自20世纪90年代以来性交易审判对肖恩“吹牛老爹”库姆斯的审判于六周前开始，将决定这位说唱大亨命运的陪审团于周一增加了一名新成员。
在检察官对他在陪审团选择期间的回答以及他是否值得信任表示担忧后，负责此案的法官解雇了一名陪审员，并用一名替补代替了他。
放弃陪审员的决定意味着一个中年黑人被一个年长的白人所取代。库姆斯的律师反对这一改变，称这是检方“暗中”试图改变陪审团的种族构成。
美国地区法官Arun Subramanian驳回了这些担忧，称在决定陪审员对其居住地问题的回答是否恰当时，“考虑种族是不恰当的”。
萨勃拉曼尼亚周一表示:“这份记录引发了人们对该陪审员的坦率程度以及他是否为了继续留在陪审团而对答案进行了篡改的严重担忧。”。"在这一点上，陪审员说什么也不能把妖怪放回瓶子里。"
争论的焦点是6号陪审员是否如实说出了自己的住址。在挑选陪审团成员时，他曾说自己住在布朗克斯区，但后来又暗示自己搬到了新泽西，这让他没有资格成为曼哈顿联邦陪审团的成员。
这位陪审员被一位候补陪审员所取代——一位来自纽约市北郊威彻斯特的57岁的建筑师——使得陪审团整体上更老更白。
陪审团的变化发生在检察官本周传唤他们的最后一名证人的时候。接下来是辩方，然后陪审团会接手这个案子。
检察官认为，库姆斯利用他的财富、影响力和权力强迫女性发生性关系，然后使用暴力和威胁让她们保持沉默，以保护他的名誉。库姆斯对指控不认罪，他的律师辩称，参加他的毒品性派对的任何女性都是自愿参与者，他们同意与男妓发生性关系，而库姆斯是导演、观看和手淫的。
如果所有罪名成立，库姆斯将面临终身监禁。
周二，检察官计划传唤库姆斯的前助理布伦丹·保罗，他已经获得豁免权，因此他可以作证，而不用担心自己被起诉。保罗去年因毒品指控被捕，大约在康姆斯的豪宅被联邦特工搜查的时候。在保罗同意参加一个转移项目后，对他的指控被驳回了。
陪审团看到怪异的视频
为了结束第28天的审判，陪审团成员周一戴上耳机，观看了显示库姆斯据称举办的狂欢活动的视频片段，多名证人将这些活动描述为“怪异之夜”、“酒店之夜”或“狂野之王之夜”。
检察官此前向陪审团展示了性派对的静态图像，但周一的证词标志着他们第一次看到视频证据。检察官声称，库姆斯保留了这些录音，并利用它们对他所谓的受害者施加压力，迫使他们保持沉默。
一个视频超过39分钟，尽管陪审团只看到了一部分。
这些视频是从库姆斯的前女友兼主要证人凯茜·温图拉的笔记本电脑中提取的。这些证物被密封作为证据，因此媒体或公众无法看到。新闻机构曾争取媒体或公众的权利，让他们能够看到这些录音，以帮助公众理解陪审团正在观看的内容的性质。法官拒绝了这些努力。
检察官试图填补空白
其他证人提到库姆斯的前参谋长Kristina Khorram和警卫Damian Butler是据称协助库姆斯的关键人物。但是检察官没有传唤他们中的任何一人出庭。相反，检察官周一使用所谓的“简易”证人——一名联邦特工和政府律师助理——向陪审团提供与指控库姆斯有关的额外证据。
尽管检察官声称库姆斯依靠他人来策划他的犯罪事业，但除了库姆斯之外，没有人被指控犯有任何罪行。
在周一向陪审团展示的一组信息中，霍拉姆和库姆斯的旅行安排人杰西卡·鲁伊斯(Jessica Ruiz)讨论了简的航班——库姆斯的前女友之一，她作证说他强迫他参加性派对——以及一个名叫保罗的护卫。检察官希望这些证据能够支持对库姆斯的性交易指控。
霍拉姆的律师没有回应美国广播公司新闻的置评请求，但他们否认在过去与提到她的民事诉讼有关的声明中有不当行为。
库姆斯的前助理，化名“Mia”，告诉陪审团，在凯茜·温图拉爆炸性的民事诉讼公开后的几天和几周内，库姆斯的保镖达米安·巴特勒(Damian Butler)多次给她打电话和发短信。根据证词，巴特勒怂恿她和库姆斯谈话。
巴特勒没有作证，但一名简易证人从他的手机中读取了一些通话和短信记录。他们似乎显示他与库姆斯密切沟通，而他轻松地与米亚聊天。
米娅作证说，巴特勒和库姆斯的外联“吓坏了”她。这些信息显示了米娅是如何拒绝巴特勒一再提出的“送我妹妹一份礼物”的。
联邦检察官指控库姆斯的著名唱片公司和音乐业务在他的保镖的帮助下成为一个犯罪企业，这些保镖迫使像米娅这样的证人“保持沉默，不要报告他们的经历或知道的事情。”
检察官试图证明一个犯罪集团
通过简要证人，陪审员还看到了额外的商业记录，检察官认为这些记录显示了库姆斯如何利用他的业务为他的个人生活和涉嫌犯罪提供资金。
信用卡账单显示尚恩·库姆斯在2009年12月用他的美国运通信用卡和一名男伴单独飞往纽约。
陪审团看到了康姆斯的一家公司的银行对账单，该公司支付了369，279美元的旅行费用和其他费用。银行声明可能有助于支持检察官的指控，即库姆斯利用他的业务，通过跨州飞行护送从事性交易。
本月早些时候，检察官传唤了库姆斯企业的前首席财务官德里克·费鲁格森(Derek Ferugson)，他作证说库姆斯的业务和个人支出经常交织在一起。
辩方预演了他们的案子
预计检察官最早将于周三结束他们的案件，辩护律师周一开始预览他们将向陪审团提交的案件。库姆斯的律师暗示，从周五开始，已经有多达三名证人排队作证。
第一个辩方证人是瓦什塔·邓勒普，她是《坏男孩》的副总裁。
辩护律师表示，他们可能会传唤更多的证人，但没有说明库姆斯是否会出庭为自己辩护。
