AUSA: Let me show you your sign-in sheet for that day
Garcia: Yes, I signed that. Week ending March 10, 2016. AUSA: Could you monitor all the cameras?
Garcia: Not all. But more than one at time.
AUSA: Would you be required to check the monitors?
Garcia: Yes

AUSA: Did you initially recognize the individual involved in this incident?
Garcia: Not at first. But when I looked closer, yes. It was Mr. Sean Combs.
AUSA: And did you learn who the second individual was?
Garcia: Yes. Ms. Cassie Ventura.

AUSA: Why was law enforcement not called?
Garcia: Ms. Ventura did not request it.
AUSA: Did you review the incident report?
Garcia: Yes. There was an attachment that I didn't open on the computer, a video file.
AUSA: Did you receive a call?
Garcia: Yes.

AUSA: From who?
Garcia: Kristina Khorram, with a NY area code. She asked if I had the video.
AUSA: What did she ask for?
Garcia: The video. She said Mr. Combs had been intoxicated and didn't remember exactly -
Combs' Steel: Objection!
J: Sustained
AUSA: Sidebar?
[Sidebar]

[They've back]
AUSA: What did you tell Ms. Khorram?
Garcia: That she would have to talk to management.
AUSA: Did she reach out again?
Garcia: Yes, I got a call from the lobby that she was there looking for me.
AUSA: What did she ask for?
Garcia: The video

AUSA: How did you respond?
Garcia: That she had to talk to management or file a subpoena.
AUSA: Did you tell her what you saw on the video?
Garcia: Yes. I told her, Off the record, it's bad.
AUSA: Did you get another call?
Garcia: Yes. From an NY area code

Garcia: It was Ms. Khorram. She put someone else on the phone.
AUSA: Who?
Garcia: Mr. Combs. He asked, Do you know who I am?
AUSA: What did you say?
Garcia: I said yes. He asked for the video, said he had been intoxicated. I told him, I can't give the video.

AUSA: How did he sound?
Garcia: He was talking fast, and stuttering. He sounded nervous.
AUSA: Did you email management?
Garcia: Yes.
AUSA: Bring up GX 7-R-149. What is it?
Garcia: The email I sent.
Combs' Steel: Objection.
Judge: Overruled

[Email as shown has Khorram's phone number on it, not redacted. It says Combs "aka P. Diddy" says he is a patron and wants to talk to you].
AUSA: Did you get more calls from Ms. Khorram?
Garcia: Yes. On my personal number.
AUSA: How did you react?
A: Nervous

Garcia: I said I didn't have access to the server. He told me he believed I could make it happen, he would take care of me.
AUSA: What did you think he meant?
Garcia: Money for the video.
AUSA: What did you do?
Garcia: Reached out to my supervisor about it.

AUSA: Who was your supervisor?
Garcia: Bill Medrano. He told me he would do it for fifty.
AUSA: What did you think that meant?
Garcia: He'd give the video for $50,000. AUSA: What did you do?
Garcia: Called Kristina, who put Mr. Combs on. He called me Eddy My Angel

Garcia: Mr. Combs told me, I knew you could do it. Let's do it right away. I told Bill Medrano.
AUSA: What'd he do?
Garcia: He went into the server room. Then he handed me a black USB & said, Done. The video was in the USB.
AUSA: What did you do?
Garcia: Told Mr Combs

AUSA: Where was the meeting point?
Garcia: A big high rise building. I called the number and someone came, said he was Mr. Combs' bodyguard.
AUSA: How did he look?
Garcia: Older African American, heavyset, 6'3'' to 6'5".

AUSA: What did he say?
Garcia: That he kind of came up with Mr. Combs, that he was a good guy & I was doing a good thing.
AUSA: Upstairs?
Garcia: Mr. Combs was smiling, called me Eddy My Angel. My voice was cracking so I said I was coming down with something

Garcia: Mr. Combs said it had to be the only copy, nothing in the cloud. I called Mr. Medrano and he said it was the only copy, he took it off the server.
AUSA: What else did you say?
Garcia: That if Cassie filed a complaint I could get in trouble.

