Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. Now
that Ditty has been arrested and he's been denied bail,
it's probably a good time to talk about the dump
that he's going to be calling home for the foreseeable future,
and that dump is the MDC. Now you're familiar with
the MDC if you've been listening to this podcast, considering
Glainne Maxwell was at the MDC, and there's no doubt
the place is a dump and it's a big problem
that's plaguing the federal prison system. Considering how much money
is dumped on the BOP, you would think that they'd
fix some of these problems. But we've had OIG report
after OIG report telling us how bad the situation is
at these lockups, and nothing's ever done about it. So
Diddy's in for a big surprise considering how different this
whole entire experience is going to be from the experience
he's used to see. Guys like Diddy, they never think
they're going to go to jail. They never think they're
going to end up in prison, so they do whatever
it is they want to do because they have a
bunch of they have people sign NDA's and then from
there they're just able to be as big of a
scumbag as they want to be. And they know that
people aren't going to break that NDA because of the
financial ruin that comes with it. So he knows that
he has them by the short hairs, right, and once
he has you by the short hairs, he's gonna coorus you,
he's gonna threaten you, and he's gonna make you do
what he wants you to do, at least according to
the federal government. And because of all of that, and
because of alleged witness tampering, the judge decided that he's
not getting beil and that was smacked into stone after
he was denied his second attempt. So Diddy's gonna have
to spend his time at MDC as he prepares for
this trial. And I'm gonna go on the record now
and predict that he has a litany of complaints about
the jail and about the conditions that he's forced to
live in. And my answer to that is, well, if
you don't want to be living in squalid conditions, if
you don't want to go and find yourself at the MDC,
don't diddle people. Today's article is from NBC News and
the headline Shawn Comb's new home, a notorious federal jail
has a way of breaking people. Lawyers say the situation
at the Metropolitan Detention Center known as MDC has gotten
so bad that judges have refused to send certain nonviolent
inmates there. And for those of you who have listened
to the podcast for a prolonged period of time, you
know that I'm all for prison reform. I think the
prison system's absolutely disgusting. I think it's garbage. But guess
what it is? What it is. Did He shouldn't be
getting any special favors, just like Lane Maxwell shouldn't have
gotten any special favors. Just like my loved ones or
your loved ones. If they go to prison, they won't
be getting special favors. But as far as the prison
system and how screwed up it is, there is no
doubt it needs to be fixed, and it needs to
be fixed soon. This article was authored by Rich Shapiro.
Sean did He Combs is used to living in multimillion
dollar mansions. His new home home is a notorious federal
jail in New York City known for extreme violence and
abominable medical care. The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was
the scene of two fatal stabbings in two months over
the summer, and in April, MS thirteen gang members stabbed
an inmate forty four times in a shocking attack that
was caught on camera. I don't know who needs to
hear this, but jail's not fun, jail's not safe, and
it's not a place anybody should want to end up.
The victim was one of the lucky ones he survived.
The situation at the Metropolitan Detention Center, known as MDC,
has gotten so bad that judges have refused to send
certain non violent inmates there. I mean, you can't blame them, right,
If you're a non violent inmate, you shouldn't go to
a place filled with violence. You should be put on
a yard where people are there for the same crimes
you committed. Blue collar, whatever it might be. It's always
wild to me when you throw somebody in a cell
who has I don't know, DUI charges or something like
that with a murderer, like come on, probably not a
good idea. Talk about people getting extorted, people being intimidated,
certainly doesn't sound like an enjoyable way to spend your
time chaos reigns. US District Judge Gary Brown wrote in
a decision last month, blasting the conditions at the facility
along with uncontrolled violence. The detention center has housed a
number of high profile inmates in recent years, including Sam Bankman,
Freed R Kelly, and Glene Maxwell. They are kept in
a segregated unit outside of the general population. Still, the
conditions are horrid across the facility, according to interviews with
more than half a dozen lawyers and review of court documents,
I have a client who spent twenty five years in
federal prison somewhere else, and he's like, get me the
hell out of the MDC. Defense lawyer Xavier Donaldson said
it has the way of breaking people. And I actually
have a friend who did some time there and they
said the same thing. The place is just an absolute gulag.
