PBD’s brilliant expose: Diddy case takes sinister turns: witnesses disappear, Comey daughter prosecutes

SEVERAL witnesses have disappeared from the Diddy P (Sean Combs) sex trafficking case in New York and speculation is growing that the once-billionaire Diddy was a bit player in a much bigger Epstein-style blackmail and extortion network.

The new chief prosecutor for the Diddy case is Maureen Comey, daughter of former FBI director James Comey. Ms Comey was also the lead prosecutor in the Epstein-Maxwell case that basically went nowhere. She replaces the former Biden-appointed prosecutor Damian Williams, who mysteriously stood down last December.

Various commentators are now wondering if the Diddy case will go nowhere like the Maxwell case and/or Ms Comey ensures that it doesn’t go “too far” beyond his immediate charges and the sleazy, salacious stories coming out in court to feed the drooling tabloid news media.

One of the big company names arising in the trial is the global liquor giant Diageo, the owners of Bundaberg Rum and most other liquor brands. Diddy’s 17-year business deal with Diageo to promote Ciroc vodka and DeLeón tequila ended up in a long court battle that ended in January 2024 with the company severing its ties with the celebrity in an out-of-court settlement.

CEO of Diageo is Debra Crew, a former military intelligence officer. Interesting qualification for a big business CEO. Could there be more to this liquor giant than meets the eye? Diageo’s bust-up with Diddy was when his troubles began.

Patrick Ben David wonders if Diageo was operating as some sort of “protection” operation. “Were they at the (Diddy) parties and did they know things that were taking place … what do you wanna do to us? No problem. Boom, drop the bomb. I don’t know, all I’m saying is the timing is kind of strange,” he said.

Diageo wiped its hands of its Diddy P deal in January 2024, and then in March the FBI swooped on his Beverley Hills and Miami homes and seized 90 terabytes of digital data. And then there was the release by CNN in May of the 2016 video showing Diddy assaulting Cassie Ventura.

“How long have you been having it CNN?” asked Ben David rhetorically. “Since 2016. You have not released it until now? No. Who made the phone call to ‘say release it now’?”

The tape release prompts Diddy to come out and issue an apology and his lawyers accuse the government of leaking the tape. This accusation was later admitted as evidence in the ongoing Diddy sex trafficking (and related charges) trial.

Ben David went on to list a number of serious charges already dismissed by the lead prosecutor. He describes the case as the opposite of the New York Stormy Daniel versus Trump case, that was turned into a criminal prosecution when it could easily have been civil.

Ben David also makes the observation that Diddy P didn’t just learn how to run an human trafficking and extortion racket by accident. He notes that the recording industry (Diddy’s main business) has a dark history of criminal activity, most notably involving Clive Davis, the former president of Columbia records, a division of CBS.

Back in the 1970s federal agencies began investigating reports of a drug-based payola schemes in which DJs and their stations were bribed with drugs and money to promote certain records. Davis was fired by CBS in 1973 for “misuse of company funds” but he was not charged with any crime.

The following year Davis started his own record company named Arista records. One of his deals involved funding the 23-year-old Diddy P with $15 million to start Bad Boy Records. Then in 1998 Davis gave Diddy a $50 million advance on future earnings plus $6 million upfront and a $700,000 salary.

Incidentally, Davis in his latter years “came out” as bisexual and according to one of Diddy’s associates it was Davis who taught Diddy all his bad habits. And then again, Diddy’s father Melvin Combs worked with the mobster Frank Lucas, a story retold in the 2007 movie American Gangster.

Ben David says it’s unlikely Diddy P, in spite of the horrendous crimes he is accused of, will spend the rest of his life in jail “because he has access to a lot of information on a lot of people who make a lot of money for people in Hollywood”.