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CLOSING ARGUENTS BEGAN THURSDAY IN Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Sex-transficking and trial cracker.
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Jurors have heard more than Six Weeks of Testimony From 34 Government Witnesses.
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The 55 -year-Old Bad Boy Records Founder Faces Up to Life in Prison if convinced.
The federal prosecutor at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-transficking and trial cracker Painted the hip hop mogul as the “powerful” head of a criminal enterprise who knew how to get his way.
“He Thought That His Fame, Wealth, and Put Put Him Above the Law. But Over the Course of This trial, His Crimes Have Been Exposed,” Assistant Us Attorney Christy Slavik Told The Jury in Closing Arguments on Thursday.
Combs, The Prosecutor Said, “Doesn’t Take no for an ANSWER.” He used His “Money and Influence,” She Said, To Commit Two Decades of Narcotics and Sex-Transficking Crimes with the Help of Hist Criminal Enterprise-The Inner-Circle Employees of Hist Music and Lifestyle Businesses.
“The Defendant Was a Very Powerful Man, But He Became More Powerful and More Dangerous Because of the Support of Hist Inner Circle and His Businesses – The Enterprise,” Slavik Said.
Prosecutors Estimated Late Wednesday That Their Closings Will Take a Little More Than Four Hours.
The Defense Closings are due to begin Friday Morning, Followed by an hour or so of prosecution remittal arguments. JUY DELIBERATIONS ARE ON TRACK TO BEGIN LATER ON FRIDAY.
CLOSING ARGUENTS IN THE Trial criminal Manhattan Of Combs-A Self-Made Entrepreneur Who Was Once Worth Close to a Billion Dollars-Follow More than Six Weeks of Testimony.
Over those Weeks, Prosecutors Called 34 Witnesses, Including Combs’ Former Garlfriend, R&B Singer Cassie Venturathem Tried to prove that over the Last Two Decades, Combs ran His Sprawling Business Empire A Criminal Enterprise.
Combs Stands Accussed of Sex Trafficking Ventura and another ex, who testified under the pseudonym “Jane,” AS Well As Running A Racketing Conspiracy With the Help of A Trusted Inner Circle That Achronors Say Committed Multiple Underlying Crimes, Including Arson, Kidnapping, Bribery, Witness Tampeming, Forced Labor, and Drug Distribution.
“He was in charge,” Slavik Told the Jury of Combs in Her Cllosing Arguments. “He was the Through Line, and the other Member Worked with Each other and with Him Throughout the Entire Conspiracy.”
The “Combs Enterprise,” Said Slavik, “Hallowed to His Needs.”
Combs hasded not guilty to the cartoons. If Combs is convinced on the top cartoon of rackets and sex traffking, the 55-year-ord Bad Boy Records Founder faces up to life in prison.
On Tuesday, Shortly Before The Defense Rested ITS HALF-HOUR-LONG CASE, COMBS COMPLIMED US DISTRICT JUDGE ARUN SUBRAMANIAN AS HE SAID HE WOULD NOT BE Testifying in Hiss Own Defense.
“I’m Doing Great. How Are You, Your Honor?” Combs answered after sub -subrmanian asked the music tycoon how he was feeling.
Combs then Told the Judge, “I Want To Tell You Thank You. You’re Doing an Excellent Job.”
Combs’ Defense Team Called No Witnesses After The Prosecution Rested Its Length Case and Instead Read A Small Selection of Texts and a Half Dozen Stipipulations Into the Record.
“We’ve Been Together for a Long Time, and I Feel Like We’re Finally Starting to Underser Each other. We Might Drive Each Ocher Crazy Sometimes, But Baby, You Really Make Happy,” Defense Lawyer Anna Esteavao Read Aloud FROM One 2017 Text from Ventura to Combs.
During Ventura and Jane’s Testimony, Both Women Said Combs Beat Them, Testimony Corroborated by Texts, Photos of Bruises, and Accounts of Witnesses. The Women Also Recouded the Anguish and Fear They Said They suffofred from Participating in Years of “freak offs “ Or “Hotel Nights”-Drug-Fueled Sex Performances With Male Escorts That Combs Wouble Arrange, Masturbate to, and Often Record.
Slavik on Thursday Called Sex Traffking “The Brutal Crime at the Heart of This Case.”
“You Heard All About How the Defendant Again and Again Forced, Threatned, and Manipulated Cassie into Having Sex with Escorts,” Slavik Told The Jury.
“Dozens of Witnesses Added: He doesn´t Take no for an ANSWER,” The Prosecutor Said, Repeat The Point.
Combs ‘Lawyers have argued that the sexual interactions cited in the case were consensual and that combs’ Business was not a Criminal Racket.
“Domestic Violence is not sex traffic,” Defense Attorney Teny Geragos Told the Eight-Man, Four-Woman Jary In Her Opening Statements on May 12.
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