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(NewsNation) — Sean "Diddy" Combs is sharing a compartment with imprisoned FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried, a root tells The New York Times.
The portion astatine Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center is dormitory-style and is successful the aforesaid conception arsenic a radical of different inmates, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the surviving arrangements.
A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons told the Times the bureau “does not supply accusation astir conditions of confinement, including lodging assignments oregon interior information practices for immoderate peculiar incarcerated individual.”
The hip-hop mogul, 54, was indicted by a expansive assemblage connected several felony charges, ending monthslong speculation surrounding national raids conducted connected 2 of his properties successful March.
He has pleaded not guilty to each charges and unsuccessfully attempted to bail out twice, earning him a spot astatine the infamous lockup for the foreseeable future.
On Tuesday, 1 of the mogul's lawyers, Marc Agnifilo, told the Times, "Dedicated professionals astatine the M.D.C. are doing everything imaginable to assistance him and his lawyers hole his defense, and I personally convey them.”
He declined to speech astir Diddy's caller roommates oregon surviving situation.
32-year-old Bankman-Fried was convicted past November of fraud and conspiracy a twelvemonth aft his companies collapsed into bankruptcy arsenic investors rushed to retreat funds.
A assemblage concluded that immoderate of their wealth had been improperly spent connected existent estate, investments, personage endorsements, governmental contributions and lavish lifestyles.
Diddy astatine MDC Brooklyn
There are 1,218 radical astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is located successful the Eastern New York Judicial District, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Like the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the MDC is besides “plagued by chronic understaffing, changeless lockdowns, outbreaks of violence, delayed entree to aesculapian care, and a rash of suicides and death,” The Daily Beast reported.
In a connection to The Associated Press, the national Bureau of Prisons said it is “addressing the staffing and different challenges astatine MDC Brooklyn.”
NewsNation's Cassie Buchman, Safia Samee Ali and Liz Jassin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
