it kind of gives us the time frame of this .

about the jury -the potenial jury  

how is  the court  going to select a  jury  given the fact  that most people in the world know of him that is the question of the hour that everybody  is asking

one of the issues here is he is one of the most famous hip-hop artists of all time so how are you going to get a jury that’s fair and impartial that hasn’t heard about the diddy case.

it’s going to come down to the jury questioning when they get the jury there  and asking the question of ” can you be fair and  impartial “

the test isn’t wheter or not  anybody’s heard of the case, evberyone probably  has but whether or not you can set aside any bias that you may have  against sean combs and be fair and  impartial.

we are going to see a lot of challenges to the jury pool and this is going to be a long  drawn out process.

that’s a point  when the  defense makes to say that this  video of him reportedly  beating  cassandra ventura everybody saw that video and that is going to be very hard to forget that’ll be very hard to put away .

now the defenses says, they say your looking  at this video  you are saying  it’s evidence of her escaping her freak off.

this was a coupl that had a very tumultuous relationship they both abused drugs this was a domestic spat. this was a incident of doemsticviolence but it’s not evidence of a  sex trafficking it’s not evidence of a criminal  enterprise.

one of the motions  you’re going to see here is to exclude that  that video for that very reason that  it has nothing to do  with thecrimes charged .

this was no different from him getting into a fist fight on the street  or fight with someone in his own family it was  domestic violence it had nothing to do with the crimes  charged.

and  frankly they may have a legitimate leg to stand on here it is so prejudicial that there’s going to have to be significant probative  value for it to come  into evidence in this case and they will monumentally  move heaven and earth to try and keep that  evidence out .

going back  to an update

so the government still  talking about discovery the material in this case  that is going to take some time and specific tools to extracy all of the data  some  devices were damage.

what does  that process contain what do that process entail  when you get a voluminous amount of material email accounts, cell phones ,laptops ,video surveillance footage , electronic data 

 how does the government work on  extracting that information and who do they work with?

your going to have  a team of  experts that are very good at going in ,getting the data out,but it’s a process it’s going  take a while to do it.

is it  possible for cassie cassandra ventura to testify against combs even  though they settled  outside the court  and just  to let everybody know she  filed her lawsuit in november of 2023 settled with him the day after an undisclosed amount for undisclosed details

 can she testify?

yes she could be compelled to testify by the prosecution  , that was  a civil  agreement and it  certainly has  legitimacy within the civil courts but this is a criminal prosecution they’ll   issue a suppeen order,they’ll compel he to testify.

another follow -up question

how many times does he get to appeal for bail? so just to let everybody know first there was a magistrate judge who denied bail, then a  district court judge  denied bail now he’s taking it up to the second circuit court of appeals.

if the second circuit court of appeals denies it wher can he appeal it next and how many times can he keep appealing it?

it’s over  says  Brian MCmonagle a former  defense lawyer says he never seen an appeal beyond the circuit go anywhere the next place to go is  to the United states supreme court they’re not taking on any kind of a bail motion.  so this will be it the circuit court will rule and  whatever tthat ruling is that will be your answer.

and the circumstances change

some of the allegations put forward by the prosecutors about him contacting witnesses  or some other development happens that changes the circumstances.

so the question is  -again  can he appeal  for bail  one more time?

you would  have to  really need a change of circumstances sure if you found evidence of innocence if you found evidence that  a typical case  somewhere was somebody was somewhere else  at the time of the crime  yeah  a lot of things could change

but just on the issue of where you can go for  help on appeal they can’t go any higher than  thecircuit court with any legitimacy .

now  do you thing t thy make good arguments

for the application that he should be a granted pre-trial release ,what he would say is a very  attractive bail package throughout his appeal he said that  a lot of these conversations, he wasn’t  obstructing justice

first  of all  they said that he denying the civil lawsuits  that cant be a form of  obstruction  of justice  as soon ashe found out somebody was a grand jury witness he stopped  contacting them.

a lot of people reached out to him regarding the civil suits and the bigger question put forward by him ishow can you detain him when  these are mere allegations that aren’t backed  up by more evidence

that he had been reaching out to people that he had been trying to reach out to witnesses and victims does  the government  not need  more than order to  detained him.

the bigger question is how can you ensure that  the person with all the money and all the power in the world is going to show up to court. so their bail pachage  yeah it’s a good bail package  but like  they said he’ll surrender his passport we don’t know if he has  other passorts.

there are countries where you could go and pay $2000,000 become a citizen  get another  passport.

so why didn’t he do it in the past few months?

he could have done it  he didnt do it he surrendered his passport even before he had to, maybe he believed that it wasn’t as bad as it is right now.

another  question pops up

why  haven’t there been charges brought towards diddy’s employees and other artists?

the only way you could bring other charges if they were part of a conspiracy ,if they took any actions any criminal actions on the part of the  conspiracy so whether   there were other artists involved wether other employees involved they   would  have to engage in criminal conduct.

Brian MCmonagle is stunned that nobody in  his  what he call inner circle who  are supposed to have made some of these threats who carried out some of these threats have not been charged as a accomplices that’s the one thing that has  stunned hjm so far in terms of this brevity of this indictment why it is just  him.

by the way they said the same thing  in the Epstein case.

if this is a giant criminal  organization if there’s multiple people why do you only  see two people being charged for it ,but  i guess that ‘s the question .

this is  a conspiracy he can’t just agreee with himself he’s got to agree with the people you’d havet to assume that they are cooerationg witnesses right?

there’s no question about that what’ troubling Brian MCmonagle  is if they are  cooperating witnesses did they simply get immmunity

you rarely seee that you see cooperating witnesses  coming in  and taking guilty pleas and then cooperating.  you rarely see full blown immunity and that’s why brian is not so sure we won’t see a superseding indictment.

same thing happened in the R kelly case

and so far no  updates from court.

