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Jurors successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' national proceedings will perceive from a adjacent state of nan rapper erstwhile erstwhile Syracuse hoops subordinate Brendan Paul takes nan guidelines Friday.
Paul became embroiled successful Diddy's ineligible play successful April 2024, aft he was named successful a suit revenge by Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones against nan disgraced mogul. The euphony shaper claimed Paul worked arsenic a "mule" for Combs, procuring and distributing "drugs and guns." The erstwhile assemblage hoops prima was past charged pinch felony cocaine possession, which was later dropped.
Paul was fixed immunity successful speech for his grounds successful Diddy's national activity trafficking and racketeering trial.
Nicole Blank Becker explained that Paul whitethorn beryllium a important witnesser to nan authorities arsenic it attempts to necktie up loose ends and wrap its lawsuit against Diddy.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs' alleged supplier mule, Brendan Paul, is expected to attest Friday. (Getty Images)
"In this peculiar case, why [Brendan Paul] whitethorn beryllium important is because he is allegedly 1 of nan individuals who supplied nan drugs," Becker told Fox News Digital. "The distribution of drugs, giving different group narcotics to make them intoxicated and perchance do much than they would do had they not been intoxicated – that's a predicate felony.
"In different words, successful bid to beryllium this peculiar complaint of racketeering, there's sewage to beryllium a number of different felonies that they tin connect," nan lawyer said. "Whether it's nan coercion of women and/or they indicated astir really ... [Diddy] brought [escorts] in. That's 1 measurement to beryllium a predicate. You person to beryllium 2 of them. So, different measurement to beryllium a predicate felony is bring successful nan feline who supposedly is nan 1 who was supplying P. Diddy and aliases his group pinch what [the authorities is] gonna say, nan narcotics that he utilized [on others.]"
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Combs was charged pinch racketeering conspiracy (RICO); activity trafficking by force, fraud aliases coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful adultery successful a national indictment unsealed Sept. 17.
Throughout 2 weeks of testimony, jurors heard allegations of "freak off" parties involving antheral escorts and Diddy's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. The "Me & U" vocalist testified that drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine, were successful regular circulation during nan "freak offs" for her to disassociate during nan sessions.
Cassie admitted ecstasy made her consciousness euphoric and aroused, while ketamine would make her dissociative. She said cocaine made her bosom race, mushrooms made her spot things and GHB, besides known arsenic nan day rape drug, made her consciousness drunk.
Another ex, who testified nether nan pseudonym "Jane," told prosecutors location were times she felt coerced into edifice nights pinch Diddy and that nan Bad Boy Records laminitis still pays for some her ineligible fees and rent.

Diddy's alleged supplier mule, Brendan Paul, appeared successful tribunal to attest successful nan rapper's trial. (John Lamparski)

Brendan Paul was pictured successful grounds submitted for Sean "Diddy" Combs' national indictment. (United States Federal Court Southern District New York)
Jane recalled alleged instances of maltreatment while making love Diddy connected and disconnected for 3 years and up until nan week earlier he was arrested successful New York City connected national charges. Jane told nan court Diddy asked her astir coercion aft he allegedly forced her to return narcotics earlier having activity pinch a antheral escort. She testified astir Diddy's alleged convulsive behaviour and said he erstwhile put her successful a chokehold aft kicking and punching her.
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Diddy's criminal defense lawyer, Teny Geragos, questioned Jane astir her narration pinch nan rapper and her information successful nan allegedly forced "hotel nights."
Diddy paid Jane's rent done their "love contract," according to her testimony. The ex-girlfriend told nan prosecution she felt obligated to execute astatine "hotel nights" for nan rapper because he had threatened to extremity paying for her home. For "hotel nights," Jane claimed she was expected to dress successful lingerie and person activity pinch different men successful beforehand of nan rapper.
Audio released successful Diddy's activity trafficking and racketeering proceedings featured nan rapper calling Jane a "crack pipe." Jane claimed she was forced to proceed having activity pinch aggregate antheral escorts aft becoming sick.

Cassie Ventura wiped distant tears while testifying against Diddy. (Jane Rosenberg)

Audio released successful Diddy's activity trafficking and racketeering proceedings featured nan rapper calling his Jane a "crack pipe." (Jane Rosenberg)
Becker, who useful arsenic R. Kelly's defense attorney, explained why nan authorities mightiness connection immunity to witnesses nan authorities wants to testify. In Diddy's activity trafficking case, Paul was nan 5th witnesser granted immunity.
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"It is very common, particularly successful national cases, that immunity is fixed to witnesses if they person nan accusation aliases nan penetration that they request for their case," Becker said. "Oftentimes, those individuals who are fixed immunity, though they whitethorn person crimes that they are either facing aliases faced, they're usually a batch little successful nan level of crimes.
"They're usually little crimes successful which nan authorities says, 'You cognize what, this accusation that this peculiar personification has is truthful important that we are consenting to forego immoderate you've sewage going connected successful nan criminal conception aliases section now present truthful that we tin person you attest successful this bigger case.'
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"Their goal, i.e. nan government, is to get successful arsenic overmuch imaginable accusation from anybody who knows anything."
Nearly six weeks aft nan proceedings began, prosecutors indicated they'd remainder their lawsuit by Friday. The rapper's ineligible squad precocious told Judge Arun Subramanian it will request betwixt 2 and 5 days to coming its case, a stark opposition to its first petition of up to 2 weeks pinch witnesses connected nan stand.
Becker noted location were a batch of questions whether nan authorities was "actually proving thing specific" to nan charges Diddy faced.
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"Yes, location was domestic violence. Yes, location was immoderate … relationships and beingness unit happening, but does that emergence to nan level of what he's really charged pinch successful nan national court?" Becker said. "I deliberation astatine nan opening location were mobility marks everywhere. However, I deliberation arsenic clip goes on, what does nan authorities do?
"They conscionable propulsion up witnesser aft witness. Although those individual witnesses person their ain story, together they shape what they are trying to form, which is this measurement beneath P. Diddy, who's up here. And these individuals, each individual personification has a domiciled successful what they're calling nan enterprise."
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Becker said this was nan relationship nan authorities was attempting to beryllium to nan 12 jurors.

Diddy was arrested and charged pinch aggregate counts successful September. (Shareif Ziyadat)
"In a vacuum, if we conscionable had nan first witnesser aliases we conscionable had Jane, who conscionable testified, people, I think, would beryllium a small confused, like, ‘Wait a minute.’ Maybe telephone him a bad boyfriend, a bad person, a bad hubby for sure, based connected what we see, for example, successful nan video," Becker said. "But does that emergence to nan level that nan authorities needs to get to successful bid for an eventual verdict of guilty?
"I think, for illustration I said, astatine nan beginning, it was a small shaky. However, arsenic clip goes on, they are capable to put successful their different witnesses and really style what they're trying to shape, which is to basically, you know, this complaint of RICO successful nan United States. This has not, it was not initially made for purposes of nan measurement it's being utilized now."
Tracy Wright is an intermezo newsman for Fox News Digital. Send communicative tips to [email protected].