Jury finds Combs guilty on 2 counts in sex trafficking trial
Standing outside the courthouse, Cindnui Edwards said today’s verdict was “wonderful.”
Edwards, 49, has attended the trial at least 15 times over the last few weeks. He arrived at the courthouse at 2:15 a.m. today to secure a spot in the main courtroom.
“I’m a Black man, he’s a Black man, we’re both from New York City,” Edwards said. “And if it could happen to him, in my opinion, it could happen to anyone.”
“I believe they tried to railroad him, they tried to target him, and I think they tried to take him down,” he added, describing Combs’ charges as “trumped up” and “exaggerated.”
Edwards felt that Cassie Ventura and “Jane” were willing participants rather than victims and that their stories were inconsistent.
“If what Puffy was doing was racketeering, everyone’s racketeering that’s in that lifestyle, flying women out, doing drugs and things like that,” he said. If he could speak with Combs directly, Edwards said he would tell him to “get help.”
“The man definitely has a lot of problems, a drug problem. He definitely has a drug problem,” Edwards said. “And I think he’s going to do that. I think that he’s going to slow down the lifestyle he had and seek help.”
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