another  update

this is about tony busby , so again tony busby is that Texas attorney who announced  last  week that  he is representing hundreds of alleged  viticms of sean combs and he plan to file 120 lawsuits across the country   says that at least 25 of them were minors when they were abused by hawn  combs. one was a 9 year old he claims.

but by knows things meaning crimes,could we expect the fed to  inquire about those settlements he’s doing?

he was asked about the connetivity between him and the federal government and he really didn’t say like he  either didn’t know  or  he didn’t say.

and we may not know. even if there  is a  conversation it’s probably not going to be disclosed to the public.

 kamala  harris  and  sean combs  were best friends

couple of  updates

prosecutor  johnson, from the airport nine  devices were seized from miami 36 devices  were seized 29  have been extracted  17  will be produced  in our  next  production in LA  51 were seized 27 will be produced in our next priduction also combs phone from his  arrest in september will also be  extracted.

some  people would say that seems like really dry  boring news i will tell you  we have been speuclating for months before the arrest indictment what did thay take what are they looking at?

we still don’t know what they’re finding on it or what they will find on it  but  that’s interesting .

another update 

prosecutor johnson said  that the subpoena returns we are putting them in a relativity databas.

its  an online base where you store lots of information and you  have someone go in and  code it  and check to see if something ‘s responsive or not.

and  the judge asked about brady material  johnson the prosecitor says the defense sent  us a  brady request the judge said the next conference i will ask about your progress the prosecutor said our investigation continues.

futher on .he says we have a subpoena out to combs global we are reviewing all of the material for privilege  our filter   team  removed some material before  the case came can see it from

and the judge said for motions ” I’ll give  the defense until february 17th  or before we are here.

 Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ friendship with Justin Bieber

 and then they  next have a next discovery  conference on december 18th at 2 p.m and now they’re going to turn to a defendan’s motion .

a lot about  discovery here setting time tables for it as Brian MCmonagle pretty much  expected they want  to get the case on track and they want to put dates down  that’ll be etched in sotne where they can take everybody’s pulse and december’s  a pretty good time there’ll be another two months for the defense to receive discovery start reviewing  discovery items  know that they don’t  have  the government’s  going  to have to explain why they haven’t turned over whatever they do have left .

but this is the kind of timetable you see time and  time again  witch complex cases  so Brian MCmonagle is not suprised by it  he would have expected it  this judge  doing it by the numbers that he thinks everybody expected him to do.

 Dream team

mark  agnifilo who is represneting sean combs one member of  it’s now  being teamed his dream team. mark agnifilo is asking  the court for a gag order it says that the  concern is  that the agents have been leaking grand jury information and making  other prejudicial statements.this is

right now it’s all sepculation that they’re making regarding the gag order if the prosecutors also request a gag  order against  sean P  diddy combs  in order to prevent him from talking to victims.

usually  it’s something that the prosecution requests  a gag orders for the defense  Brian MCmonagle  understand  why mark’s doing it  it’s the right move this is a case where they do not want their jury pool exposed to any more  comments  any more statements or any more videos that may be at the disposal of the federal  government or  whomever turned it over so smart move  by the  defense  Brian MCmonagle would expect the government  to say ” sure  we’re all in”.

 this is the government’s  response 

the government says – this is a live update. they say the defense is trying to e exclude a   damning piece of evidence ( regarding  the 2016 video)

the press  statements they are not  from the prosecution team the government says  it is significant that  that’s the  case. the government  is requesting the judge defer any ruling  until they got the papers.

and the prosecutors asked for 3 weeks to be able to put together their papers and wouldn’t be supirsed if there’s an evidential hearing that comes ot of this .

they ‘re saying he’s not going to have his sixth amendment right to a fair trial and that’s  something judges take very  seriously.

how much time  is sean combs looking at if he convicted of all of charges

somewhere in the neigborhood of 15 to 20 years Brian MCmonagle  think  would be a guideline kind  of  area that he could expect  with this kind of  charges.

what about life  in prison ?

this isn’t a life  case Brian MCmonagle can’t even fathom that this would be a life case.

another question is  are the sons being looked into being involved .

we know that justin combs has been mentioned in a  lawsuit ,we know that chistian combs is facing  his owns sexual assault  lawsuit .they haven’t  been chargeged they are  with his father in court .

we know  the prosecutor sent out they said in one of their corespondents  300  subpoena’s  as   100  have been turned outback so there  may be evidence somewhere  in there that the  sons are being looked at but  right now we’re just waiting to see how    it all unfolds.

this is a question that has been a common theme 

what point are people able to be legally responsible for not reporting  a criminal  act  that they witness or suspect.will hotel employees be charged for not  reporting potential abuse.

this  becomes a  common question when we talk about whether or not  big times celebrities who maybe were at the parties and notice or at the freak off  notice something , even if they   didn’t engage in criminal behavior ,if they saw it  and didn’t  report id could   they be legal responsible.

Brian MCmonagle  respons to that is  that  he don’t think there  are any charges that could emanate in a federal proceeding for simply witnessing a crime and not stopping int or not notifying law enforcement,  take an  active role in covering it up take an active role in participating or  in a whole different  level of conversation .

but  Brian MCmonagle  think the answer to that question at least  in every case  he ever been involved is ” no”.

another update from court.

the judge  has said the order would prohibit any further leaking of information to the media it would be furnished to to DHS agents so seems to beentertaining the idea of a gag order.

the government responded we have no  problem affirm our obligation not to speak to the press. we object  to an order about  future leakes if so should be reciprocal-so it goes boths ways.

how would that work in terms of if there is a gag order would we  all just be scouring legal filings to get  more information about  this case? his attorneys  woldn’t  do any presss   ,there would  be no  press  conferences what would that look like a gag orderthat really  seal information about this ?

it depends on what is inthe gag order and to  what extent if it is  that neither sidecan talk to the press then yeah we’re going to wait at the edge of ourseats till the next court  update and be listening attentively  at what happens at each  court  appareance.

