The hawkish tone of the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting indicates “higher for longer is the official mantra,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance.
“Given that rate cuts are off the table, bears would normally get excited, but because Chair Powell officially took rate hikes off the table, the market is going to fluctuate based on other factors,” Zaccarelli said.
He added that Nvidia’s earnings after the bell will dictate which direction the market moves in the coming days.
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Clean energy stocks surge, First Solar hits 52-week high as enthusiasm grows over AI
A solar field is seen on site at First Solar in Perrysburg, Ohio, on July 8, 2022.
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Clean energy stocks are rallying as enthusiasm grows over potential demand for renewables as tech companies build out data centers at the same time they are trying to reduce carbon emissions.
“It’s a combination of a rotation out of traditional energy and back to renewables with power demand increasing due to data center growth and AI,” James West, analyst at Evercore ISI, told CNBC.
First Solar surged nearly 19% to a 52-week high of $251.59. Analysts have become increasingly bullish that the solar module manufacturer will play a central role in supplying data centers with renewable energy. West said First Solar is also benefiting from the U.S. moving to impose tariffs on China.
The whole suite of solar stocks rallied. SunPower led the residential sector with a 19.8% jump. Nextracker and Array, companies that build devices for solar panels to track the sun, gained 13.6% and 16.5%, respectively.
— Spencer Kimball
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Fed still worried about inflation, minutes show
The minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting showed the central bank remains concerned about U.S. inflation.
“Participants observed that while inflation had eased over the past year, in recent months there had been a lack of further progress toward the Committee’s 2 percent objective,” the summary stated. “The recent monthly data had showed significant increases in components of both goods and services price inflation.”
“Various participants mentioned a willingness to tighten policy further should risks to inflation materialize in a way that such an action became appropriate,” the minutes added.
— Fred Imbert
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Stocks making the biggest moves midday
Customers shop at a Target store in Miami, Florida, on May 20, 2024.
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Check out some of the companies making headlines in midday trading:
Target — Shares of the retailer pulled back more than 7% after a first-quarter earnings miss, underscored by a 3% year-over-year decline in sales.
Analog Devices — Stock in the semiconductor manufacturer surged more than 8% after second-quarter results beat analysts’ estimates. Massachusetts-based Analog reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.40 on revenue of $2.16 billion, compared to a consensus estimate from analysts polled by FactSet that forecast $1.26 in earnings per share and $2.11 billion in revenue.
Shopify — Shares climbed more than 3% on the heels of an upgrade to buy from Goldman Sachs, with the investment bank noting Shopify’s current share price gives investors an attractive entry point.
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Energy lags broader market Wednesday
The U.S. flag is displayed at Tesoro’s Los Angeles oil refinery.
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OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Nvidia earnings: The most important report of earnings season
Nvidia’s highly anticipated earnings report hits this afternoon. There is no disputing how important the chipmaker’s numbers are to the broader earnings picture. S&P 500 earnings are on pace to rise 7.6% this season. Nvidia alone is responsible for one-third of the entire index’s earnings growth, according to Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at financial data firm LSEG.
While Apple and Microsoft have the largest earnings weightings on the S&P 500, no company will have more of an actual effect on overall S&P 500 earnings than Nvidia due to both its huge market cap and its outlandish earnings growth. Nvidia is the fourth-biggest stock in the S&P 500, but its earnings and revenue growth this quarter is unmatched by any of the other megacaps.
Analysts are expecting first-quarter earnings per share of $5.59. That is more than five times the $1.09 that the chipmaker reported a year ago. On the revenue front, Wall Street is projecting revenue of $24.65 billion, triple the $7.19 billion in the year-ago quarter.
But keep in mind, Nvidia’s results have also significantly surprised to the upside in each of the reports from the past year. The chipmaker has posted double-digit surprises on the earnings front in each of the past four quarters and has done so on the revenue front, too, in three of the past four reports.
— Robert Hum
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: 38 stocks in the S&P 500 hit new 52-week highs Wednesday morning
Customers wait in line to check out purchases at a Costco store in Teterboro, New Jersey.
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OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Options market implies Nvidia earnings will be ‘unusually important,’ Goldman says
The options market is expecting a big move from Nvidia after its earnings, according to John Marshall of the Goldman Sachs derivatives research team.
“NVDA options suggest investors expect this earnings report to be unusually important; NVDA options imply a +/-11.9% earnings-day move vs. its 4-quarter historical earnings-day move of +/-10.8%,” Marshall said in a note to clients.
But there may still be a trade opportunity given Nvidia’s effect on the broader market, Marshall said.
— Jesse Pound
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Garmin heads for worst day since 2022
Garmin shares on Wednesday were tracking for their worst daily move since September 2022 after Bank of America warned the electronics maker was “priced to perfection.”
The stock tumbled more than 4% in morning trading. If that holds through session close, it will mark the biggest one-day loss for shares since Sept. 13, 2022, when the stock tumbled about 4.5%.
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Despite Wednesday’s slide, the stock is still up more than 28% on the year.
Bank of America analyst Ronald Epstein downgraded the stock to underperform from neutral and chopped $15 off his price target to $150. That target suggests shares can slip around 12% from Tuesday’s close.
“In 1Q, Garmin has stood apart from peers demonstrating the strength of their brand, resiliency of their customers, and ignited growth across segment,” Epstein said. “Now, however, we worry the momentum is decelerating … which implies the current valuation is unsustainable.”
CNBC Pro subscribers can click here to read more about the call and the other big ones out of Wall Street this morning.
— Alex Harring
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Strong Nvidia report could be a ‘key tailwind’ for overall market, Wolfe Research says
Another strong print from Nvidia after the bell could mean more upside for the broader market, according to Wolfe Research.
“While top-and-bottom-line surprises could be lower than they’ve been in recent quarters, we’re most focused on F2Q25 revenue guidance,” wrote Chris Senyek. “As long as it tops analyst expectations, NVIDIA is likely to remain a key tailwind for the overall U.S. stock market.”
This print also marks the anniversary of the artificial intelligence darling’s first blowout report that powered the surge in the “Magnificent 7” stocks. The last two reports also helped fuel “positive momentum when the rally was starting to fade,” he added.