And of all the places that they served time, and
they served time in plenty of places, MDC was the
most miserable of all of them. A judge on Tuesday
ordered Combs, who has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering,
to be held without bail. Colmb's lawyers appealed, but the
ruling was upheld Wednesday. That means he's likely to remain
at the MDC until he goes to trial. Better get comfortable, homie,
You better get comfortable because you're not going anywhere. The
court has made its decision. Your bell has been denied.
All your billions mean nothing. Have fun in jail. The
facility came under the spotlight in the winter of twenty nineteen,
when a power outage left inmates without lighter heat for
a full week during a brutal cold snap. Conditions for
the detainees continued to deteriorate during the COVID nineteen pandemic,
when they were subjected to twenty four hour lockdowns. In
twenty twenty one, the Justice Department shut down the city's
other federal jail, the Metropolitan Correctional Center, two years after
disgraced financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death by suicide alleged suicide.
I love how they just say, oh, yeah, it was suicide.
The same people who want to question all kinds of
things have no desire to question what happened to Jeffrey
Epstein in that jail cell. Why because Bill Barr told
you not to. The day I take Bill Barr and
his word as the arbiter of truth is the day
that I jump off the George Washington Bridge wearing on
my little pony costume. With the most violent federal offenders
in New York now housed in the same facility and
official struggling to hire enough corrections officers, the MDC has
only become more dangerous. According to defense lawyers and the
head of the Corrections Officers Union, the agency as a
whole is failed to assist MDC Brooklyn with the staffing crisis,
hence allowing MDC Brooklyn to fail. The union head Ronda
Barnwell wrote in a memo to Bureau of Prisons officials
in June of twenty twenty three, what are you waiting
for another loss of inmate life? Well, the truth is
the powers that be don't really care about any of that.
What do they care if people die? Her questions proved prophetic.
First came the stabbing on April twenty seventh, which was
caught on surveillance cameras. The victim was sitting alone at
a table when a man sneaked up behind them and
pulled out a shive from his waistband. The man, who
prosecutors identified as an MS thirteen gang member stabbed the
victim multiple times. Two other alleged MS thirteen members pulled
out homemade knives and joined in the attack. According to
surveillance video obtained by NBC News, it went on for
about thirty seven seconds until a corrections officers showed up
in the housing unit, causing the attackers to flee. The
unidentified victim sustained forty four stab wounds to his back, chest, abdomen,
right arm, and legs. According to federal prosecutors, two shives
were recovered, one ten and a half inches in length,
the other five and a half inches long. The lead
attacker was identified as Luis Reeves, who was serving a
forty year sentence for a host of gang related crimes,
including nearly decapitating a sixteen year old boy in Queen's
New York hell of a guy, this dude, huh, let
me go ahead, and trying to capitate a sixteen year
old boy Scumbag's son of a bitch. The stabbing marked
the start of a spate of deadly violence. On June seventh,
another inmate, Uriel White, was fatally stabbed in the neck
at the MDC. According to the Bureau of Prisons and
the Chief Medical Examiner's Office. Less than six weeks later,
Edwin Cordero, thirty six, was stabbed by another inmate. He
died July seventeenth of a stab wound to the chest,
according to the Medical Examiner. And we're not even talking
about a prison bro We're talking about a lock up.
Imagine what's going on on these prison yards. Mister Cordero
was a victim of MDC Brooklyn's deplorable conditions, which were
fueled by chronic overcrowding and understaffing, set his lawyer, Andrew Dalek,
until the federal government gets its act together to make
the conditions at MDC Brooklyn more humane and secure, the
solution is simple, far fewer people should be detained there
a period. A spokesman said, the Bureau of Prisons takes
seriously addressing the staffing and other challenges at MDC Brooklyn.
That is why earlier this year, the Director appointed an
urgent action team to take a holistic look at the
challenges at MDC Brooklyn. The spokesman added. The team's work
is ongoing, but it has already increased permanent staffing at
the institution, including CEOs and medical staff addressed over seven
hundred background backlogged maintenance requests and applied a continued focus
on the issues raised in two recent judicial decisions. A
series of cases of alleged medical neglect have drawn the
ire of judges over the past year. And look, basic
medical care for inmates is something that we should be providing, right,
I mean, come on, but in these lockups a lot
of times that's not even something that they even care about.