what point will we know if other defendants  become partof this indictment.

theres’ no easy answer to that Brian MCmonagle would  think it would be quick , meaning  the next  couple of months if there’s  going to be a superseding indictment  and that’s really what the question is asking about  whether  there’ll be additional charges and or additional defendants Brian MCmonagle  think we going to see it witihin the next 60 days  Brian would be stunned if the prosecution didn’t move quickly if they have it .

the only problem is going to be what if they develop evidence in february.now what if somebody comes forward in february they find something in  february  know it’s an ongoing investigation

theres’s civil litigation here and  sometimes the feds really don’t know   what  these civil practitioners have in terms of that  evidence  and what they’ve developed what if they get that two monts from now or 3 months from now

what if there’s an objection to it and they can’t get to it , that would be the only way  Brian MCmonagle would think we see a superseding indictment after the new year.

 and that means that trial aint’ happening in april or may  right?

Brian MCmonagle  respond to that ” no way.

 update

judge says draft an order maybe  see what a gag would look  like open  the floor for objections the government said

“we have concerns about mr  agnifilo’s statement agan this is  the defense attorney mark agnifilo statement , he basically  accused the government of engaging in a racist  prosecution”

so  the government’s taking  offense to the alegations put forward by combs defense team as they should .-the defense team is essentially saying that they leaked the2016 video and there’s absolutely no  evidence to show that the government leaked it.

quote mr agnifilo  said they make the  case  asthe takedown of a successful black man  the statments have been picked  up. mr agnifilo  responds this  should have been in the letter

that’s not a legal arguement right  if this goes to trial can his defense team say… this is  a racist prosecution ?  can they make that argument?

they could  make  whatever argument they need to  to advance and as we saw they could say  ” well look at the video , they leaked it whatever  they’re are going to bring

the key for them here is  they’re just trying  to take the spotlight away from the  alleged activity that combs was involved  in and paint him to be the victim here.

so Brian MCmonagle  have represented some high -profile people  in  his involvement in representing bill cosby.

let say Brian MCmonagle representing a high -profile individual  let say  sean combs what does that look like what is the difficulties of representing somebody like him?

the biggest difficulties  Brian MCmonagle always found is trying to write the narrative in the media . you’ve received an avalanche of  adverse publicity and you’re going to take it upon yourself to overcome that it doesn’t work.

and that’s why Brian MCmonagle think  the defense is smart to ask for a gag order here. they’re not going to get favorable publicity no matter how hard they try.

that’s one of the problems the other problems wiht celebrities Brian MCmonagle is and it’s just some of them, not all of them but they have their own camps and they have their own proffessionals  that surround them.

and sometimes these folks think they’re trial lawyers when they’re not  and so what mr combs  ought to be doing  is taking his advice from his  dream team which he’s going to be paying a lot of money  fr and  which are all excellent lawyers .

and not some of the people that like to shirp in their ears that always isa bit of a problem  they’re  very wealthy folks they’re very brilliant but they’re not lawyers and they ougt to trust  their lawyers that wouldbe the one thing that  you’ll have to overcome as a  lawyer in this case.

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apology video on instagram 

Brian MCmonagle is convinced  his lawyers told them to  do that 

” listen, it was devastating what are you going to say about it you can’t spin it so apologize for for it and say yeah  i did it I’m not a great guy but i didn’t do what they’ve accused me  of  I’m not that guy.”

yeah…..

he admitted to a crime

“it was a crime ,that was one of those things and i know what your’re saying but don’t believe your lying eye.so you can’t run from that so embrace i made a mistake  i’m human  i alpologize for it”

Brian MCmonag thinks it was the smart  move and  he would have done it.

it’s definitely a point of conversation,and it helps it’s defense and he didn’t say he apologize but din’t reveal to much

if he is going  forward with the argument that this was bad domestic spat and not an example of sextrafficking,not example of a freak off

he could use that video and say” I’m apologizing for what happened between me  and her but it doesn’t mean  i did anything illegal -regarding a reckteering enterprise .

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again this is a live feed  outside courthouse there is no cameras allowed in the courtroom,we have these live updates coming in.

judge said any application under speedy trial act the  government responded we move to exlude time under the ACT  it’s already told by the motion

the judge said i exlude time until december 18th  i have no  application  for bail before me .

what does that mean?

Well  under speedy trial  act he has a right to go to trial within  90 days what can happen is there’s certain situation where you  would exclude so certain time wouldn’t count  against the government

as here  it could be a few  weeks it could be a month and that way it still gives them  more time.

basically mr combs  will remain detained.

talking abut the second circuit court of appeals,his appeal to fight bail  his appeal to try to get bailed  once again

when will we get a decision in that ? they judy   filed   their brief  in suppor of their brief saying he should be granted pre-trial release 

when will the court make a decision?

Brian MCmonagle  think it’s going to be real quick ,for a high profile appeal like this he think they’ll move quickly.we’ll probably see something within the next to weeks.

his attorney said this,obviously there’s terrible conditons within that detention center – the metropolitan  detentioncenter but also  said that he might be a target because of his high-profile status.

we saw  that with R  kelly case one of the things  his attorneys said when they were trying to get him  to get bail.

he was a target and he did get beaten up and the guy who beat him up wanted publicity for his own case.

definitely P.diddy  he could very likely be a target in prison .

as we talking about one of the big  things that’s  came out of this hearing is could we potentially see a trial in the spring of 2025 much sooner than lot of us   had anticipated.

if the  defense starts getting  all this material  and i believe they received  on october 7 their first batch of material .

if they start to see something and they say wow   the evidence is  a lot worse then we thought  do you think they going to say ” you know what  we need a little bit more time”

Brian MCmonagle absolutely  there’s no doubt about it  Brian MCmonagle mean  you know they can ask for more time anytime they want Brian MCmonagle think what ther judge is going to basically tell them is