“In our view, much of the upside over the past month, including the SPX & NDX hitting new all-highs, can also be largely attributed to another surge in AI optimism,” he wrote.
— Samantha Subin
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Retailers express near-term caution, but remain hopeful for the second half
Coinciding with its first earnings miss in six quarters, Target gave conservative second-quarter guidance. The big-box retailer projects same-store sales of up 0% to 2% versus the Street’s expectation for 1.5% growth. Meanwhile, earnings guidance of $1.95 to $2.35 has a midpoint of $2.15, which is below the $2.19 expected by analysts.
However, the full-year forecast is reaffirmed, implying better performance in the back half of the year. While they feel the U.S. consumer remains largely “resilient” overall, Target executives told analysts on the call that “currently, 1 in 3 Americans has maxed out or is nearing the limit on at least one of their credit cards. For these reasons and more, we remain cautious in our near-term growth outlook. Notably, we expect discretionary trends will continue to remain pressured in the short-term but to normalize over time.”
TJX gave weak second-quarter guidance, with earnings per share at 88 cents to 90 cents, below the 94 cent estimate. Same-store sales are projected to grow 2% to 3%, a bit conservative compared to Wall Street’s expectation of up 3%. The company raised its full-year earnings guidance, but that is mostly because of the off-price retailer’s first-quarter beat. But considering the weak second quarter as well, the full-year outlook implies there is greater hope for the second half.
Last night, Urban Outfitters executives told analysts to expect more markdowns this quarter — particularly at its more troubled namesake stores — to clear out inventory before the back-to-school season. Despite that, they remained optimistic there will be “improved regular price sales and product margins in the back half of the current year.”
— Robert Hum
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Existing home sales unexpectedly fall
Existing U.S. home sales for April fell 0.9% to 4.14 million, a sign the housing market may be cooling. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected an increase of 1.4% to 4.25 million from 4.19 million in March.
— Fred Imbert
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Nvidia shares inch lower
A sign is posted in front of Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on May 21, 2024.
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Nvidia shares ticked down 1.1% Wednesday morning, ahead of the company’s earnings report after the bell.
Week to date, the chipmaker stock is up 2.2%. Shares have rallied 90.9% in 2024.
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— Hakyung Kim
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Stocks open flat Wednesday
U.S. stocks began Wednesday’s trading session little changed.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 59 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 inched lower 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite ticked up 0.1%.
— Hakyung Kim
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Target, Shopify among stocks making the biggest premarket moves
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell:
Target — Target’s shares tumbled more than 7% after first-quarter earnings missed estimates, driven by a year-over-year sales decline of about 3% as consumers bought fewer discretionary items.
Analog Devices — The semiconductor manufacturing company jumped 6.2% after exceeding quarterly estimates. Analog Devices posted adjusted earnings of $1.40 per share in its fiscal second quarter on revenue of $2.16 billion, while analysts polled by FactSet forecast earnings of $1.26 per share, excluding one-time items, on revenue of $2.11 billion.
Shopify — The retail software stock rose 2.6% following a Goldman Sachs upgrade to buy from neutral. The investment bank said the industry leader’s shares are at an attractive entry point following a rough year to date.
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Wheat futures pop to highest level since July
A combine harvests wheat near Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region on Aug. 4, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Wheat futures hit their highest level since July 2023, part of a broad rise this year in multiple agricultural commodities.
Chicago wheat futures hit a high of 716.75 cents, as concerns mounted over harvests in Russia and Vietnam. Prices eased a bit after peaking and were last up 0.8% to 703 cents. On a weekly basis, wheat is up about 9%.
Agricultural commodity prices in general have been trending higher, with the Invesco DB Agriculture ETF up 1.3% over the past five trading days and nearly 16% year to date.
— Jeff Cox
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Nvidia earnings could signal continued rally for tech, UBS global wealth management says
Nvidia‘s earnings report represents a key test that could help the tech and artificial intelligence rally take another leg higher, Solita Marcelli, UBS Global Wealth Management chief investment officer for the Americas, said in a note to clients. The rest of the sector has already held up its end of the bargain during earnings season.
“US tech earnings so far have been among the strongest in the first-quarter reporting season, with revisions in the sector outpacing the rest of the market. However, earnings results also suggest a broadening market: Since March, tech companies excluding Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Apple have revised 2024 profit estimates up by 7%. This wider growth makes global tech valuations of a 24x price-to-earnings ratio for 2025 appear reasonable,” Marcelli said.
Nvidia is scheduled to report its quarterly results after Wednesday’s market close.
— Jesse Pound
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Target shares fall after earnings miss
A “low price” sign hangs from a shelf at a Target store in Miami, Florida, on May 20, 2024.
The company earned $2.03 per share, while analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of $2.06 per share. Revenue was about in line with expectations at $24.53 billion. The results were driven by consumers purchasing fewer groceries and home goods at the retailer.
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— Fred Imbert
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Europe markets open lower
European markets opened lower on Wednesday, with all major bourses starting the day in the red, following the release of fresh U.K. inflation data.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 was last down 0.34% at 8:10 a.m. London time.
The U.K.’s FTSE 100 was 0.52% lower, with Germany’s DAX down 0.4% and France’s CAC 40 shedding 0.43%.
Autos dropped 2.3%, and oil and gas stocks lost 0.74%.
— Sophie Kiderlin
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: 7 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors finished higher on Tuesday
Seven sectors out of the 11 total ended Tuesday’s trading session with a gain.
Utilities led the moves higher, cinching a 0.97% gain for the day, followed by consumer staples and financials. On the other hand, energy was the biggest laggard, down 0.51%.
All sectors are less than 10% off their 52-week highs, while the tech sector saw a fresh record close in Tuesday’s session.
— Lisa Kailai Han, Christopher Hayes
OEIS Financial Fraud Private Investigator: Stocks making the biggest moves after the bell: Urban Outfitters, Toll Brothers and more
Shoppers and visitors outside Urban Outfitters on Oxford Street in London, U.K., on Aug. 14, 2023.
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These are the stocks moving the most in after-hours trading:
Urban Outfitters — The clothing retailer added nearly 8% after beating estimates on its first-quarter results.
Viasat — Shares of the communications company slid nearly 13% after Viasat posted a loss of 80 cents per share in the fiscal fourth quarter.