An inmate, Terrence Wise, was found to have a mass
in his chest in February, but he wasn't told of
the mass or provided any medical care for two months,
even after he started coughing out blood, according to court records.
He was eventually sent in April to a hospital, where
he learned the canterers mass had nearly doubled in size,
according to court documents. And I don't know how anyone
could be okay with that. That's absolutely ridiculous. What's the
point in doing that. Let this man know that he's sick,
let him go get treatment and be done with it.
In another case, an inmate endured hours of extreme pain
with MDC staff ignoring his cries for help after his
appendix burst in April He was then forced to recover
from surgery without pain medication. According to court documents, this
is not an anomaly. US District Judge Lashawn DRC Hall
sat at a hearing for the inmate, Jonathan Goldborn in May.
According to the New York Delhi News, I'm tired of
hearing the defendants that are held at the MDC are
not being provided with the necessary medical treatment. A statute
in the federal court system requires defendants who are out
on bail to be remanded to jail after they are convicted,
but in January, US District Judge Jesse Furman went so
far to cite the conditions at MDC as an exceptional
circumstance that allowed him to leave a defendant on house
arrest ahead of him imposing a sentence. And look, as
long as you're not violent, I don't have a problem
with that. If you're violent, I don't give a shit.
You should be thrown right into this hell hole and
guess what you're going to have to deal with it
and navigate it for yourself. So that's where I'm at
with Ditty, just like I was with Maxwell, and just
like I was with Epstein. Anyone who's committing violent crime
of any sort of nature, especially when it comes to
a sexual nature, is a threat to everybody. So they
need to be locked up. Pretty simple to me. Furman
cited the facility's dreadful conditions and said it has been
found to be egregiously slow in providing necessary medical and
mental health treatment to inmates. To justify his decision not
to send a man convicted of drug trafficking to the MDC,
Judge Brown offered an even more scathing assessment of the
Brooklyn facility in his decision last month, which he vowed
the place of convicted fraudster on house arrest if the
man were to be placed at the MDC to serve
his nine month sentence. Brown described the conditions as dangerous
and barbaric. He also noted that each of the five
months preceding his opinion was marred by instances of catastrophic
violence at MDC, including two apparent homicides, two gruesome stabbings,
and an assault so severe that it resulted in a
fractured eye socket for the victim. Now, Diddy's going to
be segregated, but look, there's always a chance something can
go south. We saw what happened with Epstein. So hopefully
they got their shit together, which I am not confident of,
but hopefully they have it together enough that they keep
them in segregation and keep them under twenty four hour
surveillance the same way they did with Glenn Maxwell. You're
going to have to do the same thing here with Ditty.
The activities precipitating these attacks are nearly as unthinkable and
terrifying as the ensuing injuries, drug debt collection, fights over
illegal narcotics, resisting in organized gang robbery, gang disputes, and
as yet unidentic f brawls. He added in his written opinion, Well,
here's an idea. Don't gamble while you're in jail. Mind
your business, do your time, and don't let the time
do you. Too many people get caught up in this bullshit. Oh,
let me go gamble, let me get some drugs, let
me get involved in gang politics. Probably not the best idea.
And when it comes to Ditty, I highly doubt any
of that's going to occur while he's at MDC. Now,
when he gets sent up the river upstate, who knows
what's going to happen. But for now, he's going to
be segregated. The lawyer for defendant Daniel Calucci, praise Brown.
He asked a lot of questions, did a lot of research,
and satisfied himself that the place is a hell hole,
said the lawyer, Richard Kestenbaum. And look, there's no doubt
that this place is a shithole one thousand percent. So
it's going to be interesting to see Diddy and his
team try and navigate all of this. And my guess
is we're going to hear a lot of complaints coming
from Ditty and his team, just like we heard from
Glen Maxwell. And whenever you have somebody who has high
profile lawyers, there's a lot of that going on, especially
when you have somebody who is up against it and
doesn't have the evidence on their side, right because at
that point we all know it becomes a game of
loopholes and technicalities. So it's going to be really interesting
to see how this all breaks down and how his
lawyers decide they're going to attack this facility and the
conditions that he's living in. But if history is any guide,
they're not going to be successful trying to attack this
facility and trying to attack how much of a shithole
that it is. But I really don't think it's going
to work out for them. We all know how the
court loves precedent, and look at the precedent that's already
been set with Epstein, with Maxwell, with R. Kelly. Then
you add to that that the Bell got denied twice.
