Joe Tacopina is taking a victory lap at the expense of federal prosecutors ... because he's always said the racketeering and sex trafficking charges against Diddy didn't add up -- and a jury agreed.
00:04I don't think I need to be a, you know, a genius to call this. I mean, that was a case that was so over prosecuted. It was it was really the most expensive prostitution trial in the history of American jurisprudence. That's all it was.
00:18I mean, racketeering to me was a joke, a racketeering enterprise. I mean, when we think of racketeering, we think of things like organized crime, drug cartels, you know, vicious, vicious gangs were born to commit crimes.
00:34I mean, this is not was never a racketeering case. Sex trafficking is a high standard. Sex trafficking, you really need fraud, coercion, force.
00:43There was so much evidence of consent in this case that it was impossible for 12 people to believe that sex trafficking happened.
00:51That was not sex trafficking. Again, that was some horrific stuff and and whatever.
00:56But everyone was willing to participate at times. So, you know, it was to me, it was absolutely going to wind up being this way.
01:04And if you have a doubt that's based on reason, you must acquit. And here there was so much evidence of consent.
01:12And I mean, if you looked at the contemporaneous text messages that were elicited by the defense throughout this trial of Cassie and the other one, it was clear that they were consenting at least portions of this.
01:24So, you know, when is it consensual? When is it not consensual? I mean, it was this case was, again, I called it from the beginning, not because I'm a fortune teller.
01:33I think I called it because the evidence and the charges sort of were pretty clear to me that this was going to wind up being a prostitution conviction.
01:40And we spent God knows how many billions of dollars in federal court talking about baby oil, applesauce on hamburgers, the stupidest stuff I've ever heard, urination, things that you really don't expect to hear in a federal district court.
01:55That was the gist of this testimony. So, look, he was proven to be a bad guy, but this is not the case.
02:02This was not the case to bring against him. The whole thing was weird. It was it was not done right.
02:07And it was done, as I've said before, I believe, to to garner publicity for certain individuals.
02:14And maybe they wanted to make a name for themselves. But this did not help anyone's career from the U.S. attorney's office. That's for sure.
