The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York just delivered more microphone drops for the incarcerated Sean Combs.

In addition to rebuffing efforts by the Bad Boy Records founder’s defense team to name names when it comes to Combs’ multiple accusers, prosecutors returned this week with a federal grand jury.

As expected, no one in U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ office is talking today about what may or may not be going on behind closed doors. When contacted by Deadline, a spokesman for prosecutors declined to comment on the latest moves in the Combs case.

However, according to sources, the grand jury will hear new evidence today in Combs’ criminal case. I am told that as part of this there will be further evidence from a male witness.

To that end, new charges or a renewal of charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution could be included.

Just hours before the grand jury convened in Combs’ increasingly sordid case, the prosecution filed a long and detailed answer Wednesday night, addressing the defense’s desire to release the names of Combs’ accusers.

In a 56-page defense brief led by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, the feds again shot down the idea that they leaked hotel security footage from 2016 that showed Combs beating his then-girlfriend and future short-lived litigant Cassie Ventura. “As the defendant is fully aware, the video was not in the government’s possession at the time of CNN’s publication, and the government never obtained the video through the grand jury process,” Williams’ filing states.

“Defendant also complains that alleged ‘law enforcement sources’ released other alleged grand jury materials to the press in several news articles cited in his papers and set forth in the attached table (the “Cited Articles”),” it continues the answer document. to say, noting a Deadline story among the articles cited, the defense’s claims make it much harder for their accused client to get a fair trial next year. “And here, the defendant is grasping at straws. Because defendant cannot show that the information in the subpoenaed articles is material to the grand jury, and because he cannot show that government agents with access to the grand jury material leaked the information, he cannot make the prima facie showing necessary for the relief he seeks.”

This comes on the back of dozens of women and men over the past year who accused Combs to drug you, to beat and threaten you, to force you to participate in his so-called “deeds” and to rape you. In a pattern of new filings each week, the civil cases run somewhat parallel to the criminal case and Combs’ appeal of the denial of bail. In fact, Houston attorney Tony Buzbee promises he has more than 100 Combs victims coming forward with lawsuits of their own soon.

Among those victims are “Victim-1” in the criminal case, aka Ventura, who in a lawsuit last November accused Combs of years of abuse and assault; the $30 million lawsuit was quickly resolved. More recently, there’s John Doe, represented by Buzbee, who claims that when he was 10 years old, Combs sexually assaulted him in a Manhattan hotel room with promises of a career in the music industry.

Arrested on September 15 by the feds in the lobby of another New York hotel, Combs is incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He faces life behind bars if convicted a trial is scheduled to begin on May 5, 2025.

Heading into that trial before U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, the government on Wednesday pointedly rejected the defense’s desire to unmask accusers and potential witnesses at trial.

As they wrote in their court filing:

The Victim Gag Motion should be rejected as an attempt to circumvent the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to compel the government to prematurely disclose its witness list. Indeed, by seeking a preliminary injunction under Local Penal Rule 23.1 preventing potential criminal witnesses and their counsel from testifying out of court, the defendant is essentially seeking either a general injunction that would apply indiscriminately to any person with claims against Combs and their attorneys, or for a more limited order that would require the Government to identify its witnesses six months before trial. Not only would such relief be unprecedented, but the defendant should not be allowed to use a local criminal rule as a sword to goad civil plaintiffs, regardless of whether or not their statements were related to this criminal proceeding, or to evade the established jurisprudence of this Circuit.

What Subramanian will decide remains to be seen. However, today the court received a “letter from the Government supplementing the Government’s file dated 30 October 2024”. Clearly, that letter was not your ordinary correspondence. “Given the Government’s stated justifications for sealing the letter and considering it ex parte, the Court finds it appropriate to accept this letter ex parte and under seal,” Subramanian wrote today.

What was in the letter and why it was sealed remains unknown, with neither the defense nor the feds commenting.