P. Diddy Trafficking Investigation: Breaking Down The Facts

sea ​​Diddy comes more specifically from the raids that have been conducted on homes linked to rapper producer Entertainment Mogul if you are new to the story Homeland Security conducted these searches on these properties in Los Angeles and Miami reports indicate that this is in connection with an ongoing

investigation

in the Southern District of New York now the raids came amid several different civil lawsuits filed in recent months accusing the rapper and others of sex

trafficking

sexual assault rape domestic violence goes on and on It's absolutely horrible, but in around the time of these raids, Diddy was reportedly last seen pacing back and forth outside a Miami airport.

There was a video that circulated in which he was accompanied by some family members. Now, while the 54-year-old rapper was not arrested, he cooperated with authorities. He was not there. arrested, let's make it clear, however, I must tell you in the latest development, Diddy's alleged drug mule associate, Brendan Paul, was arrested in charge, but with possession of cocaine and marijuana. Now Coles' lawyer, Aaron Dyer, responded to the raids yesterday by saying, quote, yesterday that there was excessive use of force at a military level when search warrants were executed at Mr. Colm's residences. There is no excuse for the excessive display of force and hostility shown by the authorities or the way his children and employees were treated.

Dyer went on to say that the raids were cited as premature. rush to judgment against Mr. Colmes, which is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits, no criminal activity or civil liability has been found with any of those accusations. Mr. Colmes is innocent and will continue to fight every day. To brighten your day, your name now remember that Colmes has not been criminally charged in connection with any of these allegations, one of those lawsuits has already been settled, the others are still ongoing, so that's correct, there has not been, there has been found guilty of nothing. has not been charged, there is no liability yet, but as the story develops we will bring you the latest and in the meantime, there is a lot to dig into, we will dive into this live chat, live Q&A during the rest of the hour again Facebook X YouTube send your questions we will air them now to help me answer this you don't want to know anything else about me.

I'm joined by La Crime legal analyst Brian Buckmire, who's here in the studio with me, and retired FBI agent Colin Schmidt from Los Angeles, let's get right to it, gentlemen, it's a pleasure to see you, first of all, Colin, Were you close to the raids in Los Angeles? I think I should ask them that first and if their traffic has been disrupted in Anyway, no, no, I'm in southwest Riverside County so I wasn't there and that neighborhood is a little above my income level. Okay, let me ask you this, so we have a question. This is from Chocolo and me.

I'm going to say this. I'm going to really spoil these names. The first step is to admit it. I'm going to really spoil these names. Chocolo ate milk from YouTube H FBI I thought it was Homeland Security that rated Diddy's Mansions because their specialty is investigating human

trafficking

. I'm telling you, Colin, just a general idea about the fact that national security was the one that actually carried out the raid. Well, they have the same authorities as the FBI and they rely on uh their uh their. connection to the border and a lot of the things that happen there, they have become much more involved in the human trafficking side of the crimes that are happening in the country and, frankly, they do a fantastic job and obviously had a lot of resources there for reason and I would be interested when we had that opportunity to see the affidavit supporting that order, so I'm glad we got that part cleared up, because who made it tells us a lot.

There is also a preliminary question about this that I now want to address to Brian. This is from Nikki's girl on YouTube. The question is: they say it's a trafficking case, so who is he trafficking? I understand that he is involved, however, who else is involved? It's a really good question when we talk about what exactly sex trafficking is, what are the elements that it would be involved with? Yeah, so human trafficking and then more specific sex trafficking is simply transporting someone that affects interstate commerce, usually just traveling across state lines and engaging in sexual misconduct in some way, shape or form, so that if you look at the Cassie lawsuit or the Rodney Jones Jr. lawsuit, where there are civil allegations that people were taken across state lines for the purpose of forcing them to have sexual relations that would be trafficking, it would be the individual that you're moving from one place to another or the person you're engaging in sexual conduct in that state or that area would be trafficking, it's a little bit different than you normally would.

Just think about someone putting another person in a vehicle and moves it to another state. They are the sexual activities that occur in different states. As you move them from place to place, that's a good point. I'm glad you explained it. Hmm, I want to turn to Colin for this, so this is a very good question from an equally surprising name: cats. uh YouTube ad I'm glad you admitted your addiction again, the first step is admitting it. The question is whether Prince Harry is mentioned in Diddy's lawsuit. Is it true or not. Now I can tell you, as far as I know, Colin in the lawsuit they're referring to.

