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Prosecution Rests Case in Sean Combs Trial as Defense Plans No Witnesses

Prosecutors rested their case in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial. The defense said their case will take about a day before it heads to a jury

Prosecutors confirmed their final witness was Joseph Cerciello, the Homeland Security special agent who answered questions about charts documenting “hotel nights” with male escorts and more explicit video brought up under cross-examination. Recapping two decades of Combs’ life, the government set out to prove to a New York jury how the “larger-than-life,” charming, and successful hip-hop mogul covertly used his billion-dollar empire as an alleged criminal enterprise, whose members engaged in acts of physical violence, threats, witness tampering, kidnapping, forced labor, bribery, and arson. Bank and travel records, as well as testimony from Jane and Ventura, detail at least 20 instances where Combs’ companies paid for certain men to be flown from Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta to various cities, including internationally, where alleged freak-offs occurred sometimes just a few hours later.

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