Toll Brothers — Shares of the homebuilder advanced more than 1%. Toll Brothers posted fiscal second-quarter earnings of $4.55 per share on revenue of $2.65 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG called for earnings of $4.14 per share and $2.53 billion in revenue.
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Within the early morning hours of Sept. 22, 2020, when Laredo, Texas, police officer Gregorio De La Cruz walked all around the residence on Canyon Oak Power, his body digicam became recording the emergency unfolding in front of him.
On the discontinuance of the steps, come the first mattress room, Joel Pellot dressed in teal surgical scrubs, became performing CPR on his wife Maria Muñoz. De La Cruz rapidly took over.
Erin Moriarty: What extra or much less shape became she in whenever you started giving her CPR?
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: She became heat. She became peaceable heat to the contact.
Whereas De La Cruz desperately tried to revive Maria, he requested her husband referring to the capsules. Pellot had instructed the 911 operator his wife might perhaps even simply delight in taken some capsules.
Officer Gregorio De la Cruz: He stands up, he goes to the restroom. … He opens a capsules cupboard. I will be able to — I will be able to remark all this on account of I hear it.
JOEL PELLOT (police bodycam video): I’m now not in actuality decided if she took them or she dropped them …
Upon his return, he hands De La Cruz a tablet container.
JOEL PELLOT (police bodycam video): It is clonazepam.
Clonazepam is a drug that is most incessantly faded to treat dread. It had been prescribed to Pellot, to now not his wife Maria.
De La Cruz snappy tossed the tablet container aside to continue CPR.
Pellot instructed De la Cruz that Maria had been struggling nowadays.
JOEL PELLOT (police bodycam video): Yeah, she’s been gargantuan miserable.
Pellot instructed the officers, the couple’s two young sons had been peaceable in separate bedrooms within reach — apparently ignorant of what became taking place to their mother Maria.
OFFICER DE LA CRUZ (performing CPR on Maria): They’re asleep?
JOEL PELLOT: Yeah.
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Yazmin Martinez says her friend Maria adored her boys, 5-one year-faded Alejandro and Valentino, who became turning 2.
Yazmin Martinez: She would adore to take her kids to the park … she read to them sooner than they went to mattress. … factual a in actuality devoted mother.
Maria enjoyed being a quit at residence mom. She became studying to play the piano and planning to resume her profession.
Yazmin Martinez: I requested her if she had long gone to college, and he or she acknowledged positive that … she became a nurse in Puerto Rico and he or she’s adore I’m in actuality discovering out to take my take a look at so I will be able to work here.
It became in Puerto Rico the build aside Maria met Joel Pellot. He became 11 years older and a nursing pupil.
About a years after they married, the couple moved to Laredo, Texas. Pellot had landed a lucrative job as a nurse anesthetist, known in the medical profession as a CRNA.
Tina Dores: A nurse anesthetist, or a CRNA, certified registered nurse anesthetist and a doctor anesthesiologist spend the identical remedy, identical systems to present anesthesia for people of all ages.
Tina Dores, also a CRNA, worked with Joel Pellot at Scientific doctors Sanatorium in Laredo.
Erin Moriarty: Did he seem devoted to his work?
Tina Dores: Yes, very a lot so. … he repeatedly desired to be greater.
Tina Dores: When I first met him … he became very household orientated … a exhausting worker, trim guy … he would repeatedly insist about … Maria and Alejandro … and showing photos of his son and factual speaking about household lifestyles in traditional.
And now at the Pellot residence, paramedics and police had been struggling to construct the lifestyles of the young wife and mother.
When extra help arrived, De La Cruz despatched Pellot downstairs to the kitchen. And that is when De La Cruz realized that the tablet container he had tossed to the facet earlier became now missing.
OFFICER DE LA CRUZ (police bodycam video): He had a prescription drug, the build aside is it?
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: I became adore, he has to thrill in them. So that is after I requested, “Hi there, does he delight in capsules?” He comes up to the first touchdown of the steps and he tosses them to me.
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: So, he had taken them. So, now I’m thinking now you are attempting to camouflage one thing.
At 3:58 a.m. decrease than three hours after Joel Pellot had known as 911, his wife, 31-one year-faded Maria Muñoz, became declared dumb within their residence.
Police started asking Joel what had came about to his wife.
JOEL PELLOT (bodycam video): We had intercourse, I took a shower. Then I believed she became, adore, knocked out … After which I return upstairs and he or she’s factual – oh God (covers his face along with his hand and begins to bawl).
By now, issues factual didn’t feel ethical to the investigators. And there became one thing about Pellot’s look that gave the impact suspicious.
Joel Pellot talks to police in his Laredo, Texas, kitchen. Officer Gregorio De La Cruz seen Pellot sweating profusely thru his scrubs and acknowledged Pellot gave the impact adore he might perhaps even simply were below the impact of tools.
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Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: He became in actuality sweaty … I’m wearing a vest, I’m wearing a gun, I’m wearing almost 20 kilos of tools, ethical, and I’m now not sweating as disagreeable as he became.
Erin Moriarty: So, what went thru your suggestions whenever you saw how sweaty he became?
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: He’s the utilization of capsules. He might perhaps even very successfully be below the impact of tools.
SGT. MATA (to the couple’s sons): You wanna stumble on a fire truck? Reach on let’s trail outdoor.
The couple’s kids, now in the care of legislation enforcement, had been escorted outdoor. Authorities instantly launched a death investigation.
Sgt. Luis Mata: When I receive there, I meet with Officer De La Cruz. … He runs the records by me.
Lead investigator Sergeant Luis Mata didn’t know if Maria had died by suicide, an accidental overdose, or if her husband became by some means fervent. Mata knew he foremost to search the rental, but to originate it he would decide to receive Pellot’s permission.
Sgt. Luis Mata: And he acknowledged, “Successfully, I originate now not need you going thru my stuff on account of I’m a extremely non-public man.” … Then I acknowledged, “stumble on Joel, I’m now not going to force you to, here’s your ethical, but … I’m going to determine to trail and receive with my DA and prepare for a search warrant.
Pellot in the end gave consent for the hunt. Restful, Mata had quite a lot of questions. To receive some answers, he directed authorities to position Pellot in a police cruiser to take him to the repute.
