Diddy Trial Capricorn Clark Key to Racket, sexual accusations

During the first two weeks of testimony in the Sean “Diddy” Combs Trial in Manhattan, his name has been abandoned two dozen times. Now Capricorn Clark is expected to take the position on Tuesday first, cutting the third week from the government Sex and racketeer traffic box Against the millionaire hip-hop entrepreneur.

As an old Combs personal assistant and TOP marketing manager, Clark will be the highest employee to testify so far. (Tony Abrahams, former financial director For Combs companiesis on deck to testify later this week.)

Testimonials from previous trials cited Clark as a witness to acts of violence, an extortion of $ 20,000 and abduction, all the elements of the September accusation comb fights at trial.

Once on the stand, it could strengthen the two best federal accusations against the musical magnate: sex trafficking and racketeering, each carrying a maximum sentence of life prison.

The violence that Clark may have witnessed includes a 2010 dinner incident in West Hollywood. At dinner, combs have struck Cassie Ventura In front of other guests, testifies to Dawn Richard. Clark, President of Bad Boy Records, Harve Pierre, and other best combat employees at dinner seemed to do nothing, she told jurors last week.

“Mr. Combs struck Cassie in the stomach,” said Richard, singer of groups of bad boys Danity Kane and Diddy Dirty Money, recalling violence.

Richard described Ventura to double, then the order by Combs to leave dinner. “No one has intervened,” she said.

If he is successfully corroborated by Clark and others, this stomach punch – and any lack of intervention by the Combs personnel – could support the two charges.

The same goes for any additional violence observed by Clark, a longtime friend and confidant of Ventura, who called her “ceiling”.

So far, more than a dozen bodies of violence, almost all against Ventura throughout their 2007-2018 relationship in matters, have been described by eyewitnesses, of which Ventura herself.

Prosecutors allege that the fomentu of sexual transmission combs via strength and threats during these years, the beating and threatening it to comply A decade of “monsters”, a decade, “, Sexual performance with hard and often recorded on video strip involving itself, male escorts and interstate trips.

Prosecutors say that the threats that kept the conformity of Ventura included one of December 2011 when Combs discovered that She went out with rapper Rival Kid Cudi.

Clark is CC’d on a blackberry message in which Ventura, using the alias “Veronica Bang”, says Mom Regina Ventura About the threats of Combs to publish explicit sex bands and make “someone injured me and Scott Mescudi”, a reference to the name of Kid Cudi.

Clark could be questioned Tuesday about the reception of this message and any independent knowledge that it could have on its underlying threats.

She could also help the accusation to prove the accusation of racketeering, which alleges that combat employees allowed her crimes, in particular by obstructing justice by doing nothing, because during the 2010 dinner, Richard said it both.

Prosecutors say that the other underlying crimes of the Criminal “racket” of Combs include a criminal fire and the abduction, and again, Clark’s testimony could be key.

According to an earlier testimony, Clark was tangled in the 2011 Kid Cudi Flareup as an employee of high -level combits and a Ventura confidant.

The jurors heard two weeks ago, from Ventura, that Clark helped to prevent combs from learning the brief romance.

Ventura testified anyway during a monster in Los Angeles. By going through Ventura’s phone, Combs saw an e-mail Ventura sent Clark asking him to deliver the Ventura toilet bag to Mescudi.

Ventura told the jurors that Combs was so rabid, he rushed to her with a corkscrew in his fist.

Mescudi added more details on Thursday, telling the jurors that a jealous comb has broke into his Hollywood hills house and crossed her Christmas gifts.

Mescudi testified that Clark had called to tell her, in real time, that she was sitting in a car outside her house and that combs and an unnamed “affiliate” were inside.

“She told me that Sean Combs and a subsidiary came to her apartment and made him go up in the car to come to my house,” said Mescudi.

Asked details on how Clark was forced into the car, Mescudi said: “They have forced it physically.”

Prosecutors can present it to jurors as an example of the underlying racketeering crime.

Prosecutors allege that Ventura was a repeated victim of kidnapping, especially in 2016, when security cameras captured him as kicks and dragged by combs in the corridor of the Intercontinental hotel.

Ventura told the jurors that she was trying to leave a monster at the time, after being struck in the eyes by Combs – and that Combs was trying to bring her back to their room.

In another kidnapping alleged by prosecutors, Ventura was forced by combs to stay a week in a hotel in Los Angeles.

Testimony corroborated by an old PA last weekVentura told the jurors that she was kept hidden at the hotel so that her face can heal to be brutally trampled by combs as she curled up on the ground of her SUV.

Combs denied all coercive sex allegations. During the preliminary procedure and the trial, his lawyers tried several times to show that the accusers of Combs are dissatisfied employees, rejected musical artists and rejected friends, many of whom asked for big wages by depositing civil proceedings against him.