Diddy trial day 28 recap: Judge dismisses a juror over a 'lack of candor'
For the first time since thesex trafficking trialof Sean "Diddy" Combs began six weeks ago, the jury that will decide the fate of the rap mogul gained a new member on Monday.
The judge overseeing the case dismissed a juror -- and replaced him with an alternate -- after prosecutors raised concerns about his answers during jury selection and whether he could be trusted.
The decision to drop the juror means that a Black, middle-aged man has now been replaced by an older, white man. Combs' attorneys have objected to the change, saying it was a "veiled" attempt by the prosecution to alter the racial makeup of the panel.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian dismissed those concerns, saying it is "inappropriate to consider race" in deciding whether the juror's responses to questions about where he lived were appropriate.
"The record raised serious concerns as to the juror's candor and whether he shaded answers to get on and stay on the jury," Subramanian said Monday. "There's nothing the juror could say at this point to put the genie back in the bottle."
At issue was whether Juror No. 6 had been honest about where he lived. During jury selection, he had said he lived in the Bronx but later suggested he moved to New Jersey, making him ineligible for a Manhattan federal jury.
The juror was replaced with an alternate juror -- a 57-year-old architect from New York City's northern suburb of Westchester -- making the jury overall older and whiter.
The change to the jury comes as prosecutors are calling their final witnesses this week. Next up will be the defense and, from there, the jury will get the case.
Prosecutors argue that Combs used his wealth, influence and power to coerce women into sex before using violence and threats to keep them silent to protect his reputation. Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his lawyers argue that any of the women who participated in his drug-fueled sex parties were voluntary participants who consented to having sex with male prostitutes while Combs directed, watched and masturbated.
Combs could face the rest of his life in prison if convicted on all counts.