Rod Jones' little lawsuit this is Diddy's ex producer accused him of sexual assault sexual harassment encourage everyone to check out the lawsuit this is actually the amended lawsuit right here I know it seems like a lot but it's actually disturbing to read to say the least uh my I understand that Harry is simply one of the people with a celebrity name associated with Diddy, which, by the way, if I repeat, I don't think there are any more mentions of it, but I think the biggest problem is when it comes of high-profile cases. well and we said the same thing with galain Maxwell and the release of all those documents, you're going to hear names doesn't mean they're involved in any way or that they're criminally responsible in any way, it's just a connection a celebrity connection with Diddy, does it?

What is your opinion about it? Because federal authorities have to be very careful and sensitive about who is analyzed in these types of

investigation

s. Well, I think a lot of times they'll put names in there. I mean, it's honest, I mean, they have to swear the affidavit, but make it even more lewd to get more attention. It's unlikely that Prince Harry had anything to do with this, uh, he was just, from what I understand, uh, from my news reports, he just attended one and he was just listed in the lawsuit as just one of those attending, but there was absolutely no inclination or accusation against him or against anyone in his circle.

I'll tell you if it comes out that Diddy or anyone in his inner circle is ultimately accused of the worst of the crimes we're talking about here, you know, sex trafficking charges, then get into a conversation like we had with the Weinstein case or even the Epstein case. Go ahead, those are going to be some tough questions, but we're not there yet, but Brian, I'm coming to you now because they're actually two questions that I think are equally important. One is from D from YouTube. Well, first let me do this. one, this is YouTube expat sharing based on known information.

What charges is Diddy likely to be hit with Rico? And then I'll also throw this one in for myself. This is D from YouTube. What is the sentence if you are charged and found guilty? So let me. Let's put it this way, we don't know anything about the investigation in this case, we know it's sex trafficking and we're connecting the dots as best we can and looking at civil complaints from five different people, one of them Cassandra Ventura. her name is Cassie too, that one was resolved so we looked at the other four so if I were a betting person looking at those civil complaints I'm saying I'm looking at Rodney Jones' ones and we're talking about Rico because he alleges that Rico charges in his civil suit, as well as human and sex trafficking, federal charge, if I'm right, I'm going to double check it.

I believe it is 18 USC 1591 that he has a maximum sentence of up to 25 years in prison. Now, the other thing you have to think about is that if you believe Rodney Jones' accusations are true and there are multiple trafficking accusations, there is a possibility that multiple trafficking charges could be filed, so it could be a trafficking charge. human trafficking which is 25 years or it could be multiple consecutive sentences so at this point it's speculation but you'll look at the civil complaints and that's you and I'm glad we also made it clear that these are civil complaints these are accusations that make up a civil lawsuit.

The lawsuit having said that you could have behavior that overlaps, true, you have behavior that is civil but also part of the criminal realm, but these are civil accusations, well, the complaint is civilly correct, but what they are accusing in the conduct and even in the civil complaint. They are criminal statutes run if and then you can take as we have seen and I am not making the comparison to say that Shan comes is like these people I am just saying that the process is similar right, you can make comparisons between Harvey Weinstein who had civil cases that turned criminal R Kelly Jeffrey Epstein, you may have civil claims that have criminal bases that someone can investigate and move forward with, so Colin, let me turn it over to you, we have Danny Q from YouTube, uh, what determines whether this case?

Is it federal or state Rico, I mean, we know it appears to be a federal investigation. Homeland Security, as we talked about, was part of it, so how do we know or what makes it federal versus state? Well, obviously, HSI went ahead and did it. raids and the concept of Rico spread widely, he is not charged very often because there is a very high bar to prove that Rico and basically a Rico is a company of two or more people involving Eng in specific illegal acts. or criminal activity that has been identified in the statute as and obviously human trafficking is identified there, so what he will be charged with, if anything, because he is innocent until proven guilty, we don't know.

I mean, that was the purpose of it. The search warrant is from HSI, who are gathering all the evidence and I'm sure they're doing tons of interviews and then if there are in fact ATT victims attached to this, like in the case of people who were trafficked people, they're going to be talking to all of them and wrapping this up and then I think this is going to come to a head pretty quickly because of all the media tension that's going around. Let me ask you my own question about Colin. Many people have been wondering why charges that are not in conjunction with the raid, why an indictment arrest occurred in conjunction with the raid?

If you can explain that, it could well be because they are based on the complaints found in those civil lawsuits, as well as some other issues or things. that determines probable cause, so the bottom line is that the US attorney's office, especially in Los Angeles, is not going to press charges one day unless they feel confident that they are going to do it, they have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, so I think the conclusion Here are investigators want to put together everything prosecutors are associated with this. They don't want to pull the trigger too soon because they want to make sure they do it right the first time because otherwise you only have one chance. too quickly, they may have to dismiss the charges or not arrest you at all, Brian wants to turn the next question over to you the way you can submit your questions to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, get them any way you can. let's move on to this question this is from JT baller 3 from YouTube do we have access to all the information presented in federal cases or not?

