Did you work in the Southern District of New York or what is the significance of it being filed there and can you explain a little bit more about these racketeering charges that your gym has, so first of all it’s a federal indictment, it’s filed in the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan and the Bronx and parts of North County, so it will be a federal prosecution. Typically federal indictments have higher penalties, higher potential sentences, then the prosecution is postponed and as everybody will know in a moment that’s certainly the case here, so this is an indictment of three counts against Sean Combs.
They will charge racketeering conspiracy in one count and what the indictment alleges is Sean Combs as well as other people who are not charged. But others I heard ran an enterprise and operation, which is essentially a business that engages in a series of crimes, those crimes related to sex trafficking. , actually the name of the indictment is racketeering enterprise, the Combs enterprise, that’s the title they gave to the enterprise, so that’s a case, now count one the sex trafficking charges against him are by force.
Fraud or coercion means that Sean Combs participated in transporting women across state lines for illegal sexual purposes. By force or by threats or intimidation, which is an exceptionally serious charge. If the prosecution can prove that. If they convict Sean Combs there’s a minimum sentence of fifteen years and a maximum of fifteen years and then there are three charges of transporting another person to engage in prostitution, that’s the lesser included count, so we have three charges.
Forced sex trafficking and then interstate transportation of Asians for the purpose of prostitution this is very serious and David these charges are extremely serious cases like this get filed in the Southern District of New York they do cases against powerful famous individuals all the time and very soon Sean Combs will plead not guilty and he will certainly plead not guilty to this and the proceedings will begin.
Yeah this is an extremely serious case. Josh Kamal let me go over to you and see or what you think of what you see in this indictment it sounds like there was a pretty extensive federal investigation here. That actually did take place and you know it’s interesting that we’re reporting based on the original allegations that law enforcement, tell us that the sources actually prompted this investigation, he was accused of obviously serious crimes, including sex trafficking including drugging women and now we’re seeing federal investigators lay criminal charges.
which is what they’ve alleged in this indictment that you know we’re all familiar with Sean Combs media enterprise, but they’re essentially saying that his enterprise existed for his own sexual gratification. You had all the employees that were essentially assisting him in this endeavor, including members of the security team, remote members of his household staff, other employees. As we look at that.
Again it was just an unsealed one in this indictment, I want to read you a portion. Which contains multiple charges, they say that in this indictment members and associates of the Combs enterprise were involved in an attempt to engage in a mine or to engage in either sex trafficking, forced labor, interstate transportation for the purpose of prostitution, coercion and and involvement in prostitution by means of fencing narcotics, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice, so there’s a long list of charges, of course Combs himself has said he’s not guilty, his attorney indicated that he plans to fight these charges, but you go back and look at, it’s a really interesting piece of work. How Sean Combs basically responded, these civil lawsuits, whenever they came out, he essentially went after the women who were making these allegations. At one point saying that with at least one of them being a man who was just watching.