Remember this story from 2018? An armed man shot up the lobby of the Trump National Doral Hotel in Miami, forcing a temporary evacuation while the perp dragged around an American flag. One police subdued him, Jonathan Oddi went off on weird rants during his police interrogation, claiming to have been part of a sex-trafficking ring run by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and other rappers, while also spewing some nonsensical claims about Barack Obama and Donald Trump as well. Police at the time figured Oddi was in a manic-psychotic state after having stopped taking meds.
Well, back that train up the track a bit. Testimony yesterday in Combs’ sex-trafficking trial confirmed Oddi’s claims in that 2018 police interrogation, at least according to the prosecution’s star witness, Cassie Ventura. Oddi did take part in the “freak-offs” run by Combs, according to Ventura, and had been close to the inner circle around Diddy until his arrest:
Jonathan Oddi was busted in 2018 after he was caught on camera carrying an American flag and raving about President Trump as he barged into the lobby of his golf resort.
After his arrest, he claimed he had been kept as a “sex slave” by Combs, video from his interview with police showed.
Oddi was one of 13 male escorts Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, identified in Manhattan federal court Wednesday as sex workers hired for “freak-offs” — bringing the total for the trial to 16.
This began coming out last week as the prosecution’s case unfolded. Four years before the shooting, Oddi signed a non-disclosure agreement with Combs that reportedly paid him $5 million to keep his mouth shut. The Daily Mail exposed the NDA last week, and Oddi claimed that he desperately needed the cash at the time. Hmmmm:
Oddi claimed he was making just $2,000 a month as a fitness trainer and had a net worth of negative $1,800 in the divorce documents.
Despite that, he went on a spending spree less than a month after the divorce was finalized, buying five distressed properties for $765,000 in the space of two months, NBC Miami reported, citing Miami-Dade County property records.
All of the properties were purchased mortgage-free, suggesting they were bought with cash.
This would have been around the same time he allegedly received his $5 million windfall from Diddy.
However, that’s not the oddest part of this story. Recall that the shooting took place in May 2018 — seven years ago, almost to the day. And for some reason, Oddi still hasn’t come to trial yet:
Oddi is currently in jail in Miami-Dade County, awaiting trial on charges of attempted felony murder of law enforcement officers, armed burglary, and armed grand theft.
YouTube analyst Nate the Lawyer notes this too with a tone of disbelief, in a video he released this morning that has part of Oddi’s police interrogation from 2018. It’s worth watching in full:
How could it possibly take seven years to try someone for crimes he committed on camera, and for which he was arrested on the scene? It’s not as if police had to spend five years determining his identity and tracking him overseas as a fugitive. There’s no doubt about the identity of the suspect, and it doesn’t even appear from this video that Oddi denied it, although he may have done so in other questioning. Even if Oddi’s mental state might have delayed his trial, that would be part of the public record — and even competency determination shouldn’t take this long.
Did Oddi’s inside info kick off the feds’ probe into Diddy? Double hmmmm. At the very least, these circumstances seem almost like a Matrix glitch.
Addendum: Nate the Lawyer has some very good content on his YouTube channel. He has a very common-sense approach that readers may well appreciate.