I know there isn't any interesting video because let's say an indictment would come out today or tomorrow, which one would be ours? level what would be our access to those documents what would we know well if the stny is carrying out an investigation in coordination the southern district of New York is carrying out an investigation in coordination with Miami as well as with Los Angeles typically what do they do when they have an accusation that they post on their social media specifically X or on their own website and they will post a blurb of what the accusations are and what they are accusing.

It's me looking in the future if Sean Colmes is indicted so you We may get that propaganda on some information we may also get an indictment but if that information is not presented to report that that was not your Gulf Stream and it is reported who flew out of the country and is then reported to be in Miami, right? Now, we're really in that early stage where everyone's making assumptions and kind of trying to fill in the blanks, this is going to come out very, very quickly.and, frankly, someone of Mr. Colmes' stature, I mean, it would be difficult for him to hide anywhere in the world if he really wants to hide well and if he also goes to a country that does not have extradition.

I'm sure that would obviously complicate situations, although now I want to ask Colin to continue. The question about the raid itself received a lot of controversy. I would say obviously Diddy's legal team says this was like a military effort, it was excessive. We have a question from Wheelie Pete.from YouTube if his house would have been allowed to be raided given that it was in the name of his daughter and the name of the record company now again. I can't confirm if that property is correct, but assuming it is, you talk about what was used there, you know, we had armed personnel coming in, people were handcuffed outside, quite a presence, explain to us if you think it was appropriate, just analyze That question a little bit, the first thing is to use a SWAT team, that's what they use there, uh, I might even have been bored with what the border patrol is, their tactical group, which is a phenomenal group.

The bottom line is that they were probably going to go through a checklist of reasons why they would use a tactical response and the number one reason why they would do it. They may have gotten information that there are guns in the house, and if that's the case, they certainly want to use every resource they have to make sure everyone is safe, also based on the size of that property, and uh, for when the time comes. The officers arrived at the front door, everyone would have known what their purpose was, so I think using those tactical assets was absolutely appropriate because they were concerned not only about their own safety but also the safety of the people there and they want to do it in a way appropriate. the safest way, the second thing when it comes to searching a house that is in someone else's name, no matter who it is, the warrant will say or the affidavit will say that there is alleged or probable cause of criminal activity. or there are indications of criminal activity and that's what guides those orders and I'm glad you brought that up because, going back to those lawsuits, if you read it there and take it all to be true, there are allegations of firearms possession.

There are at least two shootings that are mentioned in Rod Jones' little lawsuit involving Diddy, so of course we're going to follow that, all right, we have a question here, Brian, this is from K mam from YouTube, what it had to happen legally to allow. this raid before an actual arrest, do we know the probable cause? civil lawsuits, then, are answering the question there is probable cause, do we know what probable cause is? No, at best I can tell you the level of information. that law enforcement needs to jump into someone's house and start searching it, so that it's probable cause which, in silly terms, I always describe as the level of information that a reasonable officer would need to suggest that a crime was committed or a crime was committed. happens now, you need some specifics as to the nature of the crime, you could probably look at the civil lawsuits, whether it's assault or sex trafficking, specifically, probably, the video evidence that Rodney Jones says he not only has, but says which Sha Colmes also has because he has cameras and recordings inside the house, so if Rodney Jones can sit down and have a conversation from the time he filed that lawsuit in February of this year until now, he could give authorities enough information Let's say that of all the houses in Shan col we believe that Miami and La have the information that we are going to look for, we are going to convince a judge of that, let's get those orders, let's coordinate and get in.

He was talking to a former CIA. and FBI agent Tracy Walder, who was of the opinion that this raid occurred at that time to preserve evidence, there could have been an issue about whether the evidence was going to be discarded in some way, we don't know that we said that, you know Brian. Hit it on the head that if you read this lawsuit from a former Shan comes producer, it suggests that he had cameras in every house or in the different houses that he had and that he was doing this, he reached a level of comfort and therefore, The fact that they were raiding these houses is because the authorities believe that is where the evidence will be located.

Let me stick with you, Colin, because we have another question from YouTube queen Chrissy. Did Sha Colmes know that he? he would be raided the night before unlikely yes, I don't think so. I think he felt that he probably had the feeling that he was in a lot of trouble because of those civil lawsuits because he has the resources to hire very good lawyers who said the things that are in these lawsuits are very, very, very serious, but as far as he knows exactly when they were going to do this raid is very unlikely, okay Brian, let me turn it over to you, this is a very, very good question. he said these civil lawsuits happen, it was strange to me because he was actually reporting on this about three four weeks ago before Diddy's name was in the news so much.

