Cassie Ventura is a Prostitute

Or so the jury concluded in Trial of Sean Combs, aka Puff Diddy.

Cassie is a very rich and successful entertainer who dated Diddy in 2007-2018. She is half Black and half Filipino. Diddy helped her promote records that made a lot of money.

The feds spent $10 million in a trial accusing Diddy of an assortment of evils including arson, but he was acquitted of the serious charges. They only found him guilty of some consensual sexual activities with adults.

Cassie was the star prosecution witness. I am wondering why she even testified. I guess she hates Diddy and wants to get revenge on him for events that happened many years ago. But she only convicted him of paying her to have sexual relations. I thought that these rich celebrities had agents and publicists to keep them out of such foolish actions.

If that is criminal, why isn't she being prosecuted? Is she happy about her image being redefined as a prostitute?

The feds were out to get Diddy. I do not know why. Even today, with him only guilty of petty charges, he is being held in jail without bail.

The other big legal case this week was Bryan Christopher Kohberger pleading guilty for the 2022 University of Idaho killings. He had no known link to the victims, no known motive, no recovered murder weapon, and no direct evidence linking him to the crime. He did not even live in the state. He was caught by a surveillance video showing the type of car, cell tower pings, and a small amount of dna on a knife case.

This the future of law enforcement. Instead of gumshoe police work, the surveillance state will provide all the evidence.

Update: The NY Times reports:

But former prosecutors and other lawyers who have followed Mr. Combs’s case said his acquittal on a federal RICO conspiracy charge, which carried a potential sentence of life in prison, was an aberration and unlikely to discourage the authorities from continuing to rely on the 1970 statute. . . .

Since the #MeToo movement, RICO has been used to prosecute high-profile men for sexual abuse. In 2019, Keith Raniere, the leader of the Nxivm sex cult, was convicted in Brooklyn federal court on charges of conspiring in a racketeering enterprise that victimized women through sex trafficking. Two years later, R. Kelly, the R&B artist, was convicted in the same court on charges that he participated in a decades-long racketeering scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex. . . .

Elizabeth Geddes, a former Brooklyn federal prosecutor who was part of the team that won Mr. Kelly’s conviction, said she did not think the Combs verdict would dissuade the government from deploying the statute. “I think that it will be treated with the sort of one-offness — my technical term — that it is worth,” she said.

Federal and state prosecutors call RICO an essential tool against many kinds of malfeasance. Between the 2018 and 2022 fiscal years, about 98 percent of RICO cases ended in a conviction, according to Department of Justice data. About 60 percent of the RICO investigations conducted in that period were of individual people. . . .

G. Robert Blakey, a University of Notre Dame law professor who helped draft the measure, has said it was never meant to be used only against mobsters. . . .

What gives RICO its power, legal experts say, is that it allows prosecutors to pull together allegations of misconduct that may stretch back years, even beyond the statute of limitations, or to include state offenses or crimes committed in other jurisdictions. Daniel C. Richman, a Columbia Law professor and former Manhattan federal prosecutor, said the government often uses RICO to knit a sprawling case into a single narrative — “a way to provide a legal framework for putting together a sustained pattern of behavior.”

But some defense lawyers, particularly after the Combs verdict, argue that prosecutors have used the statute to prop up weak cases and give the government an unfair advantage. . . . Arthur L. Aidala, a lawyer for Mr. Raniere, said he hoped Mr. Combs’s acquittals would have a “chilling effect” on the Justice Department’s use of RICO.

“This is a good example of how the government tried to use a tool in their arsenal and they misused it,” Mr. Aidala said.

The RICO law should be repealed.