Live updates: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial continues with investigation into Cassie Ventura relationship

A non-disclosure agreement from Sean “Diddy” Combs’ business signed by a former security officer could be a key piece of evidence used by prosecutors in court, according to criminal defense attorney Stacy Schneider.

Eddy Garcia, a former security officer at the InterContinental Hotel, testified today about his involvement in a 2016 video of Combs that shows him physically assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

Garcia said on the stand that he accepted $100,000 from Combs in exchange for video footage of the incident. Combs had Garcia sign a non-disclosure agreement at the time declaring that there was no other copies of it.

Schneider said the NDA from Combs’ business stood out to her.

“So prosecutors are trying to prove this is a racketeering conspiracy run by what they call in the indictment the Combs’ enterprise,” she told CNN’s Boris Sanchez and Erica Hill today. “So these are little pieces of linkage to the business.”

She went on to note that while Garcia’s testimony is not “the end all, be all” in terms of proving that Combs committed racketeering, the former security officer’s account is still “very important because from the prosecution’s perspective, it shows what we call indicia of guilt, awareness of guilt.”

“It looks like this testimony is being presented to cover up an alleged crime. That alleged crime is engaging with a prostitute, allegedly subjecting Cassie Ventura to the ‘Freak Offs’ and coerced sexual activity. So it’s a very important element for the prosecution to show,” Schneider said.