Sean “Diddy” Combs’ on Wednesday accused the feds of leaking the explosive 2016 footage that confirmed the disgraced hip hop mogul brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a lodge hallway.
Combs’ authorized camp claimed in a brand new submitting that Division of Homeland Safety brokers undermined the Unhealthy Boy Information founder for seven months main as much as his bombshell indictment on intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices – and is asking on a choose to take motion.
The footage of Combs – who had a towel wrapped round his waist — attacking Ventura contained in the InterContinental Lodge in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles was obtained by CNN in Might, sparking uproar towards the music star.
Protection legal professionals Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos alleged the federal government was the one entity that might have been the supply of the damning disclosure.
“The videotape was leaked to CNN for one cause alone: to mortally wound the repute and the prospect of Sean Combs efficiently defending himself towards these allegations,” they wrote.
Ventura sued Combs final November earlier than the pair settled a day later.
Combs is going through accusations he used his document label as a “felony enterprise” for greater than a decade whereas abusing ladies and bullying witnesses to cowl up alleged crimes.
He’s pleaded not responsible to all prices. Combs is presently in federal detention, however his legal professionals are additionally preventing to get him out of jail main as much as his high-profile trial.
Combs’ authorized staff cautioned it was blaming DHS for the alleged leaks and was not pointing the finger on the Manhattan US Legal professional’s Workplace.
Federal authorities additionally allegedly supplied information retailers with false and prejudicial statements, and illegally disseminated grand jury data, together with the 2016 videotape, his legal professionals contended.
Combs’ legal professionals additionally complained within the new submitting that DHS brokers “engaged in a very brutal and public search of Mr. Combs houses” that included slapping handcuffs on two of his sons in entrance of the press.
The raid on Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami obtained widespread media consideration in March and turned up troves of proof towards the “I’ll Be Lacking You” singer.
Agnifilo and Geragos needs the federal court docket to set an evidentiary listening to over the alleged misconduct and make sure that authorities attorneys and brokers received’t expose additional data to the press.
Relying on what an evidentiary listening to turns up, the legal professionals known as on the court docket to probably suppress proof, together with the 2016 tape, and even dismiss the case, in response to the authorized briefing.
The strategy by Combs’ legal professionals on Wednesday adopted the same motion New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams took, wherein he accused the feds of additionally leaking grand jury materials in his felony case.
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