Moses "Shyne" Barrow recalled how Sean "Diddy" Combs forever changed the trajectory of his life after a 1999 New York nightclub shooting.

Shyne, a former Bad Boy rapper and current politician in Belize, discussed his history with the fallen music mogul after Diddy's arrest and subsequent criminal charges for racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking as the alleged ringleader of a criminal enterprise.

"When I was an 18-year-old kid, just wanting to do nothing other than make my mother proud and make Belize proud and be recognized for my talent and take over the world," Barrow said during a press conference Wednesday. 

"I was defending him, and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me. He pretty much sent me to prison.

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"I forgave. I moved on. But let us not pretend as if I was in Miami for Thanksgiving and Christmas."

Shyne, who now serves as the Leader of the Opposition in the Belize House of Representatives, was a rising star in the hip-hop world when he signed with Bad Boy Records in 1998. One year later, Shyne joined Diddy and his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, at the now defunct Club New York in Times Square when gunfire broke out.

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During the scuffle, three people were injured, including a woman who was shot in the face. Lopez, Combs and his bodyguard, Anthony "Wolf" Jones, fled in his Lincoln and were later pulled over by the NYPD for running a red light.

A gun was found in the vehicle, and Lopez and Diddy were arrested. Lopez was let go, but Diddy, Jones and Shyne were each charged with multiple offenses. Diddy and Jones were both found not guilty at trial, while Shyne was convicted on five of eight counts and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Upon release, Shyne was deported to Belize.

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Since the incident, Shyne chose to forgive the "Victory" rapper and appeared on stage in London for a surprise performance with the Bad Boy Records founder in 2023.

"Let’s not lose sight of what the cold hard facts are," Shyne insisted. "This is not someone who I vacationed with and someone who I enjoyed this great, intimate relationship of brotherhood.

"This is someone who destroyed my life, and who I forgave, and who I moved on, and for the better interest of Belize because he was in the position at that time to give scholarships and maybe to invest. I would not deny attempting to bring the investment to Belize and contribution to education in Belize.

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"Do I take any joy with what he is going through? Absolutely not. I am different than other people. No one needs to fail for me to succeed."

Diddy, 54, was charged Tuesday with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars and a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty.

He appeared in Manhattan federal court Tuesday, where he pleaded not guilty. Not only was Combs denied a proposed $50 million bail, he was sent to jail immediately after the hearing.

A former Border Patrol sector chief told lawmakers that he was blocked from informing the public about migrants who may be potential terror threats, as he says the Biden administration wanted to downplay the threat.

"In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens [SIAs]. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism," former San Diego Sector Chief Patrol official Aaron Heitke told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee.

"Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10-15 SIAs per year. Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, way over 100 SIAs in 2023 and more than that this year," he warned. "These are only the ones we caught."

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Heitke says he was told he couldn’t release information about that increase.

"At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests. The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border," he said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment on Heitke’s remarks.

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The remarks came as part of a House Homeland Security Committee hearing called "A Country Without Borders: How Biden-Harris’ Open-Borders Policies Have Undermined Our Safety and Security." 

Immigration is a top 2024 election issue, and Republicans have blamed Biden administration policies and the rolling back of Trump-era policies for the crisis.

"As we continue to witness Biden and Harris’ resistance to doing anything meaningful about this disaster, we have to ask — why? Why did they let this crisis take place and why have they let it continue," Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., told the committee.

Heitke also told the committee that he would release illegal aliens "by the hundreds" each day, and flights were provided to send migrants from San Diego to Texas, at approximately $150,000 per flight. He also testified that he had to shut down San Diego traffic checkpoints to divert resources to the border, and that those checkpoints are crucial for the interdiction of drugs like fentanyl.

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Democrats and the administration have accused Republicans of failing to back funding and reform bills — including a bipartisan Senate bill released this year — and say that recent moves by the administration are working to bring down border encounters and secure the border.

"While you probably won't hear it from those on the other side, border encounters are at their lowest level in years since the president's proclamation on June 4, and encounters along the border and ports of entry have decreased by 55%, with Border Patrol recording the lowest number of border encounters since September 2020," ranking member Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said at the hearing.