He was reading these lawsuits. I said they are alleging criminal conduct. I wonder if criminal charges will be filed now that we see these raids. One of the things that was really interesting. One of the first lawsuits was Cassie Ventur and she ended up alleging horrible things against Diddy and other individuals, rape, you know, her gun possession, I mean, her, these. illicit sexual acts that were very difficult to even describe, she settles with him the next day and then we see multiple lawsuits occur. The reason I ask this is because Danny from YouTube says it was a mistake for Diddy to settle Cassie's lawsuit.

Good question, right? yeah, I mean, looking back, it's 2020. I bet you Sean is probably somewhere walking around right now thinking the same thing. There is a theory out there that it could be suggested that settling one lawsuit invited others to have other lawsuits because they thought they could get their payday so to speak and it was the culmination of all these lawsuits that led to a criminal investigation and under that theory that is very reasonable, I cannot tell you that it is true or not because I do not have the

facts

to support it. Yes, yes, I would say it's a bad idea, but on the other hand, if Sean Colmes hadn't solved that first case, the discovery process would have been horrendous.

You have to sit down for the statements. People can question you. People can question the other. Potential witnesses, witnesses can be called, you have attorneys like me who have what's called subpoena power, so we can call other people to come and testify. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, this might have been the smarter option, but I think. both were difficult decisions to make and he, I know he made public comments afterwards, well I should say written comments afterwards, but he basically said this is like a money grab, the floodgates are open, something to that effect, and clearly the statement posted by your Yesterday's lawyer is very consistent with this, this idea of ​​this is the witch hunt, this is, you know, he is innocent of all charges, he has done nothing wrong, colin, come back to you, I have a question from and I hope I'm not. massacring Stewie T from YouTube Is Stewie St so interesting maybe Stewie Stewie T from YouTube surely if his houses were raided he should be arrested and interrogated not necessarily uh they are going to trust the evidence, the

facts

of the crime and they We are going to follow their own process , so it's one of those things that we're going to have to see where this goes and I have issued warrants where I have arrested the target of the warrant for many months, even a year later, simply based on the fact that he was gathering evidence, people had to remember that the search warrant is an evidence gathering tool, it is not an arrest warrant, so this is part of the process and it may take some time before they move to the next level, if is that, Mr.

Colmes. is guilty of any of these things that people are accusing him of, let's talk about the next level, this is a very good question, we have great questions from our viewers, this is, uh, for Brian, this is Taylor from YouTube, would you have than go to a grand jury? for an indictment, this would be federal, yes, for an indictment, but you can also have a special indictment or as information that is presented only to the judge. I would hope so in a case like this, but of course, a grand jury is a secret process. We won't know what type of grand jury there are special grand juries that gather information there are grand juries that return indictments uh we don't know if they're going to go through one or the other or both uh but yes We're looking for an indictment yeah the most common form or the process To do so is through a grand jury, so Colin, this is another good question, it almost establishes what I would say.

I don't know if it's a defense, but I think this question. I wonder if it could be a defense, Shan Caesar from YouTube, is it trafficking? I mean, is it sex trafficking when the participants travel voluntarily, as I understand it, the man acts, it is very simple, if they are transferred for the purpose of purpose sexual that still meets the elements of the law and because the theory behind the law is if they can consent to travel in that circumstance because they may be under some type of intimidation or maybe, you know, held against their will, we just don't know, but to say that they gave consent to cross state lines for this purpose, you would have to talk to the victims to find out what the real story is or if we are minors and couldn't give consent Brian, what do you think ?

Yeah, I'm also going to build on what Colin is saying. Think about it this way, it's less about the journey and more about the destination, so if you consent to fly to La uh, but you know the destination you're going to have consensual sex UNC, that would be a violation of man's law or of human trafficking, it is not necessarily the reason for the trip, but the reason for the destination, I think. is the easiest way to put it, I think colum was also saying that and talking about these, so the accusation that you have these people, Brian, who signed nds confidentiality agreements, right, this is Johnny Infidel from YouTube, either ndas.

