Sean Piccoli

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Dominic Patten |Sean Piccoli

Harvey Weinstein is one step closer to learning what his fate will be at the hands of the jury in his New York rape retrial. After a Tuesday morning session in front of Judge Curtis Farber haggling over material that may or may not go to the jury (it won’t), Weinstein’s Arthur Aidala-led defense rested its case – without calling its client to testify for himself. Moving deftly, the proceedings are now in closing arguments, with Aidala pleading Weinstein’s merits before the jurors.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Alyce McFadden |Wesley Parnell |Sean Piccoli

Beach season began Saturday with 280 lifeguards, well short of what the city needs, amid a yearslong staffing shortage. But more will come by summer's peak. New York City's 14 miles of public beaches opened for the season on Saturday, moving the city one step closer to the official start of summer. And with the opening of the beaches came the lifeguards. Before 10 a.m., groups of them made their way to posts across the city, from Orchard Beach in the Bronx to Rockaway Beach in Queens.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dominic Patten |Sean Piccoli

UPDATE, 4:25 PM: “He was always sitting in a corner masturbating,” a paid chevalier servant of Cassie Ventura said of Sean Combs. The scene was a standing room only courtroom Monday afternoon on the first day of the man known as Diddy’s sex-trafficking trial.

3 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Dominic Patten |Sean Piccoli

“This is Sean Combs,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Ann Johnson told a Manhattan jury Monday in the courtroom on the opening day of Combs’ sex-trafficking trial. Cutting to the chase about the sordid allegations of rape, abuse and assault against the rapper and Bad Boy Records founder, Johnson in the prosecution’s opening argument listed off “crime after crime” of “kidnapping, arson, drugs, sex crimes, bribery” and more that the feds claim Combs committed over the span of two decades.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dominic Patten |Sean Piccoli

EXCLUSIVE: Hours before opening statements in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial are set to start before a yet-to-be-seated jury, the defense is poised to take advantage of a self-wound of sorts by the prosecution. As of Sunday night, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York has yet to re-establish contact with a key witness against the Bad Boy Records founder, I hear.