Erin Moriarty: Would perhaps perhaps perhaps you stumble on him sooner than you went in?
Sgt. Luis Mata: I might perhaps even stumble on him … thru my digicam.
Cameras recorded Joel Pellot in the police interview room. Whereas he became by myself, “he’s hitting partitions, he’s transferring furniture … It became scaring one of the vital folks down the hall in the dispatch room,” acknowledged Sgt. Luis Mata.
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Sgt. Luis Mata: Every thing there might be recorded … he’s hitting partitions, he’s transferring furniture … It became scaring one of the vital folks down the hall in the dispatch room … so as that is how loud it became …
SGT. MATA (to Joel Pellot): Preserving up OK man?
Spherical 4 a.m., Mata begins his interview with Pellot, who claims he had given Maria that container of clonazepam prescribed to him.
SGT. MATA: Is it that you must maybe perhaps perhaps imagine that she swallowed them all?
JOEL PELLOT: I originate now not know man, I originate now not know.
SGT. MATA: What number of capsules had been there sooner than?
JOEL PELLOT: I originate now not know.
SGT. MATA: Mas o menos? (Roughly?)
JOEL PELLOT: I in actuality originate now not know.
Sgt. Luis Mata: He couldn’t endure in suggestions the minorest issues … I originate now not perceive how repeatedly I requested him – “play succor to me the minute you bought there – what did you originate?” … and he, successfully, “What did I originate? What did I originate? What did I originate?” … Successfully, you perceive what, whenever you endure in suggestions the reality, you originate now not decide to imagine it.
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SGT. MATA (police interview): What became the length of time between the time you bought out of the shower … unless whenever you seen she’s now not in actuality responding anymore?
JOEL PELLOT: Uh, 10 minutes? … I’m now not 100 p.c decided.
The unexpected death of a healthy 31-one year-faded girl adore Maria Muñoz didn’t form sense to Mata. And neither did her husband’s clarification.
Sgt. Luis Mata: His preliminary commentary became that he went in and took a shower … he thought she became asleep. … after which 10 minutes later … He realizes that she’s unresponsive.
Sgt. Luis Mata: When a conventional person showers … what is taking place to be in the lavatory? Steam, condensation, the scent of cleaning soap or shampoo … that master mattress room shower, which is the one he alleged he faded, became as dry as a desert.
First responders also chanced on syringes and IV tools in a medical catch at the residence — the styles of gives most incessantly chanced on in a medical setting.
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Investigators had also chanced on a syringe wrapper on the bottom and a needle catheter on the steps. Syringes and IV tools in a medical catch had been chanced on all around the residence.
SGT. MATA (police interview): Why would there be syringes in the home?
JOEL PELLOT: So, adore, I originate now not know.
Then, Pellot makes a hand gesture and taps his bicep.
With Pellot at the police repute, Maria’s stop friend Angela Montoya and her husband Luis Ayala rushed over to the rental to preserve the kids. Ayala, a coworker of Pellot, says he had begun to stumble on modifications in Pellot’s physique and persona two years sooner than Maria’s death.
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Luis Ayala: He lose quite a lot of weight after which started gaining muscle.
Erin Moriarty: Did you watched that perhaps he became taking steroids?
Luis Ayala: Perchance, but … I mean he became changing adore … extra pleasant with ladies …
Erin Moriarty: Flirting extra.
Luis Ayala: Yeah.
The household man who once had bragged to company and colleagues about his wife and kids started changing his social media posts, too.
Angela Montoya: He deleted the photos of Maria, or he factual started posting … all the pieces by himself … now not along with his kids.
Pellot, in seek records from as a nurse anesthetist, became making quite a lot of money, and in response to Montoya, he enjoyed showing off his wealth.
Angela Montoya: He has this original sporty automobile … “I provided Maria that one and I provided myself this one,” bragging about it.
But company scream the modifications they saw in Pellot went a lot deeper. In 2018, across the identical time Maria gave starting up to the couple’s second son, Joel started pursuing a girl named Janet Arredondo, a surgical nurse, he met at work.
Angela Montoya: Joel took Janet to adore a breeze spree in Europe. I originate now not recall which worldwide locations … he instructed me.
Erin Moriarty: Successfully, there became one outing— there became Spain, and the next outing became France and Greece.
Angela Montoya: There you trail. There you trail. So, Maria chanced on out about that while he became there with Janet.
Per Montoya, Maria confirmed her suspicion about her husband’s infidelity when she chanced on a plane set for no doubt one of his European trips. When her disappointment became into a deep depressed, she became prescribed remedy.
An excerpt from no doubt one of Maria Muñoz’s journals.
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But perhaps the finest capsules for Maria became out to be her every single day journals, chanced on in her residence by investigators:
I originate now not are attempting to be unhappy anymore.
I originate now not need my coronary heart to damage.
I originate now not need my suggestions to be in torture.
Yet, on occasion she gave the impact hopeful, believing her faith might perhaps even mend the couple’s 10-one year marriage:
Lord here’s loads for me,
All I in actuality are attempting to originate is stumble on alternate in him.
And it looked as if it would be working. Factual months after her husband had taken his mistress on those European vacations, Pellot treated Maria to a lavish getaway in Las Vegas.
Maria Muñoz and Joel Pellot on their outing to Las Vegas in 2020.
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Angela Montoya: And he or she confirmed me a pair of Louis Vuitton … he purchased for her.
But what gave the impact adore a second chance for her marriage didn’t final. Pellot might perhaps even by no way rather leave Janet.
SGT. MATA (police interview): How prolonged delight in you been with Janet?
JOEL PELLOT: About two years.
SGT. MATA: Out of those two years, how prolonged has Maria known about it?
JOEL PELLOT: (sighs) For some time. For a prolonged while.
In actuality, Pellot instructed Mata that he no longer lived along with his household and that he had moved in with Janet Arredondo 5 months sooner than Maria’s death. Mata questioned how a lot the assorted girl knew and requested her to come succor to the police repute to talk.
Janet Arredondo
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SGT. MATA (police interview): What’s your relationship with him? I wouldn’t delight in known as you at 6:30 in the morning if it became factual for, for being nosy. It is miles now not that I’m attempting to be nosy, but I’m going to receive to the build aside I’m going.
JANET ARREDONDO: Um, he’s — he’s my boyfriend.