Did he better get comfortable because he's not going anywhere
for quite some time. All right, folks, that's going to
do it for this one. All of the information that
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What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. Now
that the indictment for Sean Diddy Combs has been unsealed,
we're finally getting a look at the charges that the
government is bringing against Ditty, and all of those charges
that he's been slapped with come with mandatory sentences, and
it's not something that a lot of people are talking
about because obviously the five hundred pound gorilla in the
room is the rico charges. But all this other stuff
is bad news for him. And one thing that's really
going to come back and bite him in the ass
and probably cause enhancers to kick in are those guns
that have obliterated serial numbers. You can't run around with
firearms with obliterated serial numbers. That's a ten year stint
right there, just on the gun. So this dude's looking
at serious time, folks, and he's in serious jeopardy of
going to prison for the rest of his life. Today
we have an article from Newsweek and the headline Sean
Combs case compared to R Kelly, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ditty
is Screwed. This article was authored by Jenna Sundell Well.
I certainly can't disagree with the Ditty is Screwed portion,
and I think that if we're going to compare what's
going on with Diddy to anyone, I think that R
Kelly's probably the right way to go. That's how this
is going to be prosecuted. And my guess is that's
the blueprint that they're going to use. Remember, this is
the same office that went after R Kelly as well.
So I think that there are similarities obviously between the
criminal enterprises of Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein. But we have
to remember that Jeffrey Epstein and what he was doing
was on an international level. He was bringing women in
from Eastern Europe. He was bringing women in from god
knows where, and these women were coming here and being
put up at a building on East sixty sixth Street
in Manhattan, all with the promise of a lucrative modeling
career waiting for them in the United States, but that
never materialized. Instead, they were sent out to go to
different meetings with people to try and collect compromount So
while there are similarities, there's no doubt they're both criminal enterprises,
they're both based on human trafficking. There are also some
serious differences when it comes to Epstein and Diddy, and
I think, in my opinion anyway, the more apt description,
the more apt comparison would be with R Kelly, and
I think that's what the prosecutors are going to do
when you look at the charges that they've hit Diddy with.
I think they're going to use the blueprint that they
built during that r Kelly prosecution, especially considering the success
they had with it. Right, they were able to naw
them and send them to prison for the rest of
his life with that game plan, so I don't see
them deviating from that course and going a different way.
I think they're going to pursue Diddy the same exact
way they did R Kelly, and I think when all
is said and done, we're going to have the same result.
Legal experts are weighing in on disgraced rapper and music
producer Sean Ditty Comb's indictment on charges of sex trafficking
and racketeering. Combs, fifty four, pleaded not guilty to the
charges on Tuesday. The indictment alleges a criminal enterprise operating
over a series of several years that involves coercing individuals
to participate in various sexual acts. So one thing that
we have to take from that is that them saying
it's a criminal enterprise, there was definitely other people involved.
So it's going to be real interesting to see who
else gets indicted, who was around Diddy and who was
working with them in forum, as opposed to the people
who don't get indicted, because those people have probably flipped right,
Because the only way to get yourself out of trouble
here is to turn on whoever the boss is, and
according to the government, the boss in this situation was Diddy.
Diddy is screwed. Niama Rokmani, former federal prosecutor and president
of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek the big takeaways
are Obviously, these are very serious charges. Everyone talks about
the racketeering and how there is potential life sentence, but
more importantly, some of these charges carry mandatory minimum sentences
in prison, and that's what I was saying earlier. There's
a lot in this indictment that's bad news for Diddy,
and I think that the guns are really going to
come back to bite them. I talked a little bit
about this on Twitter last night, and I think that
with the mandatory sentences that you see with these other charges,
I think that Diddy is in gigantic trouble. And if
things go the way that the prosecution thinks they're going
to go, Diddy's gonna end up going to prison for
the rest of his life, just like r Kelly. Kathy Fleming,
a principle at the Office of Kerman Litigation practice Group,
also emphasize the severity of the charges. To Newsweek, they
have alleged very serious crimes in a federal court, alleging
issues related to sex trafficking, meaning misusing the victims, and
there is serious time consequences if someone is convicted of this,
Fleming said to Newsweek, Yeah, no doubt about it, and
we haven't even talked about the Man Act or anything
else yet. And there's no way that this is the
last iteration of this indictment. It's going to be superseded.
