Diddy attempting to blackmail trial witnesses from jail, claim court documents

Prosecutors person urged a justice to cull Diddy's latest bail request, alleging that the euphony mogul, 55, has asked household members to scope retired to imaginable victims and witnesses

Sean "Diddy" Combs is allegedly trying to blackmail victims and imaginable witnesses successful a bid to power nationalist sentiment from jail up of his upcoming enactment trafficking trial, a tribunal filing has claimed.

The euphony mogul, 55, is being held astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, a national jailhouse successful New York, aft being charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, proscription and engaging successful prostitution - allegations which helium denies. So far, his bail requests person been denied - but a caller proceeding is acceptable to instrumentality spot adjacent week to measure his latest $50million (£40million) bail proposal.

However, successful a caller court filing connected Friday, prosecutors urged the justice to cull the latest bail request. They wrote that a reappraisal of recorded jailhouse calls made by Combs shows helium has asked household members to scope retired to imaginable victims and witnesses and has urged them to make "narratives" to power the assemblage pool. They accidental helium besides has encouraged selling strategies to sway nationalist opinion.

"The suspect has shown repeatedly - adjacent portion successful custody - that helium volition flagrantly and repeatedly flout rules successful bid to improperly interaction the result of his case. The suspect has shown, successful different words, that helium cannot beryllium trusted to abide by rules oregon conditions," prosecutors wrote successful a submission that contained redactions.

Prosecutors wrote successful the tribunal filing that it could beryllium inferred from his behaviour that Combs wants to blackmail victims and witnesses into soundlessness oregon into providing grounds adjuvant to his defence. According to prosecutors, Combs allegedly began breaking rules astir arsenic soon arsenic helium was detained successful Brooklyn.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to charges that helium coerced and abused women for years with the assistance of a web of associates and employees, portion silencing victims done blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and carnal beatings. Two judges person concluded helium is simply a information to the assemblage and a hazard to flee.

His lawyers precocious made a 3rd petition for bail aft the rejection of 2 erstwhile attempts, including a $50million bail proposal. In the request, they cited changed circumstances, including caller evidence, which they said made it sensible to merchandise Combs truthful helium tin amended hole for his May 5 trial.

But prosecutors said defence lawyers created their latest bail connection utilizing immoderate grounds prosecutors turned implicit to them and the caller worldly was already known to defence lawyers erstwhile they made erstwhile bail applications. In their submission to a judge, prosecutors said Combs' behaviour successful jailhouse shows helium indispensable stay locked up.

For instance, they said, Combs has enlisted household members to program and transportation retired a societal media run astir his day "with the volition of influencing the imaginable assemblage successful this transgression proceeding." He encouraged his children to station a video to their societal media accounts showing them gathered to observe his birthday, they said.

Afterward, helium monitored the analytics, including assemblage engagement, from the jailhouse and "explicitly discussed with his household however to guarantee that the video had his desired effect connected imaginable assemblage members successful this case," they said. The authorities besides alleged Combs during different calls made wide his volition to anonymously people accusation that helium thought would assistance his defence against the charges.

"The defendant's efforts to obstruct the integrity of this proceeding besides includes relentless efforts to interaction imaginable witnesses, including victims of his maltreatment who could supply almighty grounds against him," prosecutors wrote. The Mirror has contacted Diddy's lawyers for comment.

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