Sean “Diddy” Combs will stay behind bars till his Could 2025 intercourse trafficking trial. The protection’s third try and free the 54-year-old music mogul was denied on Wednesday. It has been an eventful two weeks within the federal case towards the Unhealthy Boy Information founder.
U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian agreed that the federal government offered “clear and convincing proof” that “that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the protection of the neighborhood” if he have been to be launched. The choose cited the “nature and circumstances of the offense charged,” the “weight of the proof” towards the music mogul,” Combs’s “historical past and traits” and “nature and seriousness of the hazard that might be posed by the particular person’s launch.”
Combs was denied bail twice earlier than: Combs’s legal professionals then proposed an in depth $50 million package deal in hopes of liberating their consumer. The most recent provide included dwelling confinement with GPS monitoring at a New York Metropolis condominium, an authorized listing of company — with reportedly no feminine guests allowed apart from members of the family — and 24/7 monitoring of Combs by non-public 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 determination, Subramanian cited prices set forth within the federal indictment towards Combs. For many years, Combs allegedly “abused, threatened, and coerced ladies and others round him to satisfy his sexual wishes, shield his popularity, and conceal his conduct. To take action, [Combs] relied on the workers, assets, and affect of the multi-faceted enterprise empire that he led and managed—making a prison 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 prices.
Subramanian additionally wrote “there may be 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 yr.
The choose has but to rule on Combs’s jailhouse notes, which have 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 group argued that the notes considered have been “attorney-client privileged materials” they included within the protection’s authorized technique.
Subramanian stated on the Nov. 19 listening to that he’d overview whether or not the notes contained privileged data, which may take weeks, however that he wouldn’t take the notes into consideration when ruling on the difficulty of bail. Nonetheless, 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 group stated it was making an attempt to resolve when “authorized” was written on a number of the notes, in line with the Internal Metropolis Press.
Combs staying behind bars isn’t surprising. Authorized specialists beforehand informed Yahoo Leisure that it was probably 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 nicely however has maintained his innocence.
