Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution according to an unsealed federal indictment. MSNBC’s Lisa Rubin breaks down the charges that Diddy is facing.
Federal prosecutors in New York unveiled a shocking indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday, alleging three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. While no one knows how this criminal case will end, one of the key types of evidence against the music mogul could involve any alleged instances of obstruction, cover-up and related behavior.
That is, prosecutors might wonder aloud at trial: Why would a defendant seek to cover up his conduct if he wasn’t doing anything wrong? On that note, prosecutors allege that Combs used his business to, among other things, “cover up his abuse and commercial sex.” Elsewhere in the indictment, a paragraph alleging various crimes also alleges “concealing the commission of such acts.
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