Sean “Diddy” Combs demands info on how feds got jail cell notes amid witness tampering allegations

Amid caller allegations that Sean “Diddy” Combs is managing a PR run from down bars intended to intimidate witnesses and power jurors, lawyers for the embattled hip-hop mogul connected Monday demanded a proceeding into however national authorities obtained his paperwork Brooklyn MDC.

In arguments opposing Combs’ latest petition to beryllium released connected a $50 cardinal bond, the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s bureau connected Friday alerted the judge that they had uncovered grounds helium was tasking household members and associates with contacting imaginable witnesses and had asked them to marque nationalist statements intended to change the public’s cognition of his case, further arguing his “long past of unit demonstrates his dangerousness.”

“[While] attempting to evade instrumentality enforcement monitoring, the suspect has, among different things, orchestrated societal media campaigns that are, successful his ain words, aimed astatine tainting the assemblage pool; made efforts to publically leak materials helium views arsenic adjuvant to his case; and contacted witnesses done 3rd parties,” prosecutors wrote Friday.

In 1 mostly-redacted enactment from Friday’s filing, the prosecution said it was wide Combs’ “goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into soundlessness oregon providing grounds adjuvant to his defense.”

An FBI motortruck is parked extracurricular the Metropolitan Detention Center. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Combs’ lawyers on Monday greeting told the court they learned astatine 11:29 p.m. connected Friday that his notes were taken from his jailhouse compartment astatine Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and fixed to the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.

“We petition an contiguous proceeding astatine which the Government shall supply answers to the pursuing questions: First, who authorized a hunt of Mr. Combs’ sleeping area, idiosyncratic effects and paperwork? Second, who determined what paperwork to take? Third, who decided to springiness this paperwork to the United States Attorney’s Office? Fourth, who decided to springiness this paperwork to the proceedings prosecutors?” Combs’ lawyers Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos and Anthony Ricco wrote Monday.

“Fifth, who made the determination to not archer Mr. Combs’ counsel that the U.S. Attorney was successful possession of his notes, including ‘possibly privileged materials’ until aft the Government enactment them successful a filing to support him incarcerated? Sixth, precisely what worldly was taken?”

Combs, 55, has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking, and interstate proscription to prosecute successful prostitution that allege that for years, helium utilized his concern empire to facilitate the intersexual maltreatment and coercion of women helium forced to enactment successful convulsive intersexual performances called “freak offs.”

The feds accidental Combs often directed and videotaped the performances and drugged his victims into compliance and that helium and associates engaged successful forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.

Two national judges person determined Combs poses excessively galore risks to beryllium released. He’s expected to look successful tribunal this week for different bail hearing.

The Manhattan U.S. attorney’s bureau and Combs’ lawyers did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Monday.