and for more on this investigation let's bring in former FBI assistant director Chris Wecker Chris great to have you on the show I mean the big headline there is kind of what we want to get into you with because it is now been confirmed this is a sex trafficking case but Shan Colmes is not the target Welly he sure looks like the target though Chris what are your thoughts yeah I mean apparently HSI is leaking out a lot of information and you're right it looks like there's a very significant sex t
rafficking human trafficking uh investigation underway and it looks like it's coming out of the HSI uh division of international organized crime or some something along those lines so it looks pretty significant got two major search warrants a lot of lot of process around those search warrants a lot of kitted out uh tactical people raiding those two locations so it it looks like a lot of drama around all this and you know there's enough probable cause because you don't get search warrants withou
t strong probable cause that there is a at least a human trafficking sex trafficking ring at at work here and explain that to us if you would Chris because I know we have talked about Jonathan just talked about the fact that there have been a number of lawsuits brought against sha combes women U alleging that he drugged them and Etc and so on my questioning where does the trafficking come in there what is it what is it that we need to constitute human trafficking sex trafficking Etc yeah that th
at's a great question because it looks like some of these lawsuits are or sort of personal lawsuits sexual assaults uh sort of oneoff so to to make human trafficking or make a human trafficking violation under federal law you have to be taking women against their will and forcing them to to commit sexual acts query whether there are underage women involved in this investigation that would make it even more serious if underage uh women or men are are being forced to commit sexual acts crossing st
ate lines crossing International boundaries and also question mark is what does this tie into a an organized crime group a Human Trafficking Organization and I you I can tell you the federal agencies don't like to get involved in one-off type cases the neither the FBI or HSI will engage in small oneoff one or two you know prostitution rings and that sort of thing if they're if they're working this case there are every indications that this is a serious significant human trafficking ring here yea
h yeah and I I just want to kind of go one further with you on that because here is former Federal prosecutor Andrew chaski what he had to say about this they allege uh everything from rape to sex trafficking to being drugged and then also things like sexual harassment and other workplace type violence or or abuses that are going on I put this somewhere in between a Harvey Weinstein and an R Kelly type of case uh so I think that that the criminal aspects are something that have to be deeply inve
stigated in other words he's saying Chris this is a significant case and now you've got the uh you know you've got the southern district of New York involved in this a lot of Heavy Hitters uh in that in that area so it really looks like you know Sean Colmes Diddy is in some trouble it appears so I mean the question is since they're issuing some disclaimers about the him being the target is he really the target I mean it sure seems so I mean logic would tell you they're going to his house going b
oth houses they're focusing on his two sons they have them in zip ties during the course of the search warrants uh they they may have searched this airplane at opaka and detained some people at opaka airport which I work down in Miami that's an airport of some notoriety it's a small airport used to be a Smuggler airport so you know there's a lot to work with here and I I guess it all rolls back around to it's a pretty significant investigation if you got HSI going to all this trouble out of the
southern district of New York which is a serious District yeah former FBI assistant director Chris Chris Wecker Chris great to have you on the show as always thank you thanks Trace
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