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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Demands Information How Feds Got Jail Cell Notes Amid Witness Tampering Allegations
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Demands Information How Feds Got Jail Cell Notes Amid Witness Tampering Allegations

Amid fresh allegations that Sean “Diddy” Combs is running a PR campaign from behind bars designed to intimidate witnesses and influence jurorsattorneys for the hip-hop mogul on Monday requested a hearing on how federal authorities obtained his documents from the Brooklyn-based MDC.

In arguments opposing Combs’ latest request to be released on $50 million bond, the US attorney’s office in Manhattan alerted the judge on Friday that they found evidence that he was assigning family members and associates to contact potential witnesses and asked them to make public statements designed to alter public perception of his case, further arguing that his “long history of violence demonstrates his dangerousness.”

“(While) attempting to evade law enforcement surveillance, the defendant has, among other things, a campaigns organized on social media which, in his own words, is aimed at tainting the jury; has made efforts to publicly disclose materials it considers useful to its case; and contacted witnesses through third parties,” prosecutors wrote Friday.

In one line, mostly redacted from Friday’s filing, the prosecution said it was clear “Combs’ goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or into providing testimony helpful to his defense.”

Combs’ attorneys Monday morning he told the court learned Friday at 11:29 p.m. that his notes had been taken from his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and given to the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan.

“We request an immediate hearing at which the Government provides answers to the following questions: First, who authorized the search of Mr. Combs’ sleeping area, personal effects and documents? Second, who decided what documents to take? Third, who decided to give these documents to the United States Attorney’s Office? Fourth, who decided to give this documentation to the prosecutors?” Combs’ attorneys Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos and Anthony Ricco wrote Monday.

“Fifth, who made the decision not to tell Mr. Combs’ attorney that the US Attorney was in possession of his notes, including ‘potentially privileged material,’ until after the Government put them in a file to keep him in prison ? Sixth, exactly what material was taken?”

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and interstate transportation to engage in prostitution who claim that for years he used his business empire to facilitate the sexual abuse and coercion of women he forced to take part in violent sex shows called “freak offs”.

The feds say Combs often directed and filmed the shows and drugged his victims into compliance, and that he and associates engaged in forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.

Two federal judges have determined Piepteni poses too many risks to be released. He is expected to appear in court on Friday for another bail hearing.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office and attorneys for Combs did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

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