” once you’ve gotten discovery  don’t wait  around  you’ve now made the aggressive decision to ask for a trial in may  ,you didn’t have to do that  you could  have had a designated complex and we could have set it for 2025,december of 2025 any time you wanted it” 

so  since they asked for it, if they’re going to  make such a move they better do it quick  said  Brian MCmonagle

a  youtube question

is his dream team in attendance today, he’sassembled awhole new legal team, an appel attorney , not sure exactly who was accompanying him today ,we know that mark  agnifilo was maybe we found a little bit more about his team .

a question from marissa mcGill

will he be  charged in any other state or his time will be consecutive and one. we really won’t know until we see how things unfold.

well it was in new  york because a lot of the conduct could have been centered  here but if you take the  allegations  as true and there was  conduct in california too .

was there a conversation between newy york prosecutors  and california prosecutors about this or  maybe this was just alway new york-based and this is wher it’s going  to be.

there may have been  a conversation and new york have decided we’re going  to go forward with it.

 famous joker of you tube.

do you think it’s only combs or is there one person in background someone with more power?

Brian MCmonagle  get  the question from famous joker but  he really  think that you’re looking at the guy. that the tip of the iceberg  brian think there is an iceberg but he ‘s not so sure that there’s anybody abow him that the feds are too interested in ,this was his party and they want him to pay for it .

if so much of this is documented on videos and text messages and witness accounts do you even need  the testimony of sean combs now . of course  taking a  deal  is optimal  you can save the pain of having these witnesses testify  and talk about what happened to them.

the expense the time of a trial but  you don’t even  need him as a cooperating witness , they  want to prosecute him.

and  in his trial he’s probably not going  to want to say a word.

 A  question to  Brian MCmonagle

do you think that sean  combs would take the stand in his own defends?

Brian MCmonagle  well i mean that’s usually not the rule it’s usually not the game pla but when you’re dealing with a case like this where there has to be some questions answered sometimes the best person to answer them is the defendant himself he’s eloquent he’s smart,he gets it this might be  one of those  cases where you do that particularly if some of the evidence  has  to be explained 

we talked about the video  i mean you knwo you got to explain that video  otherwise you’re just a vicious bad guy  there may be text messages he has to explain there may be video evidence we haven’t seen that has to be explained  who’s going to explain it? 

you know  they said that it’s going to take a week to try it ,well, you know there’s  eight hours in a  court  day that’s  a lot of witnesses for one  week ,  Brian MCmonagle  want to know who these witnesses are and if  sean combs isn’t among  them , it would be the norm but it might not be what this case takes from the defense perspective.

that’s a good point so if you take their  argument as true that this would take one  week to defend what kind of witnesses would they call?who  would they call ? would they call…other than cross -examineing the state’s  alleged victims and  trying  to point to the fact that  this was consensual behavior they call male sex workers to say that all of this was on the up and up and  consensual other than the fact  that you’re hiring  male prostitutes to participate in this  activities but yeah.consensual

 that’s going to be the rubber hits the road  in this  case  Brian MCmonagle  mean you’re going to haveto  establish that all this people  were paid for and came in willing and knowing and agreed to the conduct they engaged in and they may be the most important  witnesses in the case if the defense has them.  so it’ll be interesting  to see but a lot to be determined between  now and  then  a lot of decisions for the defense to make  Brian MCmonagle  have seen people make that argument and the  defense case takes one day.

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if the celebs that appear knew or participated in these crimes are  identifitied will they be under police persecution arrest

it depesnds on what their participation was, did they cover up evidence did they take an active role in things or were they just merely bystander who saw things.

 more coverage

you looking at a live view right now outside the new york   federal courthouse whith  sean combs just had a status hearing where his attorneys and the prosecutors and a  number of victims issuses  regarding gag orders regarding

the government allegedly leaking material most  importantly is the discovery schedule how much material  there is in this case when its’s going to be turned over to the defense.

the idea that his defense team is looking for a may 2025 trial date very ambitious ,give how much  material  there is .

we wait  for elisabeth milliner   law and cri reporter who was inside that  courthouse to come out and give us the latest.

first thing first ,what about  the idea of may 2025

given how much material there is ,it’s a really ambitious trial date, if his attorneys are not sure if he’ll be released on bail one of his main attornays had said we don’t want him detained here any longer that he has to be so that played a big role in it.

it is suprising because this is a case with a lot of witnesses a lot of evidence so  it’s an ambitious goal.

the issue of bail

this issue is not going to be decided by this judge ,it’s now  appealed to a higher court-the second circuit court of appeals , in fact sean combs defense team filed their papers on october 8th two days ago they listed a number of reasons why they think he should be entitled to bail that he shouldn’t be detained  pre-trial.

defense attorney  ben shu who knows a thing or two about represented  high – profile  individuals he represented  johnny depp in his infamous trial that was covered  on long crime .

the question is when do we hear when  and if he  gets bail. the second circuit will act very  quickly  on this it’s obvisously a high -profile case

second circuit acts with electrity generally so it would come down with the ruling  fairly quickly.

-ben  shu

 right  now he wants bail, right now  he wants to get out of federal  lockup as quickly as possible  and that’s why he’s pusshing for a trial date around the corner.

but if  the second circuit agrees with him and say “yeah  you know what your’re right , you’re  released on bail his going to want to push this trial as far as down the line as possible  he  doesn’t want to be convicted tomorrow.

(crazy rumors  that  michael was at diddy’s party  for some freak off .)

which evidence seems strong but  obviously he’s going to put on a defense but he probably would  want to push this out .

ben shu completely agree because with time .the  more time he’s out obviously  he can enjoy that time or at least  enjoy it  more than he would in jail

and the more time he has  to find corroborating witnesses these sex workers who presumably will testify that everything was  on the up and up to the extent that can be on  the up and up that this  was voluntary yeah , time would be he’s   friends once he’s out on bail that gives him a longer time to.. memories also  fade which is good for him  since it’s going to be the prosecution that has the burden .

