Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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After receiving a four-year prison sentence in October 2025, Sean “Diddy” Combs now faces an even more devastating blow: the loss of control. A federal forfeiture order has handed over every piece of digital media tied to his sex trafficking conviction to the FBI—tapes, hard drives, phones, and cameras. What once served as private leverage has now become state-owned evidence.
In this breakdown, we dig deep into what civil forfeiture really means—how it works, why the Mann Act was used, and how the government can seize even “consensual” material if it facilitated a crime. We explore the eerie symbolism of the government now owning Diddy’s unfiltered archive—the raw footage of a life built on secrecy and control.
From Shkreli’s Wu-Tang album to Madoff’s mansions, this is how power unravels: not in a courtroom, but in an auction house, an evidence vault, and in headlines that strip away brand and leave behind only case numbers.
#DiddyTrial #CivilForfeiture #FreakOffTapes #MannAct #FBIInvestigation #JusticeSystem #DiddySentencing #HiddenKillers #AssetSeizure #CelebrityCrime
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In this breakdown, we dig deep into what civil forfeiture really means—how it works, why the Mann Act was used, and how the government can seize even “consensual” material if it facilitated a crime. We explore the eerie symbolism of the government now owning Diddy’s unfiltered archive—the raw footage of a life built on secrecy and control.
From Shkreli’s Wu-Tang album to Madoff’s mansions, this is how power unravels: not in a courtroom, but in an auction house, an evidence vault, and in headlines that strip away brand and leave behind only case numbers.
#DiddyTrial #CivilForfeiture #FreakOffTapes #MannAct #FBIInvestigation #JusticeSystem #DiddySentencing #HiddenKillers #AssetSeizure #CelebrityCrime
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video?
Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
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X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
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