“是时候判被告有罪了，”检察官克里斯蒂·斯拉维克周四告诉将决定音乐大亨肖恩·“吹牛老爹”·库姆斯命运的联邦陪审团。
经过七周的审判，斯拉维克发表了近五个小时的结案陈述，试图将针对库姆斯的大量证据联系起来，敦促陪审团的八名男性和四名女性发现库姆斯在幕后使用“权力、暴力和恐惧来获得他想要的东西。”
斯拉维克带领陪审团浏览了针对库姆斯的案件，认为这位说唱歌手和曾经的时尚引领者利用他的影响力和商业帝国实施了多年的犯罪行为。
“没有人能阻止他，”斯拉维克声称，“他设法做到了这一点长达20年，因为他利用自己的核心圈子、金钱和影响力来掩盖他的罪行。”
库姆斯对敲诈勒索阴谋、性交易和运输进行了无罪辩护。如果所有罪名成立，他可能会在监狱度过余生。他的首席辩护律师马克·阿格尼菲洛定于周五向陪审团提交结案陈词。
针对库姆斯的案件集中在长达100多天的毒品引发的性狂欢上，在此期间，这位说唱歌手的浪漫伙伴据称被迫与男妓发生性关系，以满足库姆斯的非传统性欲。根据证词，库姆斯会编排这些环节，然后一边手淫一边观看。
库姆斯的律师承认，这位大亨是一个暴力的人，滥用非法药物，过着“多角恋”的生活。但是他们坚持认为，所有向陪审团详述的性行为都是成年人自愿的私人行为，与执法无关。
检察官在28天的证词中传唤了34名证人，指控库姆斯利用他的音乐帝国作为犯罪组织，允许他在长达十年的所谓犯罪活动中逃脱性交易、毒品分销、绑架、纵火、贿赂、强迫劳动和篡改证人。
“直到今天，被告能够逃脱他的罪行，因为他的钱，他的权力和他的影响，”斯拉维克告诉陪审团。“现在停止了。是时候让他承担责任了。是时候伸张正义了。”
检察官关注诈骗阴谋定罪
检方的总结将尚恩·库姆斯置于一个犯罪集团的顶端，这个集团依赖于一个他们称之为“忠诚的副手”的内部员工圈子，包括他的幕僚长和保镖。检察官辩称，库姆斯还依赖她称之为“步兵”的众多助手。
“他们很年轻，”斯拉维克说。“他们眼睛都没眨一下。”
检察官指控这些罪行包括协议分销毒品、绑架、纵火、贿赂、性交易、通过武力和威胁获得劳动力、安排以商业色情为目的的旅行以及帮助库姆斯掩盖其他罪行。她告诉陪审团，仅毒品分销一项就有“数百起”足以以敲诈勒索共谋罪定罪。斯拉维克还向陪审团强调了三起涉嫌绑架的案件，对说唱歌手卡迪小子汽车的燃烧弹袭击，两起涉嫌贿赂的案件，以及数十次库姆斯所谓的受害者跨越州界参加性派对。
要宣布库姆斯犯有敲诈勒索罪，陪审团必须一致认定他和另一名涉嫌共谋的成员同意犯下两项罪行。
“在这里，虽然，你有远远超过两个行为，”斯拉维克告诉陪审员。
检察官称凯茜·温图拉和“简”的证词证明了性交易
歌手凯茜·温图拉称他们为“怪胎”库姆斯的前女友，化名简，称之为“酒店之夜”他的助手称之为“狂野之夜”
斯拉维克在政府的结案陈词中说，不管他们被称为什么，这些情节都是性交易的证据，因为库姆斯使用武力、威胁、欺诈和胁迫来促使文图拉和简参与。
“指控是关于被告使用非法行动让凯西和简说好，”斯拉维克说。"这并不是试图将功能失调的关系或非传统的性行为定罪."
斯拉维克告诉陪审团中的八名男性和四名女性，他们不需要发现所有的反常行为都是武力、欺诈或胁迫的产物。
“你只需要找到在一种情况下满足性交易的要素，”她说，回答了一个问题，这个问题一直是媒体对库姆斯案件无休止报道的主题。“所以，如果有一次，一个反常的举动，当被告知道或不顾后果地无视凯西或简的参与，因为他的谎言，他的威胁或他的暴力，就是这样。”
陪审团观看了一组男性陪同人员的拼贴画，检察官说，文图拉和简被迫以“从手淫和触摸到口交再到性交的缓慢过程”发生性关系，通常是在多个晚上多次发生。
“当被告说他们已经完成的时候，他们就已经完成了，不会比那更早，”斯拉维克说。
检察官试图确定卖淫罪
在对库姆斯的指控中，有两项是以卖淫为目的的运输，与性交易或共谋敲诈勒索的指控相比，这两项指控的刑期可能要轻一些。
检察官认为，他们很容易证明库姆斯违反了法律，当时他付钱给他的前女友们在全国各地旅行，进行“疯狂的旅行”在2009年8月的一个例子中，斯拉维克向陪审员展示了库姆斯与一位名叫朱尔斯的陪同人员协调旅行的短信。她随后出示了库姆斯的美国运通账单，显示库姆斯支付了朱尔斯的机票、机场的汽车费以及在纽约市伦敦酒店的2000美元账单。
“反常现象不是孤立发生的。被告一直想要它们，”斯拉维克告诉陪审团。“你听说过很多这样的例子，被告乘坐飞机从全国各地护送过来，以便观看他们做爱。”
Diddy trial day 33 recap: Prosecutors say Combs used 'power, violence and fear' to commit a decade of crimes
"It's time to find the defendant guilty, " prosecutor Christy Slavik on Thursday told the federal jury that will decide the fate of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.
