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A decide has denied rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request to be released on bail forward of his trial for federal sex trafficking charges.
Combs’ legal professionals had requested he be launched on $50 million bond, saying he would keep in a three-bedroom house on New York’s Higher East Facet and pay the fee to have personal safety monitor him across the clock.
District Choose Arun Subramanian denied the request, ruling, “The Courtroom finds that the federal government has proven by clear and convincing proof that no situation or mixture of situations will fairly guarantee the protection of the neighborhood.”
Subramanian concluded that “there may be compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence” and that if launched whereas awaiting trial, “there may be proof supporting a critical threat of witness tampering.”
Combs was arrested in September and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to the fees.
U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Robyn Tarnofsky on the time ordered Combs be held with out bail, however the rapper’s authorized workforce has filed a number of requests to have him launched since then. They’ve all been denied.
Combs is being held at a detention center throughout the East River from Manhattan in Brooklyn, New York, in line with on-line data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Combs is accused of utilizing his enterprise empire as a felony enterprise to hide his alleged abuse of girls at occasions Combs known as “Freak Offs.”
“The ‘Freak Offs’ generally lasted days at a time, concerned a number of business intercourse employees and infrequently concerned quite a lot of narcotics, reminiscent of ketamine, ecstasy and GHB, which Combs distributed to the victims to maintain them obedient and compliant,” U.S. Lawyer Damian Williams, of the Southern District of New York, informed reporters final month.
Combs has denied any wrongdoing. One in every of his attoneys, Marc Agnifilo, mentioned final month, “We will combat this case with every thing we’ve, as is he, and finally, he will be proven to be harmless.”
His trial is scheduled for Could 2025.
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