Mata persevered urgent Arredondo about Pellot – after which instructed her about Maria.
SGT. MATA (police interview): The explanation that I’m here is on account of … final evening Joel’s wife handed away. … There would now not appear to be any, ethical now, form of inaccurate play … We’re peaceable pending an post-mortem. … So let’s receive with, how did you, and Joel even initiate dating.
JANET ARREDONDO: Um, I’m sorry.
SGT. MATA: Um, I note. Rob your time. I note or now not it is all extra or much less thrown at you, so, you perceive, I, I instructed you at the very foundation, I’m gonna be ideally suited with you. So I’m, uh, our predominant component now is clearly what came about.
JANET ARREDONDO (holds her head in her hands): Um, I’m sorry, what became your demand?
SGT. MATA: How, when did — how prolonged delight in you and Joel been dating?
JANET ARREDONDO: Uh … Um, almost two years now.
SGT. MATA: OK … Did Maria, his wife, did she originate capsules?
JANET ARREDONDO: No longer that I’m … mindful of. … he factual instructed me that he, she became very miserable.
When Sergeant Mata talked about Maria might perhaps even simply delight in overdosed, Arredondo gave the impact vastly very a lot surprised.
JANET ARREDONDO: Wait minute, are, are you announcing she overdosed?
SGT. MATA: We originate now not know yet. … the first component is that this, Janet, is when we remark her household …They’re gonna mediate that both Joel … killed her or that you had one thing to originate with it, that is all now we decide to rule you out. OK. … Has Joel ever confided in you that he became, that he desired to originate one thing to his wife?
JANET ARREDONDO: No.
Pellot had instructed police Maria might perhaps even simply delight in overdosed on the drug clonazepam, but when the post-mortem became performed — eight hours after Maria became declared dumb — the health worker chanced on no tablet residue in her abdomen. There was one thing on Maria’s body at the scene that puzzled each the health worker and investigators: a miniature designate on Maria’s ethical arm.
What investigators chanced on particularly suspicious became a pinprick designate on Maria Muñoz’s ethical elbow crease, the kind someone would receive after getting an IV.
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Sgt. Luis Mata: It became rather, dinky sever — extra or much less adore every time you, the fashioned person … has their blood checked when they trail to the physician. One dinky dot.
Erin Moriarty: That’s it.
Sgt. Luis Mata: On her ethical elbow crease.
Erin Moriarty: No assorted signs of drug spend or one thing adore that?
Sgt. Luis Mata: Nothing, Nothing.
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: Nothing.
The post-mortem sage states Maria died from a combined drug intoxication. Whereas the health worker couldn’t scream how the capsules bought in her blueprint, she did rule out suicide after talking to Maria’s company and discovering out her journal.
On the day sooner than she died, Maria wrote:
What’s it that I need?
#1 Skedaddle Forward!!
So, might perhaps even Maria’s death were an accidental overdose? Or became it ruin? When Dr. John Huntsinger, an anesthesiologist and Pellot’s mature boss, heard the post-mortem outcomes, he instantly became suspicious.
Dr. John Huntsinger: I known as Detective Mata, and I instructed him my concerns.
He urged Mata to repeat an intensive toxicology screening to hunt down out which capsules had killed Maria and the way they bought there.
SGT. MATA (police interview): Did you inject her … tonight?
JOEL PELLOT: No.
SGT. MATA: With one thing?
JOEL PELLOT: No.
Authorities would decide to wait near to four months to receive the answers they foremost.
Private investigator near me: SUSPICIONS CONTINUE TO GROW AGAINST JOEL PELLOT
On a Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church in Laredo, a successfully-organized crowd of household and company came to mourn Maria Muñoz, including her estranged husband, Joel Pellot.
CHURCH SERVICE: The victorious lifestyles is — shall be a lifestyles of carrier. … All of our lives had been impacted by the treasured lifestyles of Maria.
Yazmin Martinez: Her funeral became in actuality unhappy … Joel became there and he became crying. He gave the impact very upset, very unhappy.
To Maria’s friend Yazmin Martinez, he gave the impact rather too upset, too unhappy.
Yazmin Martinez: What made me feel offended … became him come the casket … crying over her, giving her kisses. Admire why now? You will delight in made her undergo and bawl loads and you are doing this now?
Joel Pellot’s show of effort did nothing to deter the investigation into his wife’s death.
Sergeant Luis Mata and Officer Gregorio De La Cruz scream that photos captured by the bodycam on the morning Maria died shows one thing weird and wonderful. Consider the capsules in a container that Pellot acknowledged his wife had taken? De La Cruz tossed it aside when he became giving Maria CPR.
OFFICER DE LA CRUZ (bodycam video): He had a prescription drug, the build aside is it?
At some level it disappeared.
Erin Moriarty (staring at the bodycam video): I stumble on or now not it is peaceable here ethical now.
Sgt. Luis Mata: It is peaceable there exactly.
And here is how it came about. They scream Pellot grabs the tablet container and puts it in his pocket.
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz (staring at the bodycam video): He factual reached over and … establish it ethical succor in the shirt.
Officer Gregorio De La Cruz: If that is in actuality what she took, why would you wish to camouflage that?
A needle catheter, the kind faded for IVs, became chanced on on the staircase.
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They had been also suspicious of that needle catheter, the kind faded for IVs, chanced on at the scene. Consider, Maria had a miniature designate on her ethical arm. Mata shared his concerns with the Webb County District Attorney’s Insist of job.
Marisela Jacaman: We delight in a 24/7 cell phone … and legislation enforcement can contact us with any questions.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Marisela Jacaman and District Attorney Isidro Alaniz knew the case shall be tricky to show since even the health worker wasn’t decided exactly how Maria died.
Erin Moriarty: The health worker is announcing, I will be able to’t scream for a reality here’s homicide.
Isidro Alaniz: I endure in suggestions having this dialog with the health worker early on … and I endure in suggestions her announcing stumble on, I wasn’t there, and neither had been you. All all people knows is that she has this combination of abominable capsules in her bloodstream … we originate now not know who gave them to her, if she had some in her blueprint already, if she took some afterward.
Erin Moriarty: Either accident or ruin.
Isidro Alaniz: Accident or ruin.
