Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs denied bail for a third time

Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied bail erstwhile again Wednesday aft a third contentious hearing connected his imaginable pre-trial release.

Judge Arun Subramanian became the 3rd Manhattan national justice to trash the hip-hop mogul’s assorted attempts to beryllium released from Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center.

While down bars, Combs, 55, has attempted to interaction imaginable witnesses and skirted national situation rules, according to investigators. The archetypal charges against him besides allege helium has intimidated witnesses and victims into silence.

Subramanian determined that Combs’ untrustworthy nature made it intolerable to guarantee the information of the assemblage if helium was released connected bail.

“Given the quality of the allegations successful this lawsuit and the accusation provided by the government, the Court doubts the sufficiency of immoderate conditions that spot place successful Combs and individuals successful his employ,” the judge wrote successful his decision.

Combs’ defence squad had projected a caller $50 cardinal bail bundle that included a backstage information item and Combs’ confinement successful an Upper East Side apartment. His lawyers claimed it could beryllium adjacent much unafraid than his detention successful Brooklyn MDC due to the fact that helium wouldn’t person entree to contraband cellphones.

But prosecutors argued for Combs to stay down bars, contempt subpar conditions astatine the lockup. They said helium was attempting to manipulate his lawsuit from prison by contacting his galore associates and directing PR campaigns from his cell.

“He’s committed to concealing his crimes by immoderate means necessary,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik told the tribunal astatine Friday’s detention hearing.

In the latest hearing, Combs’ defence lawyers attempted to discredit the infamous video of Combs attacking his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura successful a edifice hallway. The proceeding besides centered connected notepads seized from Combs’ cell, which were taxable to a statement implicit attorney-client privilege.

Combs’ squad antecedently claimed the notepads said “legal” erstwhile the feds seized them, but photographs showed that was not the case. Subramanian said the mendacious practice represented different illustration of Combs’ deficiency of honesty.

Two different judges astatine Manhattan Federal Court had already denied Combs’ projected bail packages aft his apprehension by the feds successful September. He was subsequently indicted connected federal enactment trafficking and racketeering charges and ordered held without bail.

The indictment against Combs accuses him of pressuring radical to stay soundless aft witnessing crimes. The feds said Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others astir him to fulfill his intersexual desires, support his estimation and conceal his conduct.”

Combs and others “engaged in, and attempted to prosecute in, among different crimes, enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice,” investigators continued.

Following Wednesday’s ruling, Combs is reportedly acceptable for a Thanksgiving dinner of peanut food and jelly sandwiches, chips and fruit.

With Molly Crane-Newman