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Hey, everyone, welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.
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I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and it is the inaugural
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episode in the Trial of Sean Combe. Now, if you
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haven't caught up with the Diddy Saga, that was everything
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taking place up until about a month ago, So go
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back and listen to the ones that maybe you haven't
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listened to yet. There are I think I stopped at
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twenty seven episodes of the Diddy Saga, so make sure
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you check that out. But going forward, we're starting the
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new series, the Trial of Diddy. This is episode one. Now,
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I want to say this right off the back, because
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there's some differences in the way a federal trial takes
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place in the way a state trial takes place. For example,
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no cameras are allowed in the courtroom for a federal trial,
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so I won't be able to use clips from the
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actual testimony of people that testified both on seawn COM's
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behalf and on the federal government's behalf. However, they're going
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to have updates every single day. I'm going to bring
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you the updates as I get them. I do have
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some people, I guess you could say on the inside
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that are going to be assisting me with some breaking news.
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Nothing illegal. This isn't people leaking information. It's just people
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that are actually going to be inside the courtroom. So
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I'll be bringing you all that as I get it.
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And a lot has happened since last time I even
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talked about Sean Combs, which wasn't too long ago. I
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think maybe I dropped an episode three weeks ago or so.
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But I'm going to catch you up from March fourteenth,
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when the following article came out in the New York Times,
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one of the most well written articles I've come across
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in a while, and it reads like this. In a
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full room of cubicles, workers and headsets read from their
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computer screens, addressing callers who dialed a one to eight
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hundred number. They have a scrub quote where you or
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your loved ones sexually abused by Sean Love Combs known
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as Diddy Puff Daddy or p Ditty quote. If the
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abuse occurred at a party, please list the name of
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that party, what kind of party was it? Their employer.
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Reciprocity Industries is a legal services company located in the
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low slung buildings of Billings, Montana. More than two thousand
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miles from the Brooklyn jail where mister Combs awaits trial
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on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. For years, the
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company has helped seed litigation by fielding complaints from people
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hurt by natural disasters, wheat killers, or abuse of clergy.
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Now it's the central collection point for sexual assault allegations
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against mister Combs. Some complaints come in through the phone,
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others arrive online in response to ads promoted on Facebook
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and Instagram. By the company's count, it has received some
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twenty six thousand contacts. It is deemed hundreds of complaints
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worthy of review, and already the lead lawyer handling these cases,
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Tonny Busby, a high profile litigator from Houston, has filed
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nearly forty lawsuits against mister Combs, and he says more coming.
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Planiffs say he raped them. They say they were miners
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at the time. The accounts are often similar. A drink
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at a party, unusual wiziness, and a sexual assault. All
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were initially filed anonymously. Quote the planiff has experienced a
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significant impact on her personal life, Lawyers made in a
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suit that accused mister Combs of assaulting a woman in
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a hotel in twenty fourteen. The cases against mister Combs,
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who denies assaulting anyone, amount to what called a mass toward,
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in which many people often drawn in by advertising, file
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claims against a common defendant. This growing area of the
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law has long been divisive. Lawyers for plaintiffs say the
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case is fostered justice for those who have suffered at
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the hands of powerful people and institutions, such as former
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boy scouts who were sexually abused, But critics say mass
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towards in the advertising often aligned with them, can draw
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frivolous claims and are haphazardly vetted in that sheer volume
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of cases can overwhelm both the court system and defense teams.
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It will be months, perhaps years before settlements, dismissals, or
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verdicts resolve whether mister Combs was a serial predator, but
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his lawyers are already challenging the ways in which many
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of the cases have been collected.
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Quote.