Garcia: Mr. Combs said don't worry, Cassie wanted it gone too. He called her on Facetime and showed me. She was in a hoodie but I recognized her.
AUSA: What did Ms. Ventura say?
Garcia: That she had a movie coming out and wanted this to not come out.

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Here's a summary after Diddy tried to get the video from Garcia:

Combs welcomed Garcia, he said. “I believe you know he was making me feel comfortable.”

Garcia testified, “At the time, I was very nervous and my voice kept cracking.”

Garcia said Combs offered him a tea when he said he was coming down with something.

Combs asked him if he liked tea, and when Garcia said he didn’t know, Combs directed Khorram to “go get him that tea I like.”

Her demeanor was normal on the short video call, Garcia recalled.

Diddy also asked for identification for Garcia, Garcia’s boss and the security officer who responded to the incident, Israel Florez.

Diddy said “this only works if we’re all on the same page,” Garcia testified.

Garcia told Diddy he was nervous because he knew Florez, and he said Florez wouldn’t go for it.

“Knowing Mr. Florez, he’s a very by-the-book guy. That’s just not something he would do,” Garcia testified.

Garcia said he then told his boss that Diddy wanted his and Florez’s IDs, and added that he didn’t think Florez would be on board.

His boss said another officer who was on duty that day would do it.

Garcia said he texted pictures of the IDs to Combs.

Diddy then had Eddy Garcia, a former security officer at the InterContinental Hotel, sign paperwork including a declaration that it was the only existing copy of the video and a non-disclosure agreement.

The jury viewed photos of the documents, which were signed and dated March 7.

The NDA was printed on Combs Companies’ letterhead and referenced the company and its New York office address.

Eddy Garcia, a former security officer at the InterContinental Hotel, testified he did not read the documents carefully before signing, and he did not receive any copies.

“I was nervous, I was in a rush to get out of there,” he said.

One part of the agreement read aloud in court stated:

“Recipient understands that Combs is a highly prominent recording artist, entertainer and entrepreneur and his privacy and the confidentiality of the Confidential Information is of material concern.”

Another line from the agreement said:

“Accordingly, without limitation of Company’s and or Combs’ rights as they relate to injunctive Relief detailed above, Recipient agrees to pay Company the sum of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) as liquidated damages in the event of a breach of this Agreement.”

Garcia testified he was earning about $10.50 an hour as a security guard at the time.

After Eddy Garcia, a former security officer at the InterContinental Hotel, signed the paperwork, Diddy grabbed the documents and left the room, returning with a brown bag and a money counter.

Diddy put a total of $100,000 through the money counter in stacks of $10,000 at a time.

Garcia testified that he had previously told Diddy that his boss would do it for $50,000, so Garcia assumed the other $50,000 Diddy counted was for Garcia and who Combs thought was Israel Florez, the responding officer.

Garcia testified that the security guard was present while Diddy counted the money and recalled that Kristina Khorram, Diddy's former chief of staff, was in and out of the room, so she probably saw the money being counted.

After Diddy finished counting the money, he asked Garcia if he wanted to count it himself.

Garcia declined and told Combs he trusted the machine.

When Garcia stood up to leave, Diddy said he’d walk him out, which Garcia testified made him nervous.

Diddy walked down to the lobby with Garcia and requested both of their cars.

Diddy asked Garcia how he was planning to spend the money and suggested Garcia not make any big purchases.

Garcia called Bill Madrano, his boss, from the car while watching to see that he wasn’t being followed.

Garcia split the money with Madrano and the other officer on duty at the time of the incident, Henry Elias, not Florez.

Garcia testified that he gave $50,000 to Madrano and $20,000 to Elias.

He said he bought a used car in cash with the $30,000 he kept for himself.

He said he did not deposit any of the money into a bank account or report it on his taxes.

Garcia said that about a week or two later, he noticed the incident report and attached security footage were no longer on the security computer.

He said he did not report it to anyone because that would “draw more attention to the situation.”

Eddy Garcia testified that he reached out to Diddy through Instagram around 2017 or 2018 asking Diddy if he had any work for him when Diddy was in Los Angeles.

Combs never responded, Garcia said.