They resolved the lawsuit. NDA victims may have signed Diddy? They still hold or the ndas go out the window once a criminal investigation has been launched. In other words, can they cooperate? Yeah, so yeah, like the guy in the second part of your question. I'll make it easier this way, you can't perform criminal acts under confidentiality agreement. I can't walk up and punch Jesse Weber in the face and say, sign this confidentiality agreement and not tell anyone that I assaulted you, uh, that's not necessarily the way it is. Another component of that also works is that if you look at Ronnie Jones' lawsuit, part of his confidentiality agreement is that he was not paid properly, so the confidentiality agreement is a quidd pro quo.

I won't talk if you pay properly, so Ronnie Jones would. I'm saying my confidentiality agreement isn't even legit so it's a contract there has to be an agreement yeah yeah okay col let me talk to you this is from Nikki Hayes from YouTube and all the camera footage of security in which you have participated will be taken as part. of the raid interesting question because we talked about earlier, one of the accusations brought forward by Rodney Jones is that in the camera footage at Diddy's properties there is evidence of illicit sexual activity or even or even just blackmail, some videos that may tend to show Jones alleges some of these relationships, so again the question is: will all the security camera footage be taken and will most likely HSI hire digital forensics experts who will know how to get to those videos that are stored on DVRs? or computers or some type of digital device and they're going to take everything digitally that they can get their hands on, so here's what we're going to do: we're going to take more of your questions again.

Send them on Facebook Send them on YouTube Send them on X Twitter I still can't send them in any way, we will air them again. Any questions you may have about the Sha Didy com situation. I have a question that someone asked. question for me it's very nice always Overland from YouTube question for Jesse is the timing of this a distraction for something else that's going on why now was I betting man that sounds like a political question um I'm not going to say uh that's why I might be saying this no, I don't think this is a big distraction from something else.

I think the timing is interesting in light of these different lawsuits that have been filed and the different information that has been presented to the authorities and as we've talked about before the timing of the Reign suggests that perhaps they had a sense that part of This evidence had to be preserved, perhaps some of it was going to be lost. It's always strategic when these raids happen, but no, to say the least, I don't know. I don't think this is a distraction from something else that might be happening, okay, let's go ah, this is a good question because it's actually agood question for any of you, but I'll go with Brian uh Derpy cow from YouTube.

How long? Does an arrest warrant typically need to be issued after a raid, assuming there is sufficient evidence? Well, Derby Cal, it depends on the sufficiency and quality of the evidence, as well as the scope of the investigation and the charges against it. a person, it could be days, it could be months, it could be a year. I don't know what's on the electronic devices that were recovered. I don't know. I know there were some reports that weapons were found at both locations. Don't know. I don't know if those weapons are related to other crimes or if they were purchased and maintained legally, so I can't really assess what I would say is that law enforcement moves quickly, they seem to have enough people they could question. being the five people who had lawsuits and if you want some indicator, I'll pull this out of nowhere, uh, think about the last time you saw something like this with Keii D in July of last year, I think it was July 20th.

His place is a raid and then about two months later in September he was arrested, so that might be a metric you want to use, but again. It depends on the amount and quality of the evidence, so Brian let me stay with you for a second talking about when we might see a charge because you and I were talking during the break about what might have been found at the residence. The reason I say this is because XX Toxic God XX from YouTube uh law crime Network they found something in Diddy's houses and if so, will it be used against him?

Please let us know if you found anything that could bring charges sooner rather than later so at least in the report I know they say they found Electronics, now the question is what's on those electronic devices, are we talking about Sean Combes and his family celebrating a birthday or are we talking about some of those Freaknik parties that Shan Colmes has been famous at? For those white parties where there are illicit and illegal behaviors in them, can you identify those people in them? can you contact those alleged victims to see if those actions were consensual or not because just because you see video recordings of people having sex, it does not mean, unless one of them is a minor, that that activity is legal.

You would have to find those people to see if it was consensual or not. Are they going to testify? Are they going to talk to you? This is another reason. why this case could be delayed and so when you look at all those possible questions, the evidence could be very strong if you can cooperate with the Witnesses or it could be absolutely nothing if no one else comes forward and you can't give full breath to the evidence that you've collected these are great questions, I mean honestly, fantastic questions, keep them coming on YouTube, Facebook in the middle. who wasn't dressed for the occasion, so you know, let's do it.

I have another question for you. Colin, this is another question from Shan Caesar. Whether excessive force was justified during the raid due to security reasons. Why were there civilians nearby? Good is. It's a trick question to say excessive, I mean, I think based on the fact that they found firearms there, I think the force was justified and not excessive and secondly, in terms of civilians passing by, we don't know the circumstances or when. They came uh it looks like they had a perimeter and they were all offset and they weren't in the middle of any of the police actions so I don't think anyone was a danger per se on the street and using that level of force I think they may have actually made it a safer situation for everyone involved, okay this is interesting we've talked so much wow they wouldn't do this unless they had something they must have found something in the house charges are imminent.

