00:00Don Rashard took the stand this morning in the Diddy trial and backed up a lot of what Cassie testified to.
00:08But it went beyond just the beatings and the alleged abuse and got into racketeering.
00:16Yeah, some of the things that Don Rashard, a former member of Danady Cain, that she testified to could certainly fall under the umbrella of racketeering
00:27because she mentioned specific threats, death threats.
00:31That's how she took it when she says Diddy said things like, people go missing if they don't agree with me,
00:40if they don't go along with the program.
00:43Specifically, Don was talking about after she testified last week that she watched Diddy beat Cassie.
00:52And after that, she says there was a warning that he gave to herself and another member of their group
01:00where he said, stay out of my relationship.
01:03You don't want to go missing.
01:05And she was asked what that meant as far as she was concerned.
01:08And she said he would kill you.
01:10Yeah.
01:10I mean, that's essentially what she said.
01:11Right.
01:12So that was a large part of her testimony.
01:15And then it got interesting when she was cross-examined also because Diddy's attorneys tried their best to punch holes
01:21in a lot of what she had to say on the stand.
01:24I have to tell you, I'm thinking about this all weekend.
01:31The racketeering is a tough one for the prosecution.
01:35Right.
01:36Because it's just not, that law is not generally used against an individual.
01:42Yet it's the first count.
01:43Yet it's the first count.
01:46And one of the problems that juries sometimes have, and I'm not saying it's going to be in this case,
01:53but my antennae are up for this, that if they feel the prosecutors are overreaching,
02:00especially in the headline, sometimes it hurts the other counts as well
02:07because they think they're kind of going after that person.
02:09I mean, Lisa's not here anymore, but as she just said, we're just, it's week two of testimony.
02:16But as you just said, there was an expectation.
02:19But I actually think that's on the media where we felt like she was the star witness
02:23because she's, one, the most famous of all the witnesses, right?
02:28And we know that she filed the lawsuit that led to this indictment even happening, right?
02:33So that's why we said she was the star witness.
02:36But we have no idea who else the prosecution is going to bring up here.
02:39It might turn out to be someone else.
02:41I'm telling you, in two months, we're going to say someone else is the star witness.
02:45Oh, I don't agree with that.
02:47Okay.
02:47I do not.
02:47I think you were right that Cassie was considered the star witness, but not just by the media.
02:54I think, you know, witness one, they talked about her at the press conference with the U.S.
02:58Victim one, yep.
02:59Victim one, rather.
02:59They talked about her at the U.S. Attorney.
03:03I think-
03:04Okay, that's fair, too, that the U.S. Attorney's Office certainly-
03:07And by the way, whether the media did it, whether the U.S. Attorney did it, whether both did it,
03:12those jurors were not hermetically sealed.
03:15They heard all of this.
03:16When they got put on the case, they heard all of that.
03:18So they had an expectation, too.
03:21So I think this was an interesting week for prosecutors.