On Tuesday, prosecutors plan to call Combs' former assistant, Brendan Paul, who has been granted immunity so he could testify without fear of being prosecuted himself. Paul was arrested on drug charges last year, around the time Combs' mansions were raided by federal agents. Charges against him were dismissed after Paul agreed to participate in a diversion program.
Jury sees freak-off videos
To conclude the 28th day of the trial, members of the jury donned headphones Monday to watch excerpts of videos showing the orgies Combs allegedly hosted, described by multiple witnesses as "freak-offs," "hotel nights" or "wild king nights."
Prosecutors had previously shown the jury still images from the sex parties, but Monday's testimony marked the first time they saw the video evidence. Prosecutors allege that Combs kept the recordings and used them as leverage over his alleged victims to enforce their silence.
One video was longer than 39 minutes, though the jury saw only a portion of that.
The videos were pulled from a laptop turned over by Combs' ex-girlfriend and star witness, Cassie Ventura. The exhibits were entered into evidence under seal, so they were not accessible to the press or public to view. News organizations had fought for the right of the press or the public to have some ability to see the recordings in order to help the general public understand the nature of what the jury was watching. The judge has refused those efforts.
Prosecutors try to fill in the gaps
The names of Combs' former chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, and security guard Damian Butler were mentioned by other witnesses as key individuals who allegedly assisted Combs. But prosecutors have not called either of them to the stand. Instead, prosecutors on Monday used so-called "summary" witnesses -- a federal agent and government paralegal -- to offer to the jury additional evidence related to the allegations against Combs.
Though prosecutors allege that Combs relied on others to orchestrate his criminal enterprise, no one besides Combs has been charged with any crimes.
In one group of messages shown to the jury on Monday, Khorram and Combs' travel arranger Jessica Ruiz discussed a flight for Jane -- one of Combs' former girlfriends who testified he forced him to participate in sex parties -- and an escort named Paul. Prosecutors hope the evidence could bolster the sex-trafficking allegations against Combs.
Khorram's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News, but they have denied wrongdoing in past statements related to civil lawsuits in which she was mentioned.
Combs' former assistant, known by the pseudonym "Mia," told the jury that Combs' bodyguard, Damian Butler, known as D-Roc, called her and texted her repeatedly in the days and weeks after Cassie Ventura's explosive civil lawsuit became public. According to the testimony, Butler was urging her to talk to Combs.
Butler is not testifying, but a summary witness read into the record some of the call and text logs from his phone. They appear to show him in close communication with Combs while he is breezily chatting with Mia.
Mia testified that the outreach from Butler and Combs "terrified" her. The messages showed how Mia brushed off Butler's repeated offers to "send my sister a gift."
Federal prosecutors allege Combs's prominent record label and music business doubled as a criminal enterprise with the assistance of his bodyguards, who pressured witnesses like Mia "to stay silent and not report what they experienced or knew."
Prosecutors try to show a criminal enterprise
Through summary witnesses, jurors also saw additional business records that prosecutors argue show how Combs used his business to fund his personal life and alleged crimes.
Credit card statements showed Sean Combs used his American Express for Ventura and a male escort to fly separately to New York in December 2009.
The jury was shown a bank statement from one of Combs' businesses -- Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide -- that paid $369,279 to cover the costs of the trip, along with other expenses. The bank statement could help support prosecutors' claim that Combs used his business to engage in sex trafficking by flying escorts across state lines.
Earlier this month, prosecutors called Derek Ferugson, the former chief financial officer of Combs' Enterprises, who testified that Combs' business and personal expenses were often intertwined.
Defense previews their case
With prosecutors expected to rest their case as early as Wednesday, defense attorneys began to preview on Monday the case they will bring to the jury. Combs' lawyers signaled it has as many as three witnesses lined up to testify beginning Friday.
Among the first defense witnesses is going to be Vashta Dunlap, who was a vice president at Bad Boy.
Defense lawyers signaled they may call additional witnesses and did not address whether Combs would take the stand in his own defense.