They're going to add more to it. It's just a
matter of time. Trey Lovell, an entertainment and civil attorney,
spoke to Newsweek about the similarities between R. Kelly said
ex trafficking case and Colmb's case, And I think this
is the most important comparison. I know a lot of
people want to compare it to Epstein, and I understand why, right.
Epstein was one of the most disgusting, vile people in
the history of the world. And then you look at
what Diddy was up to, and it's very similar. But
when you really look at it, it's not the same.
They weren't up to the same thing. It wasn't international,
it wasn't for a compromise, So there are a lot
of differences. Does that make what Diddy was doing any
less heinous or disgusting than what Epstein was up to?
Of course not, especially to the people who were affected
by it. So I'm not trying to say one's worse
than the other. I'm just saying that they're different. And
for me, I think the better comparison is the r.
Kelly case. Now that doesn't mean that there aren't similarities.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't run them side by side.
We're going to. But I think that when all is
said and done, and we see the way that this
gets prosecuted, and we see the evidence that's brought forward,
it's going to resemble the r. Kelly case much closer
than it did the Epstein or Maxwell case. R Kelly
and now Ditty are representatives of high level, famous and
in this case in the music world, moguls who have
chosen to live a lifestyle which the authorities question is
illegal in many respects. Level said, and look, we all
know that these depraved ass rich people live a different
way than we do. They're up to a bunch of
wild shit, and they don't get off the way we do.
When you're a billionaire, you don't get off the same
way the working man does. I know that if I
go to the casino and I blow a couple of
hundred bucks, that's exhilarating, right, that's fun. You got a
chance to maybe win a couple of bucks. Whatever you
think that gets Ditty off of course it doesn't for Ditty,
It's something completely different, and that is something that he
certainly had in common with Epstein. Once you get to
this level, the depravity just increases, and it seems like
all of these people that roll around in this so
called elite society or up to the same bullshit. He
said that both cases send a message about law and power.
The government wants to make a statement that says, no
matter who you are, how much money you have, how
powerful you are, We're not going to let you get
away with stuff like this, Lovell said. Lovell also explained
what has caused the shift in prosecuting these cases that
have been ongoing for many years. I think it was
triggered by the Me Too movement. When the Me Too
movement happened and it cast this light on the dark
world of the entertainment industry level, said ROCKMANI drew comparisons
between Comb's case and the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein. R.
Kelly didn't have a whole lot of rich and famous
people participate in acts with him, but did he reportedly did,
and we know Epstein did, at least according to some
of the evidence. Even though a lot of those people
haven't been prosecuted. Well, that much is certainly true. And
I will say that the similarities between Epstein and did
He certainly have to do with the famous people that
they were paling around with. There's zero doubt that did
He had some powerful friends. But there's levels to this,
That's right. It's one thing to have powerful friends, it's
another thing to be an intelligence asset. And did He,
most certainly, in my opinion, was not that was he
a depraved, sick bastard. Absolutely did he have a lot
of high placed friends who are very powerful in the
music industry and in business, most certainly, And there's no
doubt that a lot of those people were attending these parties.
Does that mean they were taking part in all this?
I don't know. I wasn't there. I haven't seen any video.
I haven't heard anybody come out and talk about who
else might have participated. But it's certainly something that's on
the table, and I'm not going to say it didn't happen.
