Federal prosecutors say Sean "Diddy" Combs' bail request should be denied because he's attempting to obstruct his sex crimes case, USA Today reports.On Friday, federal prosecutors leveled new allegations aimed at the embattled music mogul, who is seeking for the fourth time to be released on bail since his September arrest at a Manhattan hotel. Prosecutors say Combs "poses a serious risk of obstruction, danger, and flight." Combs, who is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn pending a trial scheduled for May 2025, has "among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool," according to prosecutors, and "made efforts to publicly leak materials he views as helpful to his case." The filing includes redacted notes, found during a jail sweep, which prosecutors allege are evidence Combs paid a witness to post on Instagram supporting him.
The filing alleged that Combs has "contacted witnesses through third parties" and used telephone accounts of at least eight other inmates "seemingly to avoid law enforcement monitoring." The filing says Combs tried to make phone calls to contacts who are not on his approved contact list. The filing said that "to obtain or maintain access to other inmates’ PAC (phone access codes) numbers, the defendant directs others to pay the inmates, including through payment processing apps and BOP (Bureau of Prisons) commissary account deposits," adding that Combs "knows" this is against BOP regulations. On Nov. 8, Combs' legal team filed another bid for the hip-hop mogul to be freed from detention by proposing what they called "an extremely substantial, comprehensive bail package." Combs' previous attempts to be released on bond have been denied by several judges.
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