-ben shu

by the way ,this is  a live shot  from outside the courthouse , we just  saw who appeared to be combs  family and  associates leaving the courthouse.

we waiting to see if anybody will hold a press conference and provide  some more details here

does  new york  have the death penalty. it does not . so there’s still a fair amount of states actually that have the death penalty around 25 .

but new york does not .it abolished it in 2004.  but  even if it was  sex trafficking and racketeering wouldn’t be grounds to execute someone even if he’s convicted.even if  he’s  convicted there’s nobasiss at least within new york to proceed with that but

as far what couldhappen in other states we don’t know ,this is somebody who had homes all across the US not sure if investigations will start there depending on where the conduct took place.

but in new york it would just be  prison time  if he’s convicted.

a question for Ben.

tony busbee , this  Texas attorney has announced that he representing over a hundred alleged victims of sean combs.

that he plans to file over 120  lawsuits across the country he said that  at least 25 of these alleged victims say that theywere abused by sean combs when there were minors. how does that’s even going to look  how that would operate  but  this  also throw a second  question to ben . this is  from de janal  taylor  on  YouTube is there a possibility that he ‘s going  to be charged for the miners allegedly  involved.

(kevin heart like many distancing himself from diddy after mogul’s arrest.)

so two  questions , how do you even bring  120 lawsuits and B  considering we’re talking about that is sean combs   going to  be ultimately be resepect to minors.

ben have to be reminded of the third  question but  with respect  to the 100 or 100 plus lawsuits  there’s going to be a threshold issues if ben  representing  diddy, he would  move to stay,those cases pending the  criminal trial, that happens a lot in certain states such as california if you have simultaneous civil and criminal cases arising out of the  same  conduct .

anthony rico one of sean combs attorney but i could be wrong

this is live…

” this is  a serious proceeding with serious consequences and al lof us  are addressing it accordingly.nobobdy ‘s okeay with staying  in jail for now. that’s it  for today”

 so we couldn’t get much  from that but  it seemed that last point was nobody’s happy being in jail-which again seemed to be the motivation  for maybe why they want a quick trial date .

back to what  ben  saying though.  talking about how this texas  attorney would bring over  120  lawsuits and wheter or not sean combs  could also ultimately be charged with respect to abusing  minors.

(recently an old clip from one of those parties went viral ,diddy decked out in white ,standing on a balcony with a glass of shampagne telling everyone  is time for the kids to leave because the real fun is about to start. …….)

ben said yeah certainly and that’s adds  another extraodinarily disturbing aspect to this , ben  mean beore today a l ot of commentators were sayngthat this is what distinguishes his case with R kelly, that  as awful as these allegations against diddy are- and they are.until today there was no… ben don’t believe there was any suggestion that  any alleged victims were minors.

now if these allegations  bear fruit then yaeh thy absolutely can be the subject of criminal allegations  in fact ben  believe that’s how it worked  in this case.

that prior to the indictment of diddy there were the civil casesand of course of the relesease of the cassie ventura video so, civil cases can precede criminal cases and that is another distrubingfront for diddy

and his attorneys but ben would expect  that they would move to stay those cases pending the criminal the resolution of  thi scriminal case in new york

one thing first of all  ,there were allegations in the civil lawsuits  regarding minors who have sued him   said that they were sexual abuse when they were underage .

but  the idea of 25 minors a 9-year old being abused haven’t heard anything like that until tony busby brought it up but even rodney

Lil jones files the lawsuit against sean combs  insinuated that he was task with  soliciting minors of these parties or that was part of this case.

one follow up

is there a chance ,ben shu said ,he said the petition to pause the civil cases pending the criminal trial .if sean combs is acquitted what happens to the civil trial , the civil cases , they could  still file the lawsuit but if he’s acquitted by a jury and yes your’ dealing with different standards of law does that make them less, less likely to continue their lawsuits against him.

ben – i can’t see busby just  folding the tent  and going home , something  it would depend in part of about what happened in the criminal trial . ben means  of there were some kind of vindication then yes ben think that would be very  difficult for the  criminal

but  we saw in the michael jackson case of course where  there was an acquittal followed by civil liability

and OJ simpson there’s ample precedent for winning criminal case and yet being held for  civil liability so  ben wouldn’t think that he would so faint of heart as to give up and ben don’t think his clients would want to  either.

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are the victimes being protected  from diddy’s people? and clearly  it’s an  a fair question  inth sense that asuming they are really victims  they’e not  of sean combs  we know that .

his danger to the public ,his danger to the victims the witnesses  was a key factor in him denied bail so is there’s some mechanism being put forward where theyare being protected.

just by the sheer  nature of him being detained if all these allegations tun out to be true  they  get protection in that sense and that he’s not free to potentially cause harm to other people

but one of the things to also  keep in mind is a report this week about  how there’s still fear among the community of people  speaking out about this  because even though he’s detainded in prison he still has associates friends people who have  a lot of power in a similar position to him. so we can’t say what  how much they’re  protecting the victims.

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if a person is arrested and  the investigation is still ongoing but a defendant has the right to a  speedy trial is that right   in any way hindered by a lengthy ongoing  investigation like this.

we talked about it before , he wants to go to trial in may without  even seeingall the evidence, we don’t know if   he’s going to be with additional charges

it’s a bit of  a risk for his attorneys to ask for that again ,one of the reasons they  don’t want him detained as long- as short as possible they want  him  detained obviousy

whether they could  possibly get some sort of  extension dependong on if there’s more  evidence than they thought it  might  be a little  bit difficultas they get closer to that spring trial date  beacause then  you’ll have the judge saying” hey we met last year, you both conferred you both agreed to this trial date and also  given  the  public pressure to make sure that this  case doesn’t  drag on .

again  prosecutors  do want to make an example out of this, this isn’t something  that they wanyt to keep pushing for years to come.

back to Ben- question from  chelly on YouTube.

will the government use ex partners- presumably of sean combs to provide a timeline of his actions to jurors.

how is the prosecutiongoing to structure their case  if they have multiple people and maybe  muliple ex partners who want to testify  do they  structure  it like that  want to create a timeline?

 back to the  question

ben think that’s brilliant question and he somewhat sumple-minded like to put  things in chronological order because it’s a very logical way to set for the  case ,he mean sometimes  you can put together a case  thematically  which you want to do but timelines are extremeley  helpful so  the question is great  and if ben were  the prosecution  he’d want to have a very clear timeline  and explain that clearly to the jury .because ben do thingk  a lot of  jurors will also want things  in a chronological order

-ben

it’s  easy to tell , then  of  course you have to  deal with witnesses availability  when they can testify …when evidence is available  sometimes it gets complicated.

  a tough question-from george  jansen.

