Ep 255 Diddy Trial: Are Federal Prosecutors Successfully Making The Case of Coercion, Sex Trafficking and RICO Conspiracy?
Crime Analyst
Laura Richards
4.9 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A former personal assistant to Sean Diddy Combs took the stand today in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of the bad boy records founder. |
| 0:08.2 | Now, so far, we've seen witnesses testifying that they've seen firsthand the abuse and control that Combs inflicted on his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and others. |
| 0:17.6 | Let's bring in CBS News, legal contributor contributor Caroline Polici for more on this case. |
| 0:21.7 | Caroline, okay, let's start with today. What were the latest details that were revealed in court? |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah, we're seeing witnesses come rapid fire today. We've already heard from three witnesses. |
| 0:31.4 | You've mentioned they're the personal assistant. But also we heard from Kathy Ventura's mother, |
| 0:35.9 | Regina Ventura, which I think was really important here. |
| 0:38.9 | She corroborated almost, you know, exactly to a T, the testimony that Cassie gave regarding |
| 0:45.6 | Sean Combs's potential and threat to release two sex tapes, one on Christmas Day. |
| 0:51.9 | She also corroborated that she had actually taken pictures and photographs of Cassie's abuse. |
| 0:57.5 | So that goes a really long way in terms of corroborating and bolstering Cassie's testimony. |
| 1:03.6 | These are contemporaneous reports to her mother about what had happened. |
| 1:07.7 | That's really powerful evidence, so much so that the defense didn't even attempt |
| 1:11.8 | to cross-examine her. She's a delicate witness, and so they didn't even want to go there. |
| 1:17.2 | But also, beyond the corroboration, we're really seeing the government get more into this case |
| 1:22.7 | of the racketeering conspiracy, right? They need to prove more than just the alleged abuse. We're getting into issues of bribery, coercion, obstruction of justice, things of that nature. |
| 1:34.3 | The personal assistant testified about several incidents, one of which was this late night encounter with Shug Knight in which guns were involved, prompting him |
| 1:45.0 | essentially to quit because he felt his life was in danger. Also, a number of issues of violence, |
| 1:51.7 | including one in which Sean Combs told him to report to the police that it was not Sean Combs |
| 1:58.0 | that had started a fight with his personal chef that she had started |
| 2:01.0 | at first. So that sounds a lot like obstruction of justice. So we're starting to add these new |
| 2:06.0 | elements into the case. You know, one of the key pieces of evidence that was revealed last week, |
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