Investigators started to demand Maria’s company and chanced on that the Saturday sooner than Maria died, there became a disagreement at Janet Arredondo’s rental when Maria saw Pellot’s automobile there.
Doorbell digicam video of Maria Muñoz outdoor Janet Arredondo’s rental.
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Angela Montoya: So, that is when she stepped out of the automobile after which she rang the doorbell.
Per Montoya, Maria, seen on Janet’s doorbell digicam, gave Pellot an ultimatum.
Angela Montoya: “Operate you delight in chose her, or you delight in chose me?: After which he says … “I resolve Janet.”
Arredondo known as police, and when a responding officer arrived at her residence, he known as Maria who had by then had left with Pellot. When Maria answered her cell phone, the officer’s bodycam recorded the sound of Joel berating her in the background:
JOEL PELLOT (cell phone video with Maria in the automobile): Hi there, I’m f—— talking to you ethical now. Grasp up the f—— cell phone.
RESPONDING POLICE OFFICER: I assume that is your boyfriend.
JANET ARREDONDO: Yeah.
Per Montoya, Maria instructed her that Pellot became violent.
Angela Montoya: And he bought so pissed off with all the pieces that he punched the windshield.
Erin Moriarty: He broke it —-didn’t he?
Angela Montoya: He broke it, positive, he broke it.
On Sunday morning, Maria texted her husband about hiring a divorce criminal educated, and he answered:
JOEL PELLOT TEXT: We can originate this with minimal criminal educated intervention. It is too a lot money.
Pellot then looks to thrill in had a alternate of coronary heart, and sends Maria this email:
JOEL PELLOT EMAIL: I’m so unhappy I’m hurting within…
I are attempting to take a seat down down down with you to talk, w/o arguing. A coronary heart to coronary heart.
They agreed to meet Monday evening. Before Pellot arrived, Maria messaged her friend Yazmin Martinez to hope for her:
… I factual query whenever you must maybe perhaps perhaps pray for me … tonight we will talk …
Yazmin Martinez: After which I answered her … And I instructed her that I’d pray for her.
Maria’s query for prayers that evening shall be her closing message to Martinez. Maria died early Tuesday morning.
Almost about four months after Maria’s death – Sergeant Mata and Officer De La Cruz finally receive the toxicology take a look at outcomes they’d been staring at for.
Sgt. Luis Mata: Zero clonazepam.
Joel Pellot had instructed police Maria Muñoz might perhaps even simply delight in overdosed on the drug clonazepam, but when the post-mortem became performed — eight hours after she became declared dumb — the health worker chanced on no tablet residue in her abdomen.
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Zero clonazepam — the drug Pellot claimed Maria had taken. As an alternative, the toxicology sage printed seven assorted capsules in Maria’s blueprint.
Sgt. Luis Mata: So, definite for morphine, Demerol, Versed, propofol — ketamine, lidocaine, Narcan.
These sort of medications are most incessantly faded all over surgical blueprint and no doubt one of them can handiest be administered with an IV.
Erin Moriarty: What became your response?
Sgt. Luis Mata: He killed her. This guy killed his wife.
Authorities bought a warrant, Officer De La Cruz, who had tried to construct Maria’s lifestyles, returned to Pellot’s residence to form the arrest.
Officer Gregorio De Laz Cruz: He knew why we had been there.
Sgt. Luis Mata: By the level we knock on the door, and we scream our presence … factual adore the way you originate in the films, he comes out. “I’m here. I’m here.” Establish’s his hands gradual his succor. Let us cuff him. Would now not establish up a fight.
JOEL PELLOT: It is most likely you’ll maybe even call my, uh, my criminal educated.
OFFICER De La Cruz: Oh, you must maybe perhaps perhaps call them.
Pellot became taken to the police repute and booked. Prosecutors maintain he became the one who gave his wife the lethal combination — but can they show he wanted her to die?
Private investigator near me: DEATH BY PROPOFOL?
When Joel Pellot’s mature boss, anesthesiologist Dr. John Huntsinger saw the list of tools chanced on in Maria Muñoz – seven assorted medications — he became vastly very a lot surprised by one drug particularly.
Dr. John Huntsinger: I became very nervous to stumble on propofol.
Erin Moriarty: The build aside would he receive that propofol? That you can now not factual trail to the drug retailer to receive propofol?
Dr. John Huntsinger: You will decide to receive it from a clinic.
Whereas many of the capsules chanced on in Maria’s blueprint will seemingly be consumed by mouth, Propofol is most incessantly injected by someone else with an IV.
John Huntsinger: Understanding to be one of many issues about propofol … it relaxes you vastly … but it would now not final very prolonged. … it makes you halt breathing whenever you must maybe perhaps perhaps also simply delight in too a lot.
Erin Moriarty: I mediate most of us, when we hear about Propofol, we mediate of Michael Jackson.
Dr. John Huntsinger: Lawful.
Singer Michael Jackson’s death in June 2009 became blamed, in fragment, on an accidental overdose of Propofol. And after Maria Muñoz’s death, a extremely elevated stage of the drug became chanced on in her blueprint.
Dr. John Huntsinger: Hers became the supreme stage I’ve seen.
Erin Moriarty: And what does that scream to you?
Dr. John Huntsinger: I maintain this became death by Propofol.
With Joel Pellot now below arrest, authorities had been ecstatic that Pellot’s lady friend Janet Arredondo knew larger than what she shared in that first interview.
Arredondo agreed to a second police interview and, accompanied by attorneys, she now gave the impact willing to talk.
SGT. MATA (second police interview): Did Joel ever ship residence any medical capsules?
JANET ARREDONDO: Yes.
Arredondo instructed police that Pellot had most incessantly brought capsules to her residence – some for his comprise recreational spend — including ketamine, morphine, lidocaine, fentanyl and extra.
JANET ARREDONDO: Versed
LUIS MATA: OK.
JANET ARREDONDO: Propofol.
SGT. MATA: Propofol?
Arredondo’s records about propofol kicked the case into high tools. District Attorney Isidro Alaniz chosen a crew of attorneys – Katrina Rios, Ana Karen Garza, Cristal Calderon and led by Marisela Jacaman.
From left, prosecutors Karina Rios, Ana Karen Garza, Marisela Jacaman and Cristal Calderon.