Chris from YouTube says: What if they don't find any more evidence as part of this raid, hypothetically speaking? If it happens. I mean, I've had clients that have been the subject of search warrants and they go in there and they and they don't find something in their Ci or their confidential information niche, whatever you want to call it, could give them bad information. A civil lawsuit may be just what Sean K is saying. A witch hunt and there is nothing to substantiate it and if nothing is found, then me. I hope and hope that the sdny comes out and says, you know, we've exhausted all options, we've talked to whoever we can, we've done our search, maybe we've done subsequent search warrants, but we don't have anything and therefore , we will not press charges.

Do you think I could do it if that were the case? Obviously, this is not good for your reputation. This has hurt it publicly for people who weren't following lawsuits like us, who maybe weren't following. Diddy's In-N-Out accusations over the years would he have a uh Brian? Would you have some kind of legal action against the government, not against the government, because the government can only follow accusations that are made to them by an individual and therefore you don't want to get to a place where if I lie to the government and tell him to keep using Jesse, I'm going to bother Colin now.

Colin said I assaulted him, right? I want my law enforcement officers to believe victims to the point of investigating. and get that information to see if it is corroborated or not now if the authorities follow all the steps they are supposed to follow and find out that Colin lied to them saying that I have no problems with the authorities. They did their job. I have a problem with Colin, so I don't think the government will take responsibility, but it will be the source of the information who made that lie if they find out who the sources were.

Who was the informant? I'm not coming for you guys, Colin I got it. I'm not going to lie to you. Colin is a little scary. He is dressed entirely in black. I can't get any emotion out of this guy. I'm scared, but like him, I like him, Colin, let me talk to you Jamie W Martin Martinez from YouTube, do you feel that the celebrities who participate in these activities will also be persecuted or do you think they will stop at Diddy? Well, another trick question, we don't know who. involved in which we have many accusations that have not been thoroughly examined or investigated.

If there are celebrities per se who were involved in activities, especially with minors, there is a very high probability that the federal government will go after them like Well, however, from my reporting, a lot of this may have been an extortion issue, so that there will be a lot of things, if that's true, there will be a lot of embarrassing things out there, so the Southern District of New York is very, very careful not to embarrass someone if it's not going to advance their case and to echo what What's been said here is that we just have to wait until we see all the chips fall, but here's kind of a Question related to you Brian um, I mentioned it before if these accusations are true and he's accused, that's the same conversation that we had with Jeffrey Epstein with Harvey Weinstein, it was just a known secret, the reason I asked that is because Tabitha Rose Freeman from YouTube What you're asking are the people who worked for Diddy and were aware of what was going on.

Responsible, even if they did not participate again, assuming that some criminal activity was taking place. Yes, again, based on the assumption that criminal activity was occurring. I would do it. Let's say we look no further than Ronney Jones' own lawsuit that says Shan Colmes is, uh, I think she's his manager or something, the person who runs his schedule, so to speak, that they compare her to profit. Maxwell left me. so her name Christina Corum matches as chief of staff compared to Glain Maxwell again, Epstein's former associate or madam. One of the examples is, for example, when Jones went to Corm to report on Combes, he allegedly said, you know Shawn will be Shawn, yeah, and Chris, and think about Christina Corm being one of the defendants named in both the original lawsuit like in the amended complaint for Rodney, uh, for Rodney Jones, so to that point, yeah, I mean look at what happened with the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein before he finally lost. his life and then also Gan Maxwell was subsequently prosecuted, so he doesn't necessarily have to be the individual directly participating in the sexual assault, but if he is organizing the sexual assault and providing the resources to allow it to happen, yes, he can be declared criminal.

Responsible, I have another question for you Colin, this is from Danny from YouTube, uh, um, how long does it take for the feds to coordinate two raids like this, two separate jurisdictions, two different coasts, well I can speak from perspective From the FBI, can you move? very quickly, they are already set up, they already have teams that are doing other things and in a case like this it probably took maybe a couple of days depending on the sense of urgency, phone calls were made and plans were put together. together and HSI got together and went out and took care of business, so to answer the question, it doesn't take long to do something like this.

Brian, very good question about something I mentioned earlier about impeachment. presented by Rodney Jones who has cameras on all of his properties videotaping everything that is happening on YouTube Ram's question, what would happen if certain celebrities were videotaped without his permission and consent? What could happen? So I think it would depend on a state. question by state because in some states like New York you do not need to have consent to videotape another person. I don't have it and I'm sorry, I should have prepared for this. I don't have a list of all the states where you need permission to record another person, but if it's in a state where you don't need it, then there shouldn't be a problem.