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We have seen a very high volume of dubious cases,
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Mark Cacarro, one of mister Combs's lawyers, told a judge
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at a hearing in January. Jones denies sexually assaulting anyone
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and has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges. His
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lawyers save the deluge of suits is not evidence of guilt,
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only proof that some people will seek to feed off
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financial settlements from a wealthy celebrity. One case was withdrawn
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last month after a plaintiff who said she had been
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raped by mister Combs and the rapper Jay Z when
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she was thirteen in knowledge making mistakes in her account
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in an interview with NBC News. Her allegations have precipitated
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a contentious legal battle involving private investigators and courts in
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multiple states. In another Combs case, aspects of an anonymous
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man's lawsuit accusing mister Combes of rape, including the year,
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were amended after inconsistencies emerged. In his interview with CNN,
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mister Busby said those issues should not affect other cases. Quote,
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I've always said that each case lives and dies on
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its own merit. The increase in mass towards related to
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sexual abuse has been driven in part by laws established
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in the Me Too error that extended new opportunities for
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plaintiffs who did not bring claims during the typical statute
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of limitations. The legal landscape changed dramatically in nineteen seventy
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seven when the Supreme Court ruled that the prohibition against
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lawyer advertising violated the First Amendment. Soon lawyers faces and
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testimonials were popping up in newspapers and on television. Rules
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developed by the Court and bar associations restricted lawyers generally
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from calling people injured and say a car crash, to
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ask if they can represent them, but advertising a lawyer's
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services in a public form, and in some cases tailoring
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the message to a particular group of potential plaintiffs, is allowed.
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Rules prohibit false and misleading ads disciplinary action for infractions
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as in common experts say, but court disciplinary bodies do
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review ads ads in response to complaints. Spending on mass
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tort television advertising has averaged about one hundred and ninety
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million dollars per year over the past decade, according to
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x Anti, a data analyst company. But social media has
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become the new frontier. And I read you that section
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because the commonality of these mass tort lawsuits is important
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and the amount of money invested in them. And look,
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there is no doubt that people jump on bandwagons. If
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you have say, one hundred cases, there's probably about twenty
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percent of those are really just people trying to get money,
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but that still leaves eighty percent, right, So some interesting
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information there. And the next thing we're going to talk
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about is shaw Combe's life inside prism. What's it been
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like since he's been inside that Brooklyn attention center. How
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does a billionaire handle that? And he's not the only
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billionaire in that prison. I'm going to reference this article
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from New York Times that came out April fourteenth. It's
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very eye opening. Shawn Combe's hair and beard wants jet
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black or gray now. Hair dye is not allowed at
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the Metropolitan Detention Center. Breakfast is at seven am. The
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exercise room has yoga mats in a small basketball hoop.
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The communi space in the dorm style housing he's been
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assigned to has ping pong in television. There is phone
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access that has allowed him to speak to the rapper Yea,
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and also to his children, who on his fifty fifth
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birthday serenaded him on speakerphone. Quote, thank y'all for being
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strong and thank y'all for being on my side, mister
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Combs said in a video released by his family. The
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Brooklyn jail has drawn complaints over the years as a
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place filled with mole vermin and neglect which the Federal
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bu the era of Prisons has pledged to address. For
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nearly seven months, this most famous tenant has been mister Combs,
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who is awaiting trial in the circumstances far removed from
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the life of personal chefs and enormous mansions that he
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once enjoyed. He is facing years in prison if convicted
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on the racketeering and sex trafficking charges he faces when
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his trial begins next month. His lawyers argued after his
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arrest last September that mister Combs should be free until
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the trial. Motion after motion and three hearings were devoted
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to arguments over whether he posed too much of a
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threat to the community and to witness tampering, which I
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think was the deciding factor. Y'all three judges decided he
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did some. Mister Combs, who is pleaded not guilty to
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the charges, has been forced to make do at the
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long troubled facility that houses more than eleven hundred inmate
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and is beset by a reputation for attrition among its
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guards and violence within its walls. The government has depicted
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mister Comes in court papers as the boss of a
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violent criminal conspiracy that committed kidnapping, arson, and drug crimes
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while enabling mister Combe's sexual abuse of women. Mister Comb's
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lawyers have asserted that the charges actually center on consensual
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sex with long term girlfriends. The defense has acknowledge of
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mister Combs has had complicated relationships with significant others, as
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well as with alcohol and drugs, but has argued that
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those troubles do not make him a racketeer or a
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sex trafficker. As he prepares for his trial, the music
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Muggle has been staying in an area of the jail
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known as four North, a four to four dormitory style
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unit where roughly twenty men are housed. The unit tends
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to hold high profile inmates, including up until recently, Sam
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Bankman freed the cryptocurrency Muggle, who was convicted of fraud.