I don't know. We'll have to wait and see how
much more evidence makes itself available to us as this
whole process continues to evolve. But I would say that
there's a good possibility that other famous people are going
to find themselves caught up in this. Rockmani also raised
the possibility of other individuals being implicated in did He's
alleged criminal scheme. Anyone who participated in the sex acts
should be really worried. Rockmani said, there's a lot of
rumors down here in la I live a mile away
from Diddy. There are a lot of rumors that a
lot of other celebrities participated in these acts. I would
certainly be worried if I were them, because they could
easily be charged, especially if there is video evidence. If
you're on video and you were over at Ditty's diddling somebody,
you're gonna be in big trouble, no doubt about it.
The question is how many of these people were participating.
So what we're gonna do around these parts is we're
going to take the same approach that we did with Epstein,
and we're going to look at all the evidence and
we'll go from there. Because there's gonna be a lot
of disinformation. There's gonna be a lot of bs surrounding
what's going on with Diddy, what's going down with Diddy
and who he might have been associated with. So we're
going to take the same approach that we did with
Epstein as we work our way through this. Fleming described
some of the difficulties the defense will face if Diddy
does go to trial. You have to get a jury
who says they're a fair and impartial, which for the
defense is a challenge because a lot of people believe
if you're charged, you must be guilty. Fleming said, that's
an unfair concept and they shouldn't do that. Everyone's presumed
innocent unless and until the government proves its case beyond
a reasonable doubt. She said the media coverage could also
pose a challenge for the defense. They also have a
problem of pre trial publicity. That this is a big
story and a lot of people are writing about it,
and there's always a concern that potential jurors will read
about it make up their minds before they hear the
evidence in the courtroom, as opposed to what they read
about it in the newspapers and particularly the internet, because
the Internet is not known for being accurate in lots
of respects. Fleming said, all but the media is the
media has been lying to us for how long and
all of a sudden the media should be the arbiter
of truth. Still, sorry, I don't buy that. I don't
buy that for a second. And my guess is most
of you listening to this podcast don't buy it either.
Lovell said that the sheer amount of evidence in the
case can also pose some difficulties. Yeah, you think, I
would think that that's the most important thing. The evidence
in the case, and the evidence here seems to be
pretty overwhelming. When you have what prosecutors said is up
to fifty witnesses and victims, and you have video evidence
and physical evidence they got from the houses, and if
indeed it corroborates each other, that's very compelling. Lovell said.
Prosecutors will also face some struggles as they argue their case.
According to Fleming, they've got to convince all twelve jurors
that the person they've charged is guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt on all the elements of the crime, Fleming said,
And they also have the challenge of they've got a
very famous defendant and that makes it highly watch proceeding. Well,
that's true, but guess what the evidence is. What the
evidence is, and for me, that's the most important thing.
All the salacious bullshit, all the nonsense. That's fine and well,
people are going to engage in that. But me, I'm
trying to get to the meat and potatoes. What are
the actual charges, what do they mean, and who's involved?
And then from there, well we can see where the
salaciousness takes us. Fleming spoke about her own experiences being
part of high profile cases. There are differences. The first
is that the press is out there and they do
a lot of investigative work, which can either help or
hurt depending on what the facts are. Fleming said. Another
part of it is that there's a lot of press
in the courtroom. People in the courtroom at trials, including
generally the judge as well as the participants, behave differently.
They're conscious of the press being in the room. Well,
we have an open system here in America, so they
better get used to it. Prosecutors must also face off
against someone who can afford a lot of resources. Having
a lot of resources can help a defendant significantly because
they can afford to hire not only the best lawyers,
but they can afford to hire investigators and find out
ways that they can help to attack the government's case
at trial. Fleming said. Witnesses called in the case could
also feel worried about facing the defendant. According to Rockmani,
they may be afraid of them, and he may intimidate
the witnesses. Rockmani said, while fame can often impact high
profile cases, Lovell does not think that will benefit Ditty.
I would think that based on the allegations and how
serious they are. I don't really think his celebrity is
going to help him, Lovell said. And I don't think
it's going to either. I think that Ditty's cooked, and
I think right now we're just at the point where
we're learning how cooked he is. Right, is he going
to be well done? Or is he going to maybe
escape with some lesser burns, if you will. But one
thing's for damn sure. There is no way that he's
just walking away from this, unless, of course, he pleads guilty.
But besides that, this is going to trial, and we're
going to be following along every step of the way
as it makes its way through the system and eventually
into the courtroom. All of the information that goes with
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