After a seven-week trial, Slavik delivered a nearly five-hour closing statement that sought to tie together the mountain of evidence against Combs, urging the eight men and four women of the jury to find that Combs, behind the scenes, used "power, violence and fear to get what he wanted."
Slavik took the jury through a tour of the case against Combs, arguing that the rapper and onetime tastemaker used his influence and business empire to pull off years of criminal conduct.
"No one could stop him," Slavik claimed, "and he managed to do this for two decades, because he used his inner circle, his money and his influence to cover up his crimes."
Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prosecution. He could spend the rest of his life in prison, if convicted on all counts. His lead defense attorney, Marc Agnifilo, is scheduled to present his closing arguments to the jury Friday.
The case against Combs is centered on more than a hundred days-long drug-fueled sex orgies during which the rapper's romantic partners were allegedly forced to have sex with male prostitutes to satisfy Combs' unconventional sexual desires. According to the testimony, Combs would choreograph the sessions and then watch them while masturbating.
Combs' attorneys have acknowledged that the mogul is a violent man who has abused illegal drugs and leads a "polyamorous" lifestyle. But they insist that all sex acts detailed for the jury were the voluntary private conduct of consenting adults and not the business of law enforcement.
Calling 34 witnesses across 28 days of testimony, prosecutors allege Combs used his music empire as a criminal organization that allowed him to get away with sex trafficking, drug distribution, kidnapping, arson, bribery, forced labor and witness tampering over a decade-long stretch of alleged criminality.
"Up until today, the defendant was able to get away with his crimes because of his money, his power and his influence," Slavik told the jury. "That stops now. It's time to hold him accountable. It's time for justice."
Prosecutors eye a racketeering conspiracy conviction
The prosecution's summation positioned Sean Combs squarely atop a criminal enterprise that relied on an inner circle of employees who they called "loyal lieutenants," including his chief of staff and bodyguards. The prosecutor argued Combs also relied on numerous assistants she called "foot soldiers" in the enterprise.
"They were young," Slavik said. "They didn't blink an eye."
Prosecutors alleged those crimes included an agreement to distribute drugs, kidnapping, arson, bribery, sex trafficking, obtaining labor by force and threats, arranging travel for the purposes of commercial sex and helping Combs cover up other crimes. She told the jury there were "hundreds" of drug distribution offenses alone that would be enough to convict on the racketeering conspiracy charge. Slavik also highlighted for the jury three instances of alleged kidnapping, the firebombing of rapper Kid Cudi's car, two instances of alleged bribery, and dozens of times when Combs' alleged victims traveled across state lines for the purposes of the sex parties.
To pronounce Combs guilty of racketeering, the jury must unanimously find that he and another member of the alleged conspiracy agreed that two crimes would be committed.
"Here, though, you have far more than two acts," Slavik told jurors.
Prosecutors say testimony of Cassie Ventura and "Jane" prove sex trafficking
The singer Cassie Ventura called them "freak-offs." Combs' ex-girlfriend, known by the pseudonym Jane, called them "hotel nights." His assistants knew them as "wild king nights."
Whatever they're called, those episodes are evidence of sex trafficking because Combs used force, threats, fraud and coercion to cause Ventura and Jane to participate, Slavik said during the government's closing argument.
"The charge is about the defendant's use of illegal actions to get Cassie and Jane to say yes," Slavik said. "This is not an attempt to criminalize dysfunctional relationships or unconventional sexual conduct."
Slavik told the eight men and four women in the jury box they do not need to find that all the freak-offs were the products of force, fraud or coercion.
"You only need to find the elements of sex trafficking are met on one occasion," she said, answering a question that has been the subject of endless hours of media coverage of the Combs case. "So, if there was one time, one single freak-off, when the defendant knew or recklessly disregarded that Cassie or Jane was participating because of his lies, his threats or his violence, that's it."
The jury was shown a collage of male escorts prosecutors said Ventura and Jane were made to have sex with in a "slow progression from masturbating and touching to oral sex to intercourse," often multiple times over multiple nights.
"They were done when the defendant said they were done and not any sooner than that," Slavik said.
Prosecutors try to nail down prostitution counts
Among the charges against Combs are two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution, which carry smaller possible prison sentences than the charges of sex trafficking or racketeering conspiracy.
Prosecutors argued they easily proved Combs violated the law when he paid for his former girlfriends to travel across the country for "freak-offs." In one example, from August 2009, Slavik showed jurors text messages from Combs coordinating travel with an escort named Jules. She then showed Combs' American Express statement that indicates Combs paid for Jules' flight, car from the airport and the $2,000 bill from The London hotel in New York City.
"Freak-offs did not occur in isolation. The defendant wanted them all the time," Slavik told the jury. "You heard about many instances when the defendant flew in escorts from across the country so he could watch them have sex."
