Hi everyone. I'm Maggie McGrath with Forbes breaking news.

Rapper Sean Diddy Combs was arrested in New York City on Monday and today Tuesday

the US attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed the

charges against combs and they include trafficking and racketeering and more.

Here to break this down for us is Lauren Johnson Norris.

She is a criminal defense lawyer and the founder of the Johnson

Criminal Law Group.

Lauren, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start broad. How did we get here?

What is the background and the context we all need to know to understand this case?

Well, over the last almost two decades, Sean Combs appears to have been involved in a criminal enterprise,

bringing women to parties and using force and violence and guns

to not only benefit himself, but as part of his business model.

We saw in the last couple years that lawsuits have been filed, and I think it's that window

that New York opened for civil lawsuits in 2023 that really brought in the floodgates of allegations

against him.

We started hearing rumors about his proclivities and sort of his behavior over the years but it was only

until these lawsuits were filed that multiple alleged victims came forward.

Many of those cases were settled but I think those facts are underlying

what's being criminally prosecuted here.

Interesting. So it took those victims coming forward basically for the law to build a case against him and then arrest him yesterday and unseal the charges today. Is that correct?

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