Sean “Diddy” Combs will be arraigned in Manhattan court on Thursday In his sex trafficking and racketeering case – Lawyers for the jailed hip-hop mogul are pushing for his trial to last until April.
Combs, 54, is scheduled to appear before Manhattan federal Judge Arun Subramaniam at 2 p.m. to discuss a possible trial date and set a deadline for the feds to turn over the “mass” of evidence to the embattled entrepreneur’s lawyers. When will the pile be handed over?
The ongoing investigation of Combs has uncovered “several terabytes of electronic material” – including the Bad Boy Records boss’ seized phones, laptops and hard drives – which the feds have begun turning over to his legal team on a rolling basis , prosecutors said in a letter to the judge on Wednesday.
The feds gave Combs’ team their first data dump on Monday, the letter says, including the alleged sex trafficker’s phones seized by federal agents in March, a full set of search warrants in the case and information from two of his iCloud accounts. Given. Filed jointly with the defendants.
Prosecutors expect to, within the next 30 days, prepare a “rolling productions” of evidence obtained from Combs’ hard drive, as well as material obtained from searches of his homes and the New York City hotel room where he was killed on September 18. Were living before his arrest. The letter says.
Combs intends to request that his case be heard in April or May 2025, his attorneys, Mark Agnifilo and Tenny Geragos, said in the letter.
The Feds responded that they would be “available for trial” whatever date the judge sets, whether that be on Thursday or later.
Lawyers also filed a motion late Wednesday accusing the Department of Homeland Security Leaking Grand Jury Secret Information to the MediaWhich he argues “damaged” Combs’s right to a fair trial.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges included in a sweeping indictment that depicts him as the leader of a criminal syndicate that abused and coerced women in his orbit since at least 2008. Of – while intimidating potential witnesses into silence.
Combs lured women to participate in the actions he called “Freak Offs,” day-long sex sessions Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York say he drugged his alleged victims and forced them to have sex with male sex workers.
Lawyers for the record label chief have argued that all of the sexual encounters mentioned in court papers were consensual.
Combs has been ordered held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is being kept away from the general jail population and In the same entity as convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, sources told The Post.
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