McCarter Partner Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and chair of McCarter’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group spoke with the BBC through the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Following a federal jury’s decision to acquit the music mogul of the most serious charges against him, Bob explained the challenges prosecutors faced in proving the racketeering charge, noting that to gain a conviction, lawyers needed to prove that Combs established a coordinated plan between himself and at least one other person to commit at least two crimes over a span of several years. “It’s a very complicated charge, used typically in the past in organized crime prosecution,” he said, adding it is unsurprising that this charge gave the jury the most difficult.
7.7.2025