” has the  defense or agents tested the baby oil for other  narcotics. “

so the infamous that he had ,1,000 bottles of  baby oil  presumably to facilitate or be used in these freak off  sessions ,these coerced prolonged  sexual performances.

oh boy , didn’t  know that was going  to be a statement   i  ever  wrote , but  does this  baby oil is going  to be tested .

if it hasn’t been tested before  ben is  sure the prosecutors they ‘ll be testing it now.

wow , that’s the ffirst mistake  but true.  i don’t know , if it’an open bottle maybe his  DNAs  on it .it’s a possibility , they referenced that in the indictment they also did reference the possibility of  being under the influence of narcotics so, anything  that they can get  their hands on to obtain any sort of physical  evidence  wouldn’t put ot åast the, ,why not.

because  people were shocked at how  inebriated they were how intoxicated they were – it’s a fair question,it’s a good  question.

a civil law question

a litigation question for Ben

“why is  tony busbee accepting  settlements”

so the idea is and this is based on the reporting   and i believe he told this to TMZ that people  have allready come to him high-profile people and  are paying up to not be sued  to not be apart of this .

ben says that’s very unusual but   creative on his part  and might  give  him and his clients a war chest to go forward  against other   defendeants but that’s quite  unusual at this point. Ben can   certainly understand the incentive of these potential defandants to get out of the way of what will be a very unpleasant and expensive  procedure, that’s creative on his part.

and they do not want any part of them  named in  anything with rescept to sean combs  he’s radioactive right now they don’t want  to be a part of that .

does that mean that those claims are true or does it mean they just don’t want the headache of litigation.

and B will  we ever know?who this people are that settled?

well those are great questions a lot of lay people might  assume not the sophisticated  viewers of  this show but there are people out there who would  assume that any settlement means that the  person who’s paying money is guilty or is liable  and that’s not the case  we all know that  people settle cases for any number of reasons to avoid embarrassment to invoid expense so it  doesn’t  connote guilt or innocence or liability

but Ben think it’s  difficult  ben don’t know if you’re representing  plantif  X  and your haver resolved the case for  platif B what if there’s evidence in the case that you’ve settled and you’ve  have some kind of  protective order barring  the  use of that  evidence.

Ben doesn’t know how you can do that without prejudicing your other potential clients  -if that makes sens….

that’s a good way to look at that ,i got  to process that one  for  a  second.

again let me just set thee stage about what’ s happening.

this hearing has concluded there were a number of issues that were decid or at least discussed regarding discovery  a trial date we are waiting for  elisabeth milner  to come out and give us a break down of everything  that happened in  court

as we do we taking a question

actually 2 questions.

assuming  these allegations are true , right a sean combs was arrested why has this really only  come to light now? especially  as details appear to happened decades ago.

it’s a good point-pintpoint back  to november 3023 when cassie ventura filed a lawsuit imagine that there’s a lot of fear in a lot of people in coming forward with their claims with someone who did  hold a lot of power  does  have  enourmous  resources 

 when she filed that lawsuit,it gave bravery for other people come forward and when  prosecutors saw that it was really helpful for them to be able to actually build their case .

because  before she filed her lawsuit a lot of this things maybe they were known in the industry or his friends but the public didn’t really have knowledge about it.

he didn’t have a great answer for that or maybe he didn’t  want to reveal it at that point

final question to Ben 

this is from kyle lawrence music.” will his federal case greatly impact his  individual civil cases and if  convicted will he have to serve his sentences  concurrently .

that will be up to the judge as to whether the sentences are served concurrently that’s going to be determined after the trial  Ben think it’s a practical  matter of convictionin the criminal case  will  definitely have an impact on the civil cases because the criminal standard of beyond a reasonable  doubt is so much higher than the civil standard 

but of course  if he’s convicted  of any of these crimes civil liability is the least of his concerns because  he’s going to be deprived of his personal  liberty for the rest of his life .

-Ben

that seems to be his main  focus right  now.

 our special coverage of the sean diddy combs status hearing  that happened today outside of  or  inside  new york federal court.

so what were the main takeaways what happened inside that courtroom

a lot of the arguments kind of based around the data that was recovered  and seized from the homes while  a lot of people  were kind of expeting there be arguments about about the bail or the bond,- that didn’t really happened

and the judge ordered that the defendant sean combs stay inside the MDNC – the metropolitan dententioncenter in brooklyn new yorkö

and so far as  what we know now may  5th is going to be the date tentatively that the trial  does begin.

going back to the evidence- all that data prosecutors and now have in connection to the case.

