070.44932** – Legal Reporting in Mass Media

A former hotel security guard took the stand Tuesday in federal court and testified that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs paid him $100,000 in cash to suppress a 2016 surveillance video that captured Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, inside the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. The video — now a critical piece of…