Former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkaski joins me now.
Katie,
do you think Diddy's going to get
subpoenaed individually pretty soon?
I think the walls are absolutely closing in.
This is a full scale,
not just Interstate but international investigation.
So clearly it's been coordinated for some time.
The subpoenas for his flight records and bank records specifically
named him,
so he hasn't been given a target letter yet.
Typically that will come closer to when a grand jury
and indictment decision would be pending,
but I would anticipate they're on the the road down
that path.
So it does seem to be a sex trafficking investigation.
If you look at all of the subpoenas going out
to these chartered flights,
even possibly commercial airlines tell us about these witnesses.
I mean, you heard from a former bodyguard,
he's willing to testify.
Oh, absolutely. There's a lot of people in his very
inner circle who have turned on him.
Now the question is whether the feds can corroborate their
statements.
Of course, his defense team is going to attack them
for having motives to lie,
making a money grab. But clearly,
when you have so many people from so many different
areas of his life and not necessarily any evidence of
collusion between them,
that starts to become a very weak defense.
So you heard the former bodyguard say that.
Did he was snitch? He was talking to the FBI?
He was a confidential informant.
Does that stack up to you when you read about
all of these allegations that he was
basically untouchable and had local law enforcement in his back
pocket?
Well, it does seem like the feds are late to
this party.
It seems like that's been known for a very long
time.
What did he was involved in and what types of
criminal allegations have been floating out there for years.
So it wouldn't surprise me if he may have been
used as an informant in some particular cases in the
past.
I don't know if that would have gotten him protection
from all of these other allegations,
but informants have gone down all the time.
I mean, even if you're working for the cops,
you're not immune from being turned on by by them
at some point in the future.
So both can be true at the same time.
And you're also hearing about these CEOs of these record
labels.
I mean, these are guys that are at the highest
level of the recording industry and they're alleged to have
sponsored these parties filled with underage girls,
lace, drinks, everything was videotaped.
We're not hearing a lot about their names,
but this has to probably be scaring the heck
out of the entire music industry.
Absolutely. There have been attempts to get all of the
footage,
all of these records. They've we don't even know who
they've interviewed up to this point.
And it kind of strikes me as interesting that while
we've been talking a lot about the racketeering cases or
alleged racketeering cases against Trump and those defendants,
this actually sounds like a legitimate racketeering case if what
these people are saying are true.
Yeah. And these Rico charges,
that's exactly what they're looking into.
All right. It's going to be crazy next week.
Katie, thanks so much for joining us.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you.