If it's in a state where you need someone else's consent to record it, that can be a problem. As long as they don't commit criminal acts, I don't think privacy extends to illegal conduct, there could be a caveat to that. I don't think you can say you know what, yeah, sure I was having sex with this minor, but you shouldn't. They have not been recording me during this and even if that is true, that is only about the video recording, it does not mean that the minor cannot be found using that video and then testify against him, so it is a closed avenue but another. one could possibly open yourself up to criminality I think we have our this could be our first Super Chat of the day uh from Paulie 777 seven uh this one I'm going to go over uh by the way super chats are the best way to get your uh your question up to the top to that we can see it first and we will address it first of all, but Paulie 7777 says how difficult it is to bring him back to the United States again, assuming he is not in the United States, assuming he is. criminally charged how difficult is it to bring him back here to be criminally prosecuted Colin oh okay it depends on where he is if he is in a place where there is no extradition uh there was Rowan Palansky in that case where I think he was in France for over 30 years and never faced justice again, so or if he is in an extraditable country, for example the United Kingdom, it could happen quite quickly depending on his notoriety and the resources that the Department of Justice would put towards us.

Did you know? Let me stay with you for a second, Colin, assuming this is all true. YouTube's Pepe says how he got away with so many alleged assault charges over the last two decades, in other words if he was involved in criminal offenses for years why wasn't he properly investigated or arrested beforehand and obviously we still don't have much information. These are allegations in a civil law, so we don't know what the context of this investigation is, but it's a fair question to, well, speculate. you know there may have been a culture of intimidation to keep people quiet. um, he is a very powerful person in the entertainment industry, uh, he has a lot of powerful friends, if any of this is true, we don't know if it's true, there may have been enough intimidation to get people to stay quiet or play tag. ball or were involved in the acts as well.

The same question could be asked of the Harvey Weinstein issue because that also lasted for several decades. If that is. why do I keep saying he's charged those questions are going to resurface about this was just a known secret why nothing happened before we're still not at that point yet, again he hasn't been criminally charged and no one in his camp has been charged criminally in connection with this sex trafficking and human trafficking investigation, Brian, we're coming with you, we have a question from Eiser 8 from YouTube. If the individual flew someone from a jurisdiction where the person was not of legal age and the suspect flew them to a jurisdiction where it would now be considered legal that would be sex trafficking welcome to the bar exam uh this is your first question this is definitely It's like a bar exam question so I think you make the distinction between consent in one area and consent in another first of all consent and legal age are two different things, some statesthey have consent at a lower age than others, so I understand what you're saying, but it would depend on when they landed, whether that sex was consensual or not based on that age I guess. but if you do it for the purpose of evasion, I think that could be a problem in itself.

I don't think the federal government wants you to be like you know what I think the state next to me will allow me to have. sex with a 16 year old, so I'm just going to transport them across state lines. I think that can still be a problem with sex trafficking and, um, the man act because the purpose for which you travel is basically you're trying to find a loophole in the law, right, this is a good question about privacy and sensitivity. I'll do it for you, Colin, because if an accusation comes up, I think it's going to It would be very interesting to know who was a victim that was victimized here because Teresa super from YouTube says that those who have been trafficked have been identified again assuming that there really is a crime of trafficking, but have those who have been trafficked been identified?

Are there missing people? that will meet with the family, well once again, it's an investigation, there are a lot of moving parts here, there is a high probability that HSI already has some victims that they have interviewed, but the big purpose of that search warrant is to determine if there are more victims out there or if there are any of these victims that are being held against their will and some other property because the number one purpose of these types of activities or enforcement actions is to see if we can confine victims and get them to a safe place.

I have a question. Samantha Ng's Super Chat. Thank you so much for putting the Super Chat on Jesse. Do you think Diddy ran away? If so, where do you think she would go? PS: I love your hair and you. You are amazing, well thank you, I'm glad I was able to submit it under my pseudonym. um no, really thank you very much Samantha, I also think she ran away. No, I don't think she ran away. There was something in the statement she was. issued by his attorney uh that leads me to believe that he could still be in the country um I have no reason to believe that he escaped uh or I shouldn't even say Escape that fled that is not here um obviously there It was this video of him circulating in a airport, but I have no reason to believe it's out of the country, but I'll tell you this, we just don't know, that's the bottom line, we don't know at this point, thank you very much.

