The outgoing U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York warned a federal decide at this time to watch out for bail efforts for Sean “Diddy” Combs, because the Dangerous Boy Data founder has an ongoing “historical past of obstructive conduct” and has “bodily abused his private workers.”
The ‘All Concerning the Benjamins’ performer is charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. The 55-year-old Grammy winner entered a not responsible plea when first arrested a few months in the past. Dealing with a flood of civil fits filed nearly day-after-day through the years of his celebrity-attended, drug-enhanced and videotaped “freak offs,” Combs is life in jail if discovered responsible on this crimimal case’s a trial set to start out on Could 5.
The truth is, citing the September 16 arrested and presently incarcerated Combs for “his decades-long sample of violence,” Damian William’s workplace drew a portrait Monday of the dependent for Decide Arun Subramanian that’s way more vivid than nearly something we heard from the circumspect U.S. Lawyer thus far.
Through the years, the defendant’s bodily and sexual abuse has taken many kinds, usually within the context of long-term romantic relationships. All through, there was a standard theme: the defendant repeatedly and constantly pressured and coerced girls to fulfill his sexual needs. Typically behind closed doorways, the defendant engaged in acts of violence in opposition to girls, together with throwing them to the bottom, dragging them by their hair, kicking, shoving, punching, and slapping them. He manipulated, coerced, and extorted girls, together with by plying them with medicine, threatening to withhold monetary help, and threatening to disseminate intercourse tapes that the defendant had made from their sexual encounters. He intimated girls, together with by displaying firearms, threatening them, exhibiting up at their properties unannounced, and making an attempt to beat down the door—on one event with a hammer. Past his romantic companions, the defendant additionally bodily abused his private workers. Former workers members have described the defendant threatening to kill them, throwing objects at them, and being struck, punched, and shoved by the defendant, and seeing him do the identical to others.
This vital historical past of violence have to be taken into consideration when viewing the defendant obstructive exercise. Taken collectively, there could be little doubt that the Authorities has confirmed the defendant’s dangerousness by clear and convincing proof.
After a sometimes-rough going listening to at NYC’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse on November 22 on the third try by Combs’ attorneys to get him sprung from with a $50 million bail bundle, the decide advised all events he wished “additional submissions” by 9 am PT Monday earlier than making a choice.
With the conflicting accounts of what actually went down in an alleged pre-planned raid just a few week in the past on Combs’ cell on the hardcore Metropolitan Detention Heart, the ruling from Decide Subramanian on whether or not or not Combs might get bail and find yourself beneath 24/7 safety surveillance in a three-bedroom Higher East Aspect house is predicted any time earlier than Thanksgiving.
Although the protection has an inclination to hyperlink itself to a few of Donald Trump’s newer authorized battle, at this time they’re very a lot planting a flag of household and free speech for his or her shopper.
“For months and months, authorities brokers, plaintiffs’ attorneys, and others with questionable motives have been polluting the airwaves with false and outrageous claims about Mr. Combs,” the eight-page correspondence signed by attorneys Alexandria Shapiro, Mark Agnifilo and Teny Geragos exclaims.
“This nonstop drumbeat of unfavorable publicity has destroyed his repute and can make it nearly not possible for him to obtain a good trial. Mr. Combs is just not required to sit down idly by and acquiesce to all of this. He has a proper to a good trial and a constitutional proper to talk out on his personal behalf,” they add in phrases used earlier than in earlier filings. “The federal government’s arguments that asking his kids to submit birthday needs on Instagram and that he’s not entitled to publicly categorical his opinion that this prosecution is racially motivated are, fairly merely, an unconstitutional effort to silence him.”
The protection says: “The federal government is basically arguing for the standard wherein the complete Press group—and civil plaintiffs and the federal government itself—can wage conflict in opposition to Mr. Combs’ repute however Mr. Combs can’t even attempt to affect public opinion himself in response. That’s merely not the legislation.”
Submitting after the protection this morning, the marginally redacted doc from Williams, who quickly to get replaced by Trump appointee Jay Clayton, for probably the most half sidesteps Constitutional points and rips the Agnifilo and Geragos-led protection for the shortage of “significant guardrails” in place on this newest swing at bail for Combs.
The SDNY USAO additionally hit onerous at “protection counsel’s blasé angle towards breaking these guidelines whereas concurrently asking this Courtroom to launch their shopper.” They added this “doesn’t give the Authorities any confidence that counsel will be capable of police the defendant’s conduct with any rigor.” And, with what could be known as a tough kick in any bar battle went on to say: “Certainly, opposite to representations by counsel simply days in the past, the defendant has continued to interact in unauthorized communications with members of the family from the MDC through the use of one other inmate’s ContactMeASAP account as lately as yesterday.”
Whereas a bit extra inside baseball than the opposite feedback the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace made of their 13-page letter Monday, the prosecution’s assertion of the shell sport being performed by the protection might show probably the most damning in any bail dedication.
“After protection counsel represented unequivocally on the prior bail listening to earlier than Decide Carter that the defendant wouldn’t attain out to grand jury witnesses, it grew to become clear that the defendant had executed simply that: cellphone information and digital proof reveals that the defendant contacted Witness-1 repeatedly main as much as and after his look within the grand jury, after which the defendant apparently deleted the messages from his cellphone,” they acknowledged, on the subject of Combs’ ex-long time girlfriend Cassie Enterprise (AKA Witness-1), who sued him for abuse and rape in a brief reside swimsuit final yr that was settled in 24 hours for round $30 million.
“Lastly, it can’t be ignored that the defendant’s proclivity for obstruction seems to have continued as lately as final week in court docket, when it appeared that the defendant supplied falsified paperwork to the Courtroom throughout a listening to convened to deal with his accusations of Authorities misconduct,” the feds added of Combs accusation that paperwork and notes labelled “authorized” had been improperly taken and photographed by MSC workers throughout the raid on his cell and locker.
Splaying egg all around the face of the protection, it turned out a lot of these pages didn’t not even have the time period “authorized” on them on the unique paperwork — a indisputable fact that out and out pissed off Decide Subramanian final week.
Acknowledging the error, because it had been, of papers not labelled “authorized” after which all of the sudden labelled “authorized” within the November 22 listening to, the protection had been noticeably silent on the difficulty at this time in addition to the extra particular issues of obstruction the federal government have raised.
Nevertheless, in a second submitting after court docket hours Monday, the protection did say: “Mr. Combs objects to the federal government’s submission to the extent it goes past responding to the Courtroom’s particular query, and requests that the Courtroom not contemplate any new or repetitive data within the authorities’s letter.”
All of which is saying, we plan to attempt to once more for those who deny us bail this time.