Sean “Diddy” Combs was once more denied bail in his intercourse trafficking case Wednesday — his third failed bid to get sprung from a Brooklyn lockup forward of Thanksgiving.
Manhattan federal courtroom Choose Arun Subramanian slapped down the disgraced music mogul’s newest request, saying in a ruling, “The Courtroom finds that the federal government has proven by clear and convincing proof that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the protection of the group.”
Combs, who’s been cooling his heels behind bars since his September arrest, requested to be launched on $50 million bond, together with dwelling confinement with 24/7 safety.
Prosecutors efficiently argued, nonetheless, that he couldn’t be trusted — saying he’s already tried to intervene with their ongoing probe by contacting potential witnesses from the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn.
Subramanian agreed, saying “there’s proof supporting a critical threat of witness tampering.”
He additionally referenced the disturbing 2016 video exhibiting Combs beating up his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a resort hallway, as “direct proof of Combs’ violence.”
The fallen rapper was final in courtroom on Friday and blew kisses to his kin.
Combs is charged in a sweeping racketeering and intercourse trafficking indictment with abusing girls and forcing them to interact in “Freak Off” performances to meet his sick “sexual wishes.” He would watch and masturbate in the course of the “elaborate and produced intercourse performances,” and allegedly filmed them to make use of as leverage in opposition to his victims, the indictment says.
Combs has additionally tried repeatedly to “impede justice,” the feds argued, together with by allegedly attempting to bribe a resort safety officer to cowl up the assault on Ventura.
“It strains credulity to imagine that Combs will cease partaking in legal conduct and abide by circumstances of launch,” prosecutors stated in a courtroom submitting earlier this month.
The feds additionally argued that releasing Combs would let the rich music mogul purchase his manner out of custody by “paying for a personal jail” — amounting to “two-tiered” system of justice which is barred by federal bail guidelines.
Combs’ attorneys had argued that the setup on the thriller Higher East Facet condominium — whose tackle they redacted in courtroom filings — can be safe sufficient to make sure that Combs gained’t tamper with witnesses.
Combs is not going to have entry to a cellphone as a part of the bond package deal, the attorneys claimed in courtroom papers. A member of the safety element will dangle on to his telephone and hold a written log of all outgoing and incoming texts and calls, the attorneys wrote.
“There is no such thing as a reliable authorized foundation for persevering with to power Mr. Combs to organize for trial
from jail,” one among his attorneys, Alexandra Shapiro, wrote to the courtroom, including that the feds haven’t proven that “the extraordinarily restrictive proposed circumstances are inadequate to stop any doable hazard or obstruction.”
Prosecutors had countered that no safety staff can be able to stopping Combs from breaking phrases of his launch.
“The defendant, merely put, can’t be trusted,” prosecutor Christine Slavik stated throughout a Nov. 22 courtroom listening to.
The choice by Subramanian comes after two different federal judges beforehand declined to grant Combs bail.
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