Thank you so much for the compliment, very sweet, okay, let's move on, okay, this is it, I'll get back to you Brian, it's a question that's been asked before, but I think it's important to repeat it. YouTube's Johnny Infidel Asks If NDA Victims Can I Signed With Did He Still Hold On Or Did He Go Out The Window Once A Criminal Investigation Was Launched? Yes, for the record, the last question was real. I had to go to our slack channel to say: is that Jesse sending questions to himself? No, that was a real question Jesse has fans, but we'll get back to the real question I asked you, Jesse and yes, they go out the window, you can't, the easy answer is you can't, NDA crimes, the other problem It's also that it was the NDA completely executed in the sense that it is a contract, so there has to be something for something that is not talked about and I assure you that I know that in the case of Rodney Jones he is saying that he was a producer by Shan col.

On the last album, he actually produced nine of the songs on the Love album and was never paid the full amount. I think it was about $330,000 that wasn't paid or something like that, that number, that's why he's asking for such a low number. in the grand scheme of things in this lawsuit for missed payment, so if you don't meet the requirements of an NDA, it doesn't exist and if it's an NDA in criminal activity, the authorities can still come and ask you about and maybe You have to reveal that information because you cannot commit NDA crimes.

It's a great point. I think everyone should pay attention to that because it becomes a question in terms of what he supposedly could have tried to do to cover up. he hasn't been criminally charged he hasn't been officially charged he hasn't been charged in any way but there are some of these accusations that are coming out well so now let me go to another Super Chat column uh this one is for you, uh, from Travelers of the You are. Thank you so much for submitting a Super Chat and what a perfect question for Travelers of the Seas.

Hey young people, why wasn't Diddy's yacht broken into? Interesting question Allen, we don't know that your yacht wasn't broken into, it may have been, we just haven't heard or seen the report, and then if it hasn't been rated, it's simply because they didn't have probable cause. uh raid the yacht because HSI has the resources to do as many raids as they need and believe is appropriate and necessary, so once again there is a high probability that they have searched that ship, we just don't know, stick with You Colin, photoguard 690 from YouTube, was he on Jeffrey Epstein's Island guest list or did he have a connection to her on a level that could be a common connection to the allegations brought against him?

I don't know the answer to that question and, uh, but we probably get the answer to that question very quickly he got the YouTube tribe out of him. I'm going a little fast because we're actually running out of time, so your YouTube tribe, why do you think the FBI raided all your houses and them? They're not even in his name and he left the country the same day assuming there are many, which there are, so assuming everything you're saying is true, I don't think those are all the houses in Shan Col, he has more than two.

The only thing I can really speculate on and make Tales of is to get a search warrant you can't just say I think Shan K has X, you have to say I think Shan K has X, which is evidence of a certain crime. and that would be found in these places, there must have been some type of CI or some type of informant or some type of witness to say that they have set their eyes on some type of evidence that exists within those houses, that is the only thing that has sense. For me, I'm going to stick with you, Brian, another question from Danny from YouTube, uh, question.

Diddy's son, Justin Colmes, was named in Rod Jones' lawsuit. What evidence would they need for a case against his son? It would be the same against Sean Coles if he participated in human trafficking, whether he participated in sexual assaults or whether he was part of an organization like Rodney Jones seems to suggest that he created this Company under a RICO statute that funneled sex workers and trafficked with people from one state to another affecting interstate commerce and that his son, Justin Dior Holmes, participated in it and is also in this lawsuit involved in a shooting, as well as in a recording studio and also in part, present at a party where there were supposedly underage women, okay, underage girls, I should say, okay, now, um. cabbage let me go with you uh always Overland on YouTube, Diddy's life is at risk if he is to be protected if he is accused or called to testify.

You know, that's speculation. I mean, he has a lot of resources to pay for private security, so I said that. He's probably pretty safe with the people around him, aside from the fact that they may end up witnessing any of his past behaviors. Let me continue with you. Let me stay with you. We have 30 seconds, Queen Chrissy of YouTube. Colin, how long? is ETA about reviewing the evidence about Sha Colmes and his electronic devices that were confiscated during the raid depends on how much they took and it could be months before they get all that data, really fascinating stuff, gentlemen, what a pleasure, thank you very much . a lot for both of us, let's break it down for us really interesting, you know, I think it's fascinating to try to get a perspective on this when we don't know much if this moves forward, this goes to a place where he will eventually be charged, I imagine what we're going to do another one of these so Colin keep your agenda open Brian keep your agenda open thank you both so much for coming everyone thank you so much for sending us your questions we really appreciate it we do it for you and us.

I love having this discussion with you, so I really appreciate it. Continue to follow us here on Crime Law. We will always cover important cases and continue to follow developments in the Diddy case. I'm Jesse Weber. see you next time everyone