Sean “Diddy” Combs will stay behind bars till his Might 2025 intercourse trafficking trial. The protection’s third try to free the 54-year-old music mogul was denied on Wednesday. It has been an eventful two weeks within the federal case in opposition to the Unhealthy Boy Data founder.
U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian agreed that the federal government offered “clear and convincing proof” that “that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the security of the group” if he had been to be launched. The choose cited the “nature and circumstances of the offense charged,” the “weight of the proof” in opposition to the music mogul,” Combs’s “historical past and traits” and “nature and seriousness of the hazard that might be posed by the individual’s launch.”
Combs was denied bail twice earlier than: Combs’s attorneys then proposed an in depth $50 million package deal in hopes of releasing their shopper. The most recent supply included house confinement with GPS monitoring at a New York Metropolis residence, an accredited checklist of friends — with reportedly no feminine guests allowed aside from members of the family — and 24/7 monitoring of Combs by personal safety. The federal government strongly opposed this because it has accused Combs of witness tampering, even behind bars, and imagine he is a hazard to others.
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In his written resolution, Subramanian cited expenses set forth within the federal indictment in opposition to Combs. For many years, Combs allegedly “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to meet his sexual wishes, defend his popularity, and conceal his conduct. To take action, [Combs] relied on the workers, sources, and affect of the multi-faceted enterprise empire that he led and managed—making a felony enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and tried to interact in, amongst different crimes, intercourse trafficking, pressured labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to all expenses.
Subramanian additionally wrote “there’s compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence” as he referenced the 2016 video footage of the rapper showing to beat ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs publicly apologized after a resort surveillance video of the incident was leaked earlier this 12 months.
The choose has but to rule on Combs’s jailhouse notes, which had been the topic of a heated listening to final week. Prosecutors gained entry to them after an Oct. 28 sweep of the Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) in Brooklyn, N.Y. The federal government claimed it confirmed that the entrepreneur was making an attempt to repay witnesses from jail. Combs’s protection workforce argued that the notes seen had been “attorney-client privileged materials” they included within the protection’s authorized technique.
Subramanian stated on the Nov. 19 listening to that he’d assessment whether or not the notes contained privileged data, which might take weeks, however that he wouldn’t take the notes into consideration when ruling on the difficulty of bail. Nevertheless, he had some questions for the protection on the Nov. 22 listening to about if the protection retroactively wrote “authorized” on the notes in query. The protection workforce stated it was making an attempt to unravel when “authorized” was written on among the notes, based on the Inside Metropolis Press.
Combs staying behind bars is no surprise. Authorized consultants beforehand informed Yahoo Leisure that it was seemingly the choose would uphold the prior rulings as circumstances haven’t drastically modified.
On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested by federal brokers at a Manhattan resort and charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. He faces a flurry of civil sexual assault lawsuits as effectively however has maintained his innocence.
