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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pushes for release again, offers ‘much more robust’ bail package.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pushes for release again, offers ‘much more robust’ bail package.

Sean “Diddy” Combs again asked to be released from custody on Friday, offering a “much stronger” bail package and saying the government’s criminal record against him “is thin,” according to a new court filing.

Combs is now suggesting house arrest with round-the-clock security monitoring and “almost total restrictions on Mr. Combs’ ability to contact anyone other than his attorney.”

The producer and the rapper he has already been denied bail in September, with the judge saying the government had provided enough evidence Combs was a danger to the community and a danger to obstruct justice and intimidate witnesses. He also said the bail package proposed by the defense was “inadequate”.

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His lawyers said the proposed new measures should ensure the court he would not tamper with witnesses or put others at risk.

The lawyers also argued that the federal detention center in Brooklyn, where Combs has been since his arrest, does not have the resources to help Combs view the voluminous video and photographic evidence in the case to build his defense.

“Despite MDC’s efforts to facilitate the needs of the defense team, the current arrangement makes it impossible to prepare for trial — as evidenced by the unit’s recent multi-agency operation and resulting shutdown,” the filing said, referring to a multi-agency review of the unit in late in October, which recovered “a number of electronic devices, drug and related paraphernalia, and homemade weapons,” according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Although Combs is being held at MDC-Brooklyn, the raid was not linked to the media mogul, and the prison has a long history of problems.

PHOTO: Federal law enforcement officers stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center during an interagency operation, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Yuki Iwamura/AP, FILE)PHOTO: Federal law enforcement officers stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center during an interagency operation, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Yuki Iwamura/AP, FILE)

PHOTO: Federal law enforcement officers stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center during an interagency operation, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Yuki Iwamura/AP, FILE)

Federal prosecutors began turning over evidence, which the defense said “undermines” the government’s case.

“The government clearly misled the court and concealed the true facts during the initial bail hearing,” the defense filing states. “In other words, the government’s allegations are incredibly weak and contradicted by the testimony of its own witnesses and the discovery received to date.”

Combs was charged with racketeering, forced sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution in an extensive indictment unsealed in September.

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The indictment accuses Combs of running a criminal “enterprise” that allowed him to sexually, physically, emotionally and verbally abuse his victims for years.

Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct,” the indictment states. He is also charged with narcotics offenses, arson, bribery, kidnapping, forced labor and other crimes.

He pleaded not guilty and strongly denied the charges.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pushes for release again, offers ‘much more robust’ bail package. originally appeared on abcnews.go.com