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Other commons to Dame Ees and four North are government informants,
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such as former gang members. The government wanted to separate
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from the general jail population when mister Combs was first arrested,
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as lawyers expected that he would be assigned to the
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jail's Special Housing Unit, a restrictive designation that typically means
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spending twenty three hours a day inside a cell. The
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conditions in four North are far more lenient. Gene Burrello,
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a former inmate who said he was placed there because
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he helped the government convict members of the mafia, said
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that compared to other units in the jail, you have
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nothing to worry about. Inmates are generally free to move
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around the unit, which has rows of bunk beds, televisions,
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a microwave. There are multiple check ins each day at
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one's bunk, overseen by correctional officers. The bathrooms have stalls.
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The inmates take meals at tables inside the unit's common area.
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Inmates do not have access to the internet, but they
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can watch movies and listen to music on tablets that
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are available for purchase in the commonsary. Previous high profile
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occupants of the unit include Geno Garcia Luna, a former
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top law enforcement official in Mexico, and Juan Hernandez, the
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former president of Honduras, who shares a lawyer with mister
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Combs and is a waiting trial in the same jail.
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Mister Bankman Freed, who is appealing his fraud conviction, was
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in the unit with mister Combs until last month, when
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he was transferred shortly before his relocation. Mister Bankman freed,
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spoke in a video interview with Tucker Carlson, who asked
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about mister Combs. Quote, He's been kind. It's a position
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no one wants to be in. Obviously he doesn't. I don't.
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As you said, it's kind of a soul crushing place.
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Mister Combs meets with members of his legal team frequently,
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sometimes in a conference room off the common area of
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his unit. He was provided a laptop without WiFi at
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his lawyer's urging to work on the mountain of evidence
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that prosecutors have turned over before the trial. He can
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use the laptop between eight am and three point thirty
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pm each year in the unit's visiting area or in
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a room reserved for inmates that take video calls. The
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trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan is expected to
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last about eight weeks. Opening statements are scheduled for May twelfth.
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Inside the detention center, located on the Brooklyn waterfront near
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a recycling facility, mail pre trial inmates wear brown jail clothes.
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There is a rotating food menu. The second Friday of
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the month, for example, means lasagna as well as spinach
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and slid. The commonsary stock snacks like Snickers five ninety
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five for a pack of six and cheese its at
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three sixty five each, as well as toiletries and other
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items like radios and watches. Inmates are allowed to spend
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up to one hundred and eighty dollars every two weeks,
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using money that family and friends can funnel into their
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commonsary accounts. Packets of mackerel known as max, operate as
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a kind of currency between the inmates. They are on
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sale in the commentsary for one dollar each. For mister Combs, unit,
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visitors are allowed on Tuesdays. Phone calls are capped at
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fifteen minutes each and can be monitored by the government.
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Elite clip of mister Combes' call with Ya, formerly known
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as Kanye West, includes snippets of mister Combs encouraging Ye
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to make new music and promising to call again.
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Yes, sir, Yeah, yes, sir, that's it.
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I don't now, yeah, thank you don't want again my kid?
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And it ain't nobody nicked out him. Ain't nobody called
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you nobody? Okay, then you don't want you.
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I've been lundy wing while I'm making funk.
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Yeah, absolutely, I love you. So much the front line. Yeah,
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I need I need you out here.
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Yeah, I hear you, yes, sir, yes, sir many yeah,
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having no funny.
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You get behind the mine having fun, coop up. Then
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both get back on.
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The bad crime have before you get back finally leven the.
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More mane you know, yeah, I understand.
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Your mom, you know, put that love in your man
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and enjoy your health. Man, when I get out there,
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that want being out of him.
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But get back on that day and acting and cracking
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and the monging and everything, I.
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Mean, greaving of that.