Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal professionals claimed the disgraced Unhealthy Boy billionaire was disadvantaged of the fitting to a good trial via a sequence of “illegal authorities leaks” in new motions filed Wednesday.
Combs, 54, requested an evidentiary listening to to look at alleged authorities misconduct in reference to the leaks of “discovery emails, paperwork and data within the possession of the federal government (together with DHS) associated to those leaks),” in accordance with paperwork obtained by Fox Information Digital.
He accused Division of Homeland Safety brokers of offering “false and prejudicial statements” to varied press shops over the past seven months following the raids on his houses in Miami and Los Angeles, the place his sons have been “handcuffed and manhandled by federal brokers armed with assault rifles.”Â
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Sean Combs claimed the federal government was accountable for leaking a 2016 surveillance video of an alleged violent incident along with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. (Getty Photographs)
The “Final Night time” singer accused officers of leaking the 2016 surveillance video from the Intercontinental Resort to CNN, which allegedly confirmed Combs assaulting his then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
Combs “kicked dragged, and threw a vase at a lady as she was making an attempt to go away,” the indictment stated. “When a member of the resort safety workers intervened, Combs tried to bribe the workers member to make sure silence.”
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“Whereas the federal government’s misconduct on this case is especially egregious, it’s sadly a part of a pattern on this District—the federal government has discovered that it could actually strategically leak info with impunity,” the paperwork acknowledged. “This Courtroom ought to train its authority to ban these underhanded ways, which severely undermine a prison defendant’s proper to a good trial.”
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The request for the listening to “is required to find out precisely what the DHS did, and did to not concerning these leaks, and what the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace did and didn’t do to cease them,” the submitting acknowledged.Â
“Whereas the federal government’s misconduct on this case is especially egregious, it’s sadly a part of a pattern on this District—the federal government has discovered that it could actually strategically leak info with impunity.”
Cassie Ventura filed a sexual abuse swimsuit in opposition to Sean Combs in November, which was settled at some point later. (Getty Photographs)
“On the outset, the protection needs to be clear with the Courtroom as to what our principle is and isn’t. We don’t contend that the leaks have been orchestrated by the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace. Reasonably, we contend that the false media statements and the grand jury leaks complained of beneath have been deliberate and executed by DHS. Because the events develop extra info on this regard, the Courtroom will see that the protection repeatedly contacted the prosecutors and acknowledged, in substance, that their brokers have been leaking info to the press.Â
“But no matter what, if any, motion the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace took, the leaks continued, even till after the arrest. The explanation a listening to is required is to find out precisely what the DHS did, and didn’t do concerning these leaks, and what the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace did and didn’t do to cease them.”Â
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Sean Combs’ allegedly employed associates to assist defend and promote the Combs Enterprise. (Shareif Ziyadat)
Combs was arrested on Sept. 16 and charged the next day with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and transportation to interact in prostitution. The rapper entered a not responsible plea hours after an indictment was unsealed detailing his alleged intercourse crimes.
 “The explanation a listening to is required is to find out precisely what the DHS did, and didn’t do concerning these leaks, and what the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace did and didn’t do to cease them.”Â
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Authorities alleged Combs ran a prison enterprise via his companies, together with Unhealthy Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs World, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual needs, in accordance with the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not responsible final month and is anticipated again in court docket on Oct. 10. (Elizabeth Williams by way of AP)
Combs and his staff would “intimidate, threaten, and lure feminine victims into Combs’ orbit, typically underneath the pretense of a romantic relationship. Combs allegedly then used pressure, threats of pressure and coercion to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male business intercourse staff that Combs known as, amongst different issues, ‘Freak Offs.'” Combs typically supplied IV fluids to his victims after “freak offs” to get well from bodily exertion and drug use, in accordance with the indictment.
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