Diddy closed out day 29 of his federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking trial in New York with prosecutors resting their case.
However not earlier than a Homeland Safety agent testified about graphic textual content messages from a girl often called “Jane,” together with one the place she stated she couldn’t wait to lick his nipples.
Particular Agent Joseph Cerciello returned to the witness stand Tuesday, June 24) and was cross-examined by protection lawyer Teny Geragos, who introduced a sequence of sexually specific messages exchanged between Jane and Diddy.
The texts, in line with Geragos, confirmed Jane actively initiating sexual encounters and organizing what she referred to as “freak-offs” with intercourse staff.
In a single message, Jane allegedly wrote, “Daddy wanna see Mommy be dangerous tonight–proper?” adopted by a string of emojis and a sexually specific invitation to have intercourse in a restaurant.
One other learn, “I’m going to blow your thoughts tonight, can’t wait to lick your nipples.” Cerciello confirmed the authenticity of the messages underneath oath.
Jurors additionally considered about six minutes of video footage displaying Jane and a male intercourse employee named Paul throughout one of many alleged “freak-offs.”
The clips have been a part of a broader set of proof that included resort receipts, journey data and monetary transactions prosecutors say help their declare that Diddy orchestrated a intercourse trafficking operation underneath the guise of lavish events.
Diddy’s attorneys declare the messages from Jane show that she was keen to take part and that each one actions between the 2 have been consensual.
Following the federal government’s closing witness, protection lawyer Alexandra Shapiro moved for an acquittal on all 5 costs, arguing that prosecutors failed to fulfill the authorized threshold for racketeering conspiracy underneath the RICO Act.
She said that the federal government didn’t show that Diddy agreed to take part in a legal enterprise or that such an enterprise even existed.
Shapiro addressed the $100,000 cost made to resort employees on the InterContinental in Los Angeles for a surveillance video displaying Diddy assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016.
She argued the cost was made to forestall public embarrassment, to not impede justice and that Ventura herself didn’t need the incident reported to the police.
On the cost of obstruction, Shapiro said that the federal government did not show that Diddy used threats or intimidation to delay or forestall a federal investigation.
She emphasised that no proof confirmed Diddy knew of any federal probe on the time of the alleged incidents involving Jane and one other girl, Mia.
Shapiro additionally pushed again on the declare that Diddy’s monetary help of Jane, together with paying her hire, amounted to coercion or corrupt persuasion.
.The protection crew informed the courtroom it expects to wrap up its case by Wednesday and doesn’t plan to name any witnesses.
Diddy, 55, won’t testify. He has pleaded not responsible to all costs, which embrace one rely of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transporting people for prostitution.
If convicted, he faces anyplace between 10 years to life in jail. Closing arguments are anticipated to start on Thursday.