96 electronic devices were seed across three different locations that included diddy’s miami home ,his LA  mansion as well  a  all the devices that was sees whenever  he went to the airport because as we all remember  when the search   warrant were happened.

he was actually boarding a flight with his twin daughters  including 18 year old   dauther .  when the search warrant were happening and diddy was  caught up at the airport  theyseize different devices that time as well too.

so the data mainly  still has to be extracted  now the government was kind of talking about just some of the  devices are a little bit older so the government in turns is kind of catching up to the technology there

but they say  at the airport they seized  9  different  devices ,7 of those have been extracted so far

at miami 36 different devices were seized  and 29 were extracted and in  LA 51  devices were seized 24 have been distracted

they say the  8 terabytes of data that infomation could come about  in the next two weeks or,they working on the production – anothe  production of the subpoena returns.

the defense pretty much didn’t object to too much inside the courtroom a lot of people  were kind of expecting for the bail or bond  argument to be happeningbut that didn’t happen and it appear that the defense kind of pretty much complying with all  the proscutions arguments

and plan to kind of have everyhing  all good and set to go by may by the time  of the end of  the year is to  happen.

they did mention that a potential  superseding indictment could come  obviouslythat hasn’t happened yet but the investigation is still ongoing.

we don’t know  a lot of information as far as what that could look like but it appears that we  could expect more charges to come later on potentially by the end of the year.

that  is what we been  echoing a lot that we wouldn’t be suprised if  there’s  a  superseding indictment.

this really going to happen in may  this trial?

an Idea  of a may 2025 trial date ,if he’s thinks he’s going to be locked up obviously want to go to trial as soon as possible.

he putthing the prosecution’s feet on fire but all terabytes ofatata all this to go through. a production schedule .

brobably not but diddy’s lawyers may want to jam up the government if they think there’s any chanche they not ready in  terms of presenting the  electronic evidence or getting their witnesses lined up it may be part and parcel of the defense’s strategy to push this case to trial.

is excludedthe government technically has to get  this trial within 70 days.

so let me just  follow up on that , if he’s hit with a superseding indctment and we don’t know  what those charges could be, we don’t know if there could be multiple defendants we don’t know if they’re respecte to potentially minors i’ts  crazy to think  that there’s no  way this trial is then going to happen in may.

it’s  unlikely especially if there’s a superseding indictment involving minors ,because  minors present a  completely different set of circumstances because we know through his lawyers  combs  agruing that the sexual activity happened but it was consensual of course

for sex trafficking  you need one of those  three elements force,fraud , or corrision,obviously minors cannot  consent to any sexual activity so  that would be a very different defense entirely ,the defense would have to be that the act it didn’t happen at all and  the individuals are lying that’s going to be a potential  game changer if we do get  the minors wrapped up into  a superseding indictment

and we know at least if you believe the civil attorneys there 25 minor victims  one of which is as young as  nine. and those suits haven’t been filed yet but that’s what tony busbee this texas attorney has indicated that we should be expect to see in these lawsuits.

there was nothing  about bail and   that’s  not surprising  because that issue of bail has  now  eappealed to a cifferent  court-to the second circuit  appeals.

two question about that , number one :his lawyer did file  bail paperwork yes. this is the second question  was this his last chance for bail meaning the one the paperwork that just filed.

they filed paperwork basically appealing  the decision of the two prior judges denying him bail to the second circuit

technically if they’re denied they do have another higher court the US supreme court to go to but that’s  very unlikely this would be the final stop them  appealing to the second circuit.

first tey say we  have presented a very attractive bail package we have put $50 million secured by two properties 24/7 security monitoring from an outside security firm no access to phone no acess to internet  visitor logs whatever other conditions you want to put.

and they also said in their paper work ,sean combs knew he was under investigation since january his attorney immediately reached out to the southern district of new york even before there wer raids before there was charges ,was trying to be as cooperative as possible,he surrendered his passport to his attorneys his family surrendered their passorts

he tried to sell his plane ,he came to new york to surrender himself for the charges and he says that all theses allegations that he was reaching out to  victims and witnesses.

either A it can’t  be cooroborated,prosecutin hasn’t presented enough evidence  or B  it was innocuous conversations, it wasn’t something sinister as the prosecution alleges.

the former  judge that was presiding over this case had said when he denied  him the application for bail was there’s no guarantee that he won’t try to obstruct  justice in some way  whether that’s removing or  tampering  with pyhiscal evidence, intimidating witnesses-possibly  and there could be a strong likelihood of that  was in the indictment and what  a lt of the complaints are based on is  pattern of controlling behavior that he displayed, you don’t know if that behavior could spill over  to trying to prevent witnesses from coming forward speaking

and this  is a  case  that’s  going to rely on  physical  evidence the video of cassandra  ventura  being one, it’s alleged that he filmed a lot of these activities that are at  issue now  ,there’s always that risk

if high- profile  people have  settled their ccases financially  and obviously  quietly does that mean they also cooperated in some  way with the prosecution

tony busbee  this texas attorney indicated that he was going to name names  and he  told  TMZ  that some high -profile people  already reached out and tried to settle these claims

so this idea  they settled their claims already…are they   cooperationg with the government.

well that’s two  separate cases . there the civil claims and the criminal  now  theoretically speaking someone who is under subpoena in the  criminal case they have to testify even if they’ve settled their civil claim  that being said we know that diddy has a lot of money reportedly up to  a billion dollars bur certainly well over $ 100 million

and he has a lot of money  to pay off these vivil claimants so  being  prosecutor in this  case  you would  worry that some of these victims may go sideways ,they may be less than cooperative if they’ve been paid off in one of these civil  lawsuits.

your heard also this idea of the defense aleging that the government has engaged in misconduct they said it was the DHS agents who leaked  the 2016  video of sean combs reportedly beating cassandra ventura

this is a way to taint the jury that thay have been  speaking to the media about what they found in the raids , what justice would look like

those were interesting arguments that were echoed today .well the  defense attorneys say all sorts of things  and a Neama rahmani  as a former  prosecutor he don’t do  any criminal defense work  right  now  he don’t thin that’s entirely accurate for a couple of reasons

first of all that is  clear video of combs beating cassie  ventura  at the intercontinental  hotel in los  angeles  where the prosecutor himself leave. he paid $ 50,000 to get a copy of that video and  Neama rahmani know because Neama do a lot of CNN  who  was actually was the first to get the video that  video later likely came from folks at the hotel who retained ta copy.