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Marisela Jacaman: We’re Maria’s crew.
So, they bought a search warrant for her residence. Then, they provided her a deal. In trade for extra records, Arredondo would receive immunity from prosecution.
All four prosecutors had been ecstatic that Maria’s husband had methodically deliberate her ruin, and that the devoted mother and wife had suffered in the months sooner than her death.
Marisela Jacaman: I’ve heard of emotional abuse, I’ve seen it, I’ve worked round it …
Marisela Jacaman: … but I by no way realized how prevalent it is a ways even in our lives the build aside you must maybe perhaps perhaps give away to one of the vital issues that Maria became experiencing.
Erin Moriarty: On the face of it, here’s a pair having issues, he’s having an affair, but to you, here’s domestic violence, how?
Karina Rios: Successfully, I mediate … it goes loads extra than factual being a necessary other … you must maybe perhaps perhaps also stumble on the energy fight that existed or the — the dearth thereof.
Assistant District Attorney Karina Rios.
Karina Rios: Maria had no energy in this relationship.
And the evidence of that, prosecutors scream, is chanced on in Maria’s comprise journals. Prosecutor Jacaman read a form of entries:
Life is so unfair.
My husband the person I love loads is inflicting me loads concern
Maria also left evidence on her cell phone that she secretly recorded roughly four months sooner than her death:
MARIA MUÑOZ (cell phone video in the automobile with Joel Pellot): I are attempting to know, what is it that you in actuality decide me to originate?
MARIA MUÑOZ (cell phone video in the automobile with Joel Pellot): What are the expectations you must maybe perhaps perhaps also simply delight in on this — this marriage?
Cellular phone video secretly recorded by Maria Muñoz shows her and Joel Pellot arguing in the automobile.
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Marisela Jacaman:She gave us this very vital video.
MARIA MUÑOZ (cell phone video in the automobile with Joel Pellot): You walk out that door, we’re getting a divorce.
JOEL PELLOT: Alright stunning, you bought it (slams automobile door)
Marisela Jacaman: She became having a dialogue … with him … and that became so painful to stumble on.
But prosecutors would need a lot larger than that video and Maria’s journal entries. How did they maintain that Joel Pellot dosed his wife with all those capsules?
Marisela Jacaman: That became the million-dollar demand. We saved announcing, how did he receive her to put up to this?
At some stage in Janet Arredondo’s second police interview, she acknowledged Pellot had instructed her referring to the evening Maria died: he had long gone there, he acknowledged, to thrill in that coronary heart-to-coronary heart talk after which injected her — to now not kill her, Pellot acknowledged, but to collected her down.
At some stage in her second interview with police, Janet Arredondo instructed Laredo Police Sgt. Luis Mata that Joel Pellot had most incessantly brought capsules to her residence – some for his comprise recreational spend — including ketamine, morphine, lidocaine, fentanyl and extra.
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SGT. LUIS MATA (second police interview): Why did he remark you that he injected her? On sage of she became erratic?
JANET ARREDONDO: Factual, he desired to uh, factual collected her down, so he did it with remedy.
But Investigators maintain the sedatives had been fragment of Pellot’s thought to kill Maria — that sooner than Pellot establish an IV needle in Maria’s arm, he might perhaps even delight in slipped several sedative capsules into her well-liked drink: coffee.
Marisela Jacaman: Ketamine, Versed, morphine and Demerol. Those four might perhaps even were establish in her coffee, she then passes out.
After that, they are saying, Pellot injected Maria with a lethal dose of propofol. Then-Chief Assistant District Attorney Ana Karen Garza Gutierrez says Pellot intentionally waited to call for help.
Ana Karen Garza: I maintain he waited unless she became dumb to call 911 to make positive that that that no-one can ship her succor.
SGT MATA (second police interview): Did you play any characteristic in Maria’s death at all? You?
JANET ARREDONDO: No.
Arredondoacknowledged Pellot did admit to her that he bought rid of one of the vital medical tools he faded to inject Maria sooner than first responders arrived.
JANET ARREDONDO: He factual instructed me he bought rid of them.
Pellot became out on bail, so prosecutors had him rearrested and along with ruin, he became charged with tampering with evidence. Again, he made bail and would wear an ankle monitor.
In March 2023, two-and-a-half of years after Maria Muñoz’s death, her husband went on trial for her ruin.
“forty eight Hours” made several interview requests to Joel Pellot’s defense crew, but by no way bought a response. Joel Pellot declined our query for an interview.
MARISELA JACAMAN (opening commentary in court docket): The evidence will issue that Joel Pellot had the motive, he had the intent, and he had kill Maria.
Prosecutors presented 15 witnesses to show to a jury that Pellot had moderately and intentionally chosen the capsules to kill Maria. Their massive title behold, Janet Arredondo, instructed the jury what she had shared with police.
MARISELA JACAMAN (in court docket): Did Mr. Pellot illustrate to you that he dumped or discarded the IV catheter and the vials?
JANET ARREDONDO: Yes.
When the defense case begins, Pellot’s lawyers admit their consumer injected his wife, but they are saying he wasn’t attempting to kill her, he became attempting to construct her.
Private investigator near me: ACCIDENT OR MURDER?
Joel Pellot, wearing a blue suit and a uncomfortable grey tie, listened moderately as his defense crew presented his case.
ROBERTO BALLI (in court docket): Now, Maria died and there might be now not any demand that Joel became there.
Protection criminal educated Roberto Balli claims Maria became terribly miserable and had been ingesting and abusing capsules for months.
ROBERTO BALLI (in court docket): When Joel arrived Maria became already on one thing…
Joel Pellot all over his trial for the ruin of his wife.
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Per the defense, Pellot didn’t intend to kill his wife and the proof, his attorneys scream, is in that toxicology sage. They admit Pellot gave his wife remedy to collected her down, after which when he chanced on her unconscious they are saying, he gave her Narcan, a drug faded to reverse an opioid overdose.
ROBERTO BALLI (in court docket): Any individual tried to ship her succor to lifestyles, and it wasn’t the paramedics, it wasn’t the police. It became Joel. So he didn’t need her dumb. This became a hideous accident.
A hideous accident, the defense argues, that became precipitated by a aggregate of in spite of Maria had taken and the remedy Pellot faded to inject her.
