Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs set to appear in NYC court in push to get out of jail, set trial date on sex trafficking charges

Sean “Diddy” Combs is owed to look successful Manhattan national tribunal Thursday for a pretrial league in his enactment trafficking and racketeering case arsenic helium pushes to get retired of jailhouse and spell connected proceedings by adjacent spring.

Combs’ lawyers are expected to inquire a justice to acceptable a proceedings day for adjacent April oregon May and grow connected their allegations that the authorities leaked wide watched, explosive CCTV footage depicting him assaulting Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, his erstwhile partner, with whom helium yet settled a suit for a reported $30 million.

In filings Wednesday, Combs’ lawyers accused the Department of Homeland Security of being down the leak to CNN, taking a leafage retired of the defence playbook of Mayor Adams, who past week accused national prosecutors of leaking expansive assemblage accusation to the property successful his bribery case.

“We bash not contend that the leaks were orchestrated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Rather, we contend that the mendacious media statements and the expansive assemblage leaks complained of beneath were planned and executed by DHS,” Combs’ lawyers wrote successful their Wednesday nighttime question for an evidentiary hearing.

“The crushed a proceeding is needed is to find precisely what the DHS did, and did not bash regarding these leaks, and what the U.S. Attorney’s Office did and did not bash to halt them,” they said.

Following his Sept. 16 arrest, Combs has been down bars astatine Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. In written arguments to the Second Circuit national appeals tribunal this week, his attorneys challenged a judge’s determination to incarcerate him pretrial based connected the prosecution’s witness-tampering allegations. The euphony mogul has offered to enactment up a $50 million enslaved to stay nether location apprehension astatine his Florida mansion.

Combs, 54, perchance faces decades successful situation if convicted of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking, and proscription for purposes of prostitution. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges helium headed a immense transgression endeavor from 2008 done past year, successful which helium forced women to enactment successful highly orchestrated “freak offs” with antheral commercialized enactment workers, often nether the power of sedative drugs to support them “obedient and compliant.”

Combs has pleaded not blameworthy and maintains that participants successful the convulsive and debauched intersexual performances helium allegedly directed and recorded gave their consent.

The feds accidental victims sometimes sustained injuries truthful terrible they were forced into hiding for weeks astatine a clip and were hooked up to IV bags aft the “freak offs” owed to the carnal exertion and cause usage involved. 

The Bad Boy Records laminitis allegedly relied connected his employees to facilitate the abuse, and respective are described arsenic participating successful his enactment trafficking, arsenic good arsenic forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice, according to the indictment. 

The feds are expected to shed airy connected grounds disclosures astatine Thursday’s hearing, which they accidental are “voluminous, totaling respective terabytes of physics material,” and laic retired a timeline for erstwhile they’ll manus implicit everything to Combs’ defense.