Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer mocks sex trafficking case in closing, says charges ‘badly exaggerated’

NEW YORK AP Sean Diddy Combs was portrayed in his lawyer s closing argument on Friday as the victim of an overzealous prosecution that tried to turn the recreational use of drugs and a swinger lifestyle into a racketeering conspiracy that could put the music mogul behind bars for life Attorney Marc Angifilo mocked the executive s scenario against Combs and belittled the agents who seized hundreds of bottles of Astroglide lubricant and baby oil at the hip hop impresario s properties Way to go fellas Agnifilo stated as he began a presentation expected to last several hours He mentioned prosecutors had badly exaggerated evidence of the swinger lifestyle and threesomes to combine it with recreational drug use and call it a racketeering conspiracy He did not do the things he s charged with He didn t do racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking the lawyer reported Agnifilo also called Combs prosecution a fake trial and ridiculed the notion that he engaged in racketeering Are you kidding me Are you kidding me Agnifilo questioned Did any witness get on that witness stand and say yes I was part of a racketeering enterprise I engaged in racketeering No Agnifilo argued telling jurors that those accusations were a figment of the prosecution s imagination Combs family including six of his children and his mother were in the audience for the closing All his life Combs has taken care of people Agnifilo declared including the ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane whose rent he s paying I don t know what Jane is doing in current times Agnifilo revealed But she s doing it in a house he s paying for Referring to lawsuits filed by Combs accusers he revealed This isn t about crime It s about money This is about money He noted that Combs girlfriend of nearly years Casandra Cassie Ventura sued him in a lawsuit that was settled for million in a day in November triggering a federal probe the following day If you had to pick a winner in this whole thing it s hard not to pick Cassie Agnifilo disclosed Cassie and Jane both testified during the trial that they were coerced repeatedly by Combs to perform in drug-fueled dayslong sex marathons with male sex workers while Combs watched directed masturbated and sometimes filmed the encounters If convicted Combs could face a mandatory minimum of years in prison and a maximum of life He did not testify during the trial that is in its seventh week After Agnifilo completes his closing Assistant U S Attorney Maurene Comey was expected to deliver a rebuttal summation before the judge reads the law to the jury which is not expected to begin deliberations until Monday