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The Counsel

Note from Elie 7/3: The Diddy Verdict — What Went Wrong?

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you happy.

0:34.1

Well, I guess it will be a Thursday when you get this.

0:36.9

Well, we have the verdict against

0:38.1

Sean Combs. It was a little uncertain for a bit. They went into the break after the day of court

0:44.0

on Tuesday with a verdict on four of the counts, but they were unresolved on the RICO count.

0:49.8

On Wednesday morning, they came back very quickly and had a full verdict on all five counts.

1:11.8

This is a bad moment for the Southern District of New York. They are in for quite a bit of criticism as I'm about to level at them, but you can't win them all. I mean, I took my share of tough losses at the SDNY, so it's part of the job. You know, you have to approach the job as a prosecutor as I charge the cases cases I see fit, I put in my evidence, and then the jury's going to do what it's going to do. So it's

1:15.2

tough. It's tough for the prosecutors. I promise you they're having a not-so-celebratory beer,

1:19.9

maybe at the end of the day. I used to do that. Sometimes you were definitely celebrating.

1:24.6

Sometimes you were sort of in between. I guess there may be sort of in between leaning towards the downside with this one. Okay, here we go. Here's my analysis. Thanks for listening. Asies, but for all practical purposes, he has won the day.

1:50.8

Regular readers of this column won't be surprised by the outcome.

1:54.0

As we discussed, as I said before the trial, quoting myself, the jury won't convict Combs merely if they believe he's horrible and greedy

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