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(NewsNation) — Prosecutors said successful a tribunal papers past week that Sean "Diddy" Combs tried to interaction imaginable witnesses for his upcoming enactment trafficking proceedings from jail.
"The suspect has continued to prosecute successful a relentless people of obstructive behaviour designed to subvert the integrity of these proceedings," prosecutors said successful a tribunal filing asking the justice to cull Combs' $50 million bail request. "The suspect has shown repeatedly — adjacent portion successful custody — that helium volition flagrantly and repeatedly flout rules successful bid to improperly interaction the result of his case."
Jail calls showed that Combs asked household members to scope retired to imaginable victims and witnesses, prosecutors said successful the filing. They besides accused Combs of orchestrating societal media campaigns "aimed astatine tainting the assemblage pool" and trying to publically leak materials that could assistance his case. Part of this run included having his children station a video to their societal media accounts showing them gathered to observe Combs' birthday, the tribunal filing said.
During a nationwide expanse of Bureau of Prison facilities, investigators recovered notes from Combs' compartment telephone that included communications with a pistillate identified successful the tribunal filing arsenic Witness 2.
"It is wide that erstwhile the suspect reinitiated interaction with Witness 2 successful September 2024, his intent was to guarantee that Witness 2 was connected his side," prosecutors wrote.
The beardown inference to beryllium drawn from Combs' connection with Witness 2 is that helium paid her aft she posted a connection denying allegations of unit by him.
NewsNation reached retired to Witness 2 for comment.
In their ain filing, Combs' lawyers argued that the prosecutors' hunt and seizure of their clients' notes violated his rights, according to Billboard.
"The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s enactment merchandise and privileged materials — created successful mentation for proceedings — is outrageous authorities behaviour amounting to a substantive owed process violation," Combs' pb attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said successful the filing.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that helium "led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged successful enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among different crimes. "
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
