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Diddy Denied bail AGAIN
Dumpster fire
The untreated MRSA infection currently known as Diddy (né Puffy) appealed his denial for bail today. He requested to be put on ankle monitored house arrest and pay a $50 million (almost entirely) secured bond. He offered to hire a private security company with 1 or 2 personnel monitoring his residence at all times. (Even three of they really had to!) And Diddy would give up his cellphone and the Internet.
Diddy is the definition of a flight risk and appears to have been committing obstruction of justice when he knew he was about to be arrested so the new judge stamped a big fat DENIED on that request and said the proposed bail package was "insufficient even in the risk of flight."
Inner City Press's live tweets of the hearing, my summary below (it's technically shorter):
Diddy is claiming that the reason he followed Cassie into the hotel hallway (and beat her too, I guess?), is because he thought she had taken his clothes.
(If you have an entourage that can buy you an unholy amount of lube and baby oil at a moment's notice, they can get you some new damn clothes.)
The prosecution: "The defense is arguing that anyone in a freak-off wanted to be there. That's not the law. When people are threatened with exposure, and are beaten, they cannot consent. That is trafficking. Victims' heads were slammed against car windows."
A message a victim sent to Diddy: "when you get (expletive) up, you knock me around. I'm not a rag doll. I'm someone's child."
Extra details the prosecution revealed: The drugs that were used to get the victims to continue the freak offs were "GBH, ketamine, and others." They have documentation of communication between Diddy and victims that supports the claim that he blackmailed and drugged his victims.
Diddy contacted one witness that had been given a subpoena to testify 14 times before they testified. He also contacted a witness he hasn't been in contact with in several years after the grand jury subpoena. And he wiretapped someone.
He called a victim and tried to convince her everything has been consensual. He repeatedly said he knew he wasn't supposed to be speaking to her in the phone. He offered to pay her off. (Shortly after this the judge basically told the prosecution they had hit a point of diminishing returns for the hearing and they should wrap it up.)
The defense seems to confirm that Kalenna Harper is a witness. They say that the reason Diddy called her 54 times in one day before she made a statement about his latest lawsuit was because she was worried about the press and he was trying to comfort her.
Diddy's defense attorney trying to argue that Diddy is trustworthy: "We have a letter of intend to sell his airplane. We had 3 buyers who didn't work out."
Judge: "Can you get to the point?"
When the defense argues that everything that happened with Cassie was consensual and what happened is truly tragic because they were in love:
Judge: "What does that have to do with him punching her, throwing a vase at her - what's love got to do with that?"
Defense: "That was jealousy from infidelity- in both directions, Mr. Combs & this other person. The violence is from that."
Judge: "What is your point? And you say, they invited a third person in - if that person is a commercial sex worker, and they travel across state lines, isn't that a problem?"
The defense can sense this is going terribly since the judge was probably fighting back and eyeroll, so they bring up that Diddy was a literal alter boy.
Judge: "How far back are you going?"
Defense: "He watches a sermon every day."
I read this out of context of what we were talking about most recently in this thread, and I thought it was about Rudy Giuliani.mmmm8 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 2:45 pm I used to work with my office window overlooking their NYC flagship around 2006-2008 (during his tenure). Shirtless chiseled young male models made to stand outside greeting customers even in some of the colder months.
If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck....
I would have said "scantily clad cousins" thenskatingfan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:25 amI read this out of context of what we were talking about most recently in this thread, and I thought it was about Rudy Giuliani.mmmm8 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 2:45 pm I used to work with my office window overlooking their NYC flagship around 2006-2008 (during his tenure). Shirtless chiseled young male models made to stand outside greeting customers even in some of the colder months.
If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck....
marty
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2h
So their argument is they committed fraud?
BrickmanInGA
@BrickmanInGA
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2h
This is pretty stunning, actually. They're admitting in court that it was fraud to advertise "winners selected at random". Now we'll see if the US judicial system has any desire to indict the wealthy/powerful/white felons.