Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ should stay locked up as he continues to flout the rules: feds

Federal prosecutors connected Friday urged a justice to contradict Sean “Diddy” Combs’ latest bid for merchandise from jail, arguing his accordant rule-breaking shows helium “cannot beryllium trusted.”

In Manhattan national court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said Combs had demonstrated helium could not abide by “any conditions” of release.

He’s offered to enactment up $50 cardinal and taxable to 24/7 monitoring by a backstage information firm nether location detention astatine an Upper East Side flat without entree to phones oregon internet. 

So far, 3 judges person declined to fto him retired since his apprehension connected sweeping enactment trafficking charges. Judge Arun Subramanian reserved issuing a determination Friday and said helium would bash truthful promptly.

“In bid for conditions to beryllium sufficient, determination has to beryllium immoderate level of spot that the suspect volition travel them,” Slavik said. “There’s nary mode to spot that immoderate backstage information steadfast could really bash what the tribunal requires and could really guarantee compliance.”

Referencing his monitored communications successful jail, the authoritative said Combs had made wide done his ain words that “he’s a information and he’s committed to concealing his crimes by immoderate means necessary,” including trying to bribe witnesses.

She said helium couldn’t adjacent abide by the rules down bars, noting he’d utilized prohibited methods of communicating with the extracurricular satellite astatine Brooklyn MDC, including with his lawyers, and had directed associates to interaction witnesses while, successful essence, moving a PR run from his jailhouse cell.

“What we person present is the defendant’s concerted effort to impact the integrity of these proceedings,” Slavik said. “He is saying, I privation to, quote, ‘Reach for this jury. I conscionable request one.’”

Sean “Diddy” Combs during his archetypal bail hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

At the hearing, Subramanian asked Combs’ squad to explicate wherefore handwritten notes a national researcher photographed successful his compartment were not labeled arsenic “legal,” as they person claimed.

The justice took possession of the photographs from prosecutors earlier this week aft Combs’ lawyers argued the notes were taxable to attorney-client privilege, holding the carnal copies up successful tribunal with the “legal” statement the justice said was not pictured.

“The archetypal clip I really saw the defence materials was erstwhile Mr. Combs brought them to tribunal connected Wednesday,” Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said. “As we beryllium present today, I’m not definite erstwhile ‘legal’ was written.”

Agnifilo said Combs’ six oregon 7 notepads successful jailhouse present each accidental “legal” and insisted they contained accusation applicable to his defence strategies. 

“All I’ll accidental is that, moving guardant successful this proceeding, delight marque definite that erstwhile representations are being made to the court, they are being made successful bully faith,” and are true, Subramanian said.

Slavik aboriginal said the discrepancies surrounding Combs’ notes showed his lawyers’ “inability to power their client.” 

Turning to explosive footage of Combs assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, Slavik said Combs’ latest arguments that prosecutors edited it were a barefaced effort to get escaped of incredibly harmful grounds to his defense. 

“He throws her to the ground, helium kicks her, helium drags her. That portion was not edited,” the authoritative said, noting Combs had adjacent “admitted to it and helium apologized for it.”

“This video is grounds that the suspect is simply a convulsive abuser and he’s a information to the community,” Slavik said, noting Combs had tried to bribe edifice unit to delete it. “The suspect knows that this is devastating grounds against him astatine proceedings and this is why, your honor, he’s throwing thing astatine the partition to get this portion to spell away.”

The surveillance video, first published by CNN successful May, depicts a disturbing March 2016 incidental successful which Combs was seen brutally assaulting Ventura successful the hallway of a hotel. He settled a suit with Ventura for a reported $30 cardinal successful precocious 2023 and publically apologized for the incidental aft the video’s merchandise this year.

“It’s our defence to these charges that this was a toxic, loving, 11-year relationship,” Agnifilo aboriginal countered, describing it arsenic a “consensual, semipermanent fraught relationship.”

The Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

The Bad Boy Records founder, brought into the courtroom conscionable aft 2 p.m., blew kisses to his parent and respective of his children seated successful the assemblage and tapped his bosom earlier hugging his lawyers. He wore beige situation garb implicit a achromatic long-sleeved shirt.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking and interstate proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. The charges carrying a imaginable decades-long condemnation impeach him of utilizing 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 helium 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.

Combs’ lawyer Anthony Ricco said Combs would beryllium detained nether much restrictive measures connected the Upper East Side than astatine the MDC due to the fact that helium wouldn’t person entree to immoderate phones, similar contraband ones astatine the jail.

The bail connection would spot Combs monitored by Patriot Security Group and person nary visitors but his lawyers and a fistful of relatives approved by prosecutors and pretrial services.

Agnifilo projected the three-bedroom Manhattan residence arsenic a determination for Combs to await his May 5 proceedings aft the justice said determination was nary mode helium could bash truthful connected Star Island successful South Florida.

“That’s not going to work,” the justice said.