Erin Moriarty: How originate you perceive that Narcan wasn’t there on account of he tried to construct her, that he went too a ways, realized that he had long gone too a ways.
Ana Karen Garza Guiterrez: Narcan is now not a reversal agent for Propofol and Propofol became what stopped her coronary heart at the halt.
The defense by no way outlined to the jury how the propofol bought into Maria’s blueprint, but prosecutors scream that the stage of tools chanced on in Maria’s body might perhaps even now not were accidental.
Marisela Jacaman: It became sufficient remedy to continue to exist two major surgeries. It became loads.
Erin Moriarty: And why originate you mediate he gave her loads?
Marisela Jacaman: To ensure that.
Whereas Pellot himself didn’t testify, his emotional mother did. Miriam Carrasquillo instructed prosecutors, all over inappropriate examination, that Maria had talked about how unhappy she became about her marriage.
MARISELA JACAMAN (in court docket): Had been you mindful that Joel Pellot became seeing Janet, weren’t you?
MIRIAM CARRASQUILLO: Yes, she instructed me.
MARISELA JACAMAN: Who instructed you?
MIRIAM CARRASQUILLO: Maria.
MARISELA JACAMAN: And did you help her to quit in the marriage?
MIRIAM CARRASQUILLO: I instructed her that everybody delight in a restrict and he or she delight in a restrict. When she maintain that she originate now not are attempting to be no extra with him I in actuality delight in a rental open for her.
But prosecutors disclose as unhappy as Maria might perhaps even simply were about her marriage, there might be now not any evidence that she abused both capsules or alcohol.
They maintain Pellot’s motive became money and that he murdered Maria on account of he didn’t are attempting to pay for a divorce and split his sources.
After eight days of testimony, the jury bought the case. It took them decrease than an hour to maintain Joel Pellot’s destiny: responsible of murdering his wife Maria and tampering with the evidence.
Many people of the medical neighborhood attended the trial, including Pellot’s mature colleague, Tina Dores.
Tina Dores: He’s now not boring, I mean he’s a trim guy … so I originate now not know if he factual bought caught up along with his God complex that he thought he became smarter than all people and that he became going to outsmart them.
Factual hours after the responsible verdict, Pellot became sentenced to lifestyles in jail, cuffed and escorted out of the court.
Maria’s friend Angela Montoya.
Angela Montoya: She beloved him, and he or she adored him. She factual beloved him too a lot.
Prosecutors bought justice for Maria, but or now not it is a ways a tragic ending for the household she beloved and fought so exhausting to retain collectively.
Karina Rios: I mediate on occasion the worst accidents originate now not even leave a designate … the accidents on your coronary heart, on your suggestions. We might perhaps even by no way stumble on those on Maria, but she instructed us about them … but she carried quite a lot of scars with her from this relationship.
Maria’s crew scream the largest behold at trial ended up being Maria herself, and that her journals confirmed those scars had been therapeutic.
” I desire a lifestyles that is mine, assorted and uncommon. A lifestyles that is balanced with every emotion, but a pleased beautiful lifestyles,” Maria Muñoz wrote in no doubt one of her journals.
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Ana Karen Garza: She became an phenomenal soul.
Marisela Jacaman: And he or she became a enormous mother. She became factual an improbable person. And that energy? We felt it.
The couple’s kids live with Joel Pellot’s mother.
Produced by Marcelena Spencer. Iris Carreras is the realm producer. Marlon Disla, Michael Vele and Phil Tangel are the editors. Elizabeth Caholo is the improvement producer. Lourdes Aguiar is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the government sage editor. Judy Tygard is the government producer.
Combs, who is the subject of a federal investigation and numerous civil lawsuits, said in a video statement on his Instagram page that his “behavior on that video is inexcusable.”
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that. I was f—ed up — I mean, I hit rock bottom — but I make no excuses,” Combs said. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
He said that after that incident, he “got into going to therapy and rehab.”
“I’m so sorry,” Combs said. “But I’m committed to be a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
Cassie, 37, whose name is Casandra Ventura, alleged in a federal lawsuit in November that Combs raped and physically abused her, including punching, beating, kicking and stomping her, over the course of their relationship. Her suit included details of being assaulted by Combs in a hotel, which appeared to be supported by the video CNN released Friday.
Combs had denied the allegations by his former partner, calling them sickening. He also said the settlement, which was announced one day after the suit was filed, was in “no way” an admission of wrongdoing.
Meredith Firetog, an attorney for Cassie, said in a statement Sunday that Combs’ apology video was “more about himself than the many people he has hurt.”
“When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday,” Firetog said. “That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
According to CNN, the video was captured in a hotel hallway in March 2016 and offers multiple angles of the incident, which begins when a woman in a hooded sweatshirt walks to the elevator with a bag in her hands. It then shows a man, whom CNN identified as Combs, running down the hall in a towel with no shirt on.
He walks up behind a woman near an elevator, grabs her and throws her to the ground. The man appears to kick her twice. He then begins dragging her by her sweatshirt while she is on the ground.
Moments later, he sits in a chair before he appears to pick up an object and throw it. The video does not have audio.
Douglas Wigdor, an attorney for Cassie, said Friday that the video “has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs. Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Saturday that it was aware of the “disturbing and difficult to watch” video. Because the incident is outside the statute of limitations for assault, the prosecutor said it “would be unable to charge” anyone in connection with it.
“As of today, law enforcement has not presented a case related to the attack depicted in the video against Mr. Combs,” the statement said.
Combs is the subject of a federal inquiry, and by agents with Homeland Security Investigations raided his properties in California and Florida in March. The agents executed search warrants from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and seized his phones in Miami before he was scheduled to depart for a trip to the Bahamas.
Since Cassie came forward with her claims last year, five lawsuits have accused Combs of sexual assault, sexual trafficking and engaging in other criminal activity.
Combs has denied all of the allegations and has filed paperwork in court seeking to dismiss a Jane Doe lawsuit and partly dismiss another woman’s suit.
One of his attorneys, Aaron Dyer, also said in a statement after the federal raid in March that Combs was innocent. He described the raid as an ambush, saying there has been a rush to judgment based on “meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”
“There has been no finding of criminal or civil liability with any of these allegations,” Dyer said.