so tothe extent that the defense  is making this argument it may be good for the court of public opinion

Neami  understand why they want to gag order to preserve  whatever reputation combs has left but  they  should’t be upset at the evidence because witnesses can lie diddy can lie -even victims can lie.

but  that video doesn’t lie  and we’ve all seen it so  let’s not forget combs denied all allegation from the time cassie filed this lawsuit in november 2023 even after the raids in march until may  when  that  video  became public he came out he gave that  i don’t think a very  sincere apology but an apology nonetheless

and Neama rahmanithin that’s how powerful video is so he don’t think  the defense is making a very genuine argument here .

and his mom released a  statement this past week seemingly acknowledging that he wasn’t  truthful about the allegations .

yeah  probably  wasn’t honest  because he ended up apologizing for what he did on that  video so the idea that he denied everything  he didn’t  do anything-him apologizing and the video  is questionable .

we all bee aware that combs had multiple NDAS  so account  to witnesses if someone  still has an NDA  does that  prhibit them  from being   a witness for either side in this  case

 you can’t technically use an NDA to prevent people  from  reporting criminal or  illegal  activity , so the  person who signed that NDA if they witnessed something happening,  something criminal one of the thing that’s being alleged in the indictment that  NDA wouldn’t  kiley hold up there might  be  that fear on behalf of that person comming  forward but if it were challenge in a court it wouldn’t  really hold up .

  how much of this evidence  will be public

it’s all going to be public  because we’re going to have a very bublic trial  unfortunately there are no cameras allowed in federal courtrooms and not new york either so law crime won’t be able to broadcast Neama say he’sure  they’re going to have great  coverage and the end of the day i fully expect thiscase to go to trial i don’t think  there’s any  possible  plea bargain that will be offered  certainly not anything that combs will accept so it’s all  going to come out the victims are going to  testify 

we’ll see  if other celebrities of friends of combs are wrapped into this as well either as witnesses od codefendants in a superciding indictiment so there’se been a lot of smoke  out there   a lot of rumors in innuentdo but it’s all  going to come to a head whether it’s march 2025 or sometimes later next yeareven if  he was offered a deal it would have to include significant prison time and he’s not going to agree to that.

how would diddy be treated in  jailare they  any special cells or more isolated treatment for celebrities?

highly dougt it , so he’s currently detained in a facilit i n brooklyn it doesn’t  have a great  reputation how it treats  its inmates and just the  general atmosphere obviously. but he’s actuallay more prone to  potential risk because he’s  such a high-profile individual.

and is his mother  being investigated as well as his sons.

there are som allegations against his sons little rod in  his civil complaint made  them now , as far as whether family members are under investigation it’s really impossible to know .attorney dame williams did talk about the investigation being ongoing,long crime elisabeth talk about a potential suerseding indictment today 

until they go to grand jury and that indictment is unsealed  we won’t know hwo in diddy’s inner circle it’s all  speculation as o who was involved and wheter they might get wrapped up in this  case

last  question

how do they find any impartial jury members- thats a great  question

it’s going to be difficult  on is that in this age  of  social media  and people  following on all  sorts  different social media plattforms they see a lot  when that video came out of cassandra ventura that was really difficult hurdle for his team to get over .

people goint to know about him they’re going to know about this case  there’s probably those  who’ve  even seen  that video the question is can you put any of those opinions to the side and base  this case purely on the facts and the law

sometimes it’s easier  said than done.-but we are not  at that  point yet. it’s not may 2025  and i still don’t know if that trial is going to happen by then.

Highlights

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested by federal agents at the lobby of the Park Hyatt New York hotel in midtown Manhattan on the 17th of September.

sometimes later ,diddy reappears on camera  with his hands cuffed behind his back as the feds escort him away.

the FBI took 1,000 bottles of  baby oil from diddy’s house.

disturbing details about  a notorious party drink known as

” diddy’s cocktail”

cocaine and   horse tranquilizer, that diddy actually feed to his guests.

several of the individuals who did in fact  seek medical  treatment were drug tested and drugs were found in their  system , drugs you probably never heard of  

one  in particular that continues to pop up  is a drug  called xylazine   which  based on our research is known as a horse tranquilizer.

if it knocks out a horse what does it do to a lady ?

the typical MO at one of these parties that have been widely discussed in the press  was that when you  were handed a drink – and now we know thhe drink is laced with something . 

if you refuse to drink it you were kicked out  of the party  let  that sink in for a minute…  the admission to this party was that you had to drink this chosen drink that was handed to you and now  we know that in most cases 90% of the cases these individuals were drugged with some sort of drug that’s was kind of the MO 

the FBI discovered a tunnel in puff ‘s diddy combs house that connected to michael jackson’s house.

Diddy’s $40m los angelse house has grotto, underwater tunnels and more .some are  saying that these passageways weren’t just for privacy they were used to transport people to and from exclusive gatherings.

and when we say exclusive we don’t just mean high-profile  parties we talking about  events that allegedly took place behind closed door away from  the public eye and with guest list that may have  included some very big names.

one  source  who claims to have worked at diddy’s home said that was always rumors about hidden  passageways beneath the property.

” everyone talked about the tunnels  we knew there were areas of the house that were off limits .its just the way things worked there .”

while this  statement hasn’t been  confifrmed it certaunly adds fuel to the fire.

let’s not forget that diddys house is located in holmby hills one of the most exclusive  neighborhoods in los angeles, this is the same area where the infamous playboy mansion stands and it’s not hard to draw connections between the rumors surrounding that mansion and the new allegations against  diddy.

 for decades  the playboy mansion has been the subject of speculation with stories of secret  tunnels leading to the  homes of major stars.

while some believe the stories were  just  part of the allure of the mansion others think they were very real  and served a much  more practical purpose allowing selebrities to move around  without  be seen.

if  such a system existed back  then it’s not a stretch to think that something similar could  be in place today.