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Troy Miller here, filing from the steps of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse, where the aroma of café lattes is now fighting a slick new fragrance: Costco-sized tubs of baby oil. Yes, you read that right. Moments after the verdict in U.S. v. Sean “Diddy” Combs dropped, a knot of Bad Boy die-hards celebrated by hurling palm-sized bottles of Johnson’s finest into the summer air, coating bystanders, TikTokers, and at least one furious TV cameraman in a glistening sheen—but hey, it’s on-brand when the trial evidence included literally a thousand bottles of the stuff. The Split Decision That Wasn’t Supposed to Split After a seven-week slog that featured 34 witnesses, security-cam smackdowns, and more euphemistic talk of “freak-offs” than the FCC can handle, the jury of eight men and four women took just 13 hours over three days to hand down a mixed verdict: Not Guilty on racketeering conspiracy (the life-sentence bullet), Not Guilty on two sex-trafficking counts tied to Cassie Ventura and “Jane,” Guilty on two counts of transporting those same women across state lines “to engage in prostitution” under the Mann Act. Diddy escaped the most serious charges, who pulled strings? What does Diddy know? Each Mann Act conviction carries up to 10 years, though the guidelines point to ~5 years. Prosecutors want the max; the defense thinks two will do. Bail? Still TBD. When the foreperson read the last “not guilty,” Diddy dropped to one knee, hit the prayer emoji IRL, then turned to the gallery and clapped back at the universe. Inside: cheers. Outside: the aforementioned baby-oil baptism. It’s the first time a hip-hop crowd has out-slipped the New York summer humidity. Polymarket suggests a 70% chance Diddy gets less than 5 years prison time, Source: Polymarket Prosecutors 0-for-Racketeering, Defense 2-for-Damage Control For the feds, this…

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