Eddy Garcia, who was working on the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, even confessed to mendacity to feds about his involvement in serving to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
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Garcia advised jurors that Diddy promised him “he would take care of me” if he helped the rapper pay money for the surveillance video of Ventura being brutally overwhelmed. He added that Diddy and his chief of workers, Kristina Khorram, requested him to bury the now-infamous video. Garcia added that in one name with Diddy, he “sounded very nervous. He was talking fast. He said he had a little too much to drink, said one thing led to another.”
Garcia mentioned of one other name, “I sounded like a good guy. That I wanted to help … he said something like this could ruin him. He was concerned that this video could get out and that it could ruin his career.”
“He said he would take care of me,” Garcia added.
Eddy Garcia’s assembly with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Garcia then mentioned that he and his boss, Bill Medrano, agreed to take payoffs to get Diddy the one recognized copy of the footage. Putting a replica of the footage on a USB stick for Garcia, Medrano despatched the safety guard to an deal with for a gathering with Diddy, and promised that he would cowl for Garcia at work. According to Garcia, Diddy, Khorram and a bodyguard had been current for the deal at a high-rise constructing on March 7, 2016.
Diddy allegedly greeted Garcia saying, “Eddy, my angel … come in.” Garcia mentioned he himself “was nervous and my voice saved cracking.”
Eventually, in the course of the assembly, Diddy allegedly known as Ventura, gave the cellphone to Garcia and mentioned, “She wanted it to go away too.” “She said hi, she said that she had a movie coming out and that it wasn’t a good time for this to be coming out, and she wanted it to go away,” Garcia mentioned of the dialog with Ventura.
Garcia then went on to signal a non-disclosure settlement and one other doc saying, “I have provided the only copy of the video,” as revealed by the doc proven to jurors. Garcia mentioned that he didn’t learn the doc as a result of “I was nervous and wanted to get out of there.”
Garcia mentioned Diddy then pulled out a brown paper bag and put cash by way of a cash counter, tallying a complete of $100,000. The quantity was sorted into stacks of $10,000. Garcia claimed that Medrano agreed to take $50,000 for the video transaction, the New York Post reported.
“The additional money was for me and what [Combs] thought was for Mr. Flores,” Garcia mentioned, including that Doddy later advised him to not make any huge purchases with the bribe cash.
Garcia confessed that when the feds contacted him in June 2024, he lied to them about his involvement in serving to Diddy. He additionally admitted to deleting incriminating textual content messages.
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