Sean “Diddy” Combs will borrow a web page from New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams’ authorized playbook — by accusing the feds of leaking secrets and techniques about his bombshell intercourse trafficking case to the media, new court docket papers present.
Attorneys for the embattled hip-hop mogul wrote to a Manhattan federal choose Wednesday that they’ll quickly demand a “listening to and different treatments” stemming from what they declare had been “unauthorized” releases of grand jury particulars.
The alleged leaks from federal authorities “prejudiced” the general public towards Combs, 54, within the months earlier than his Sept. 18 arrest, his protection crew claimed.
Combs’ authorized crew didn’t reveal extra particulars about their anticipated accusations — which might mirror these made by Adams — saying solely that they meant to file a movement with the court docket “sooner or later immediately.”
The indicted New York Metropolis mayor claimed earlier this month that federal brokers and prosecutors leaked particulars about their probe into his 2021 marketing campaign in a bid to get witnesses to flip on him, and to wreck his public standing.
Information that investigators with Homeland Safety Investigations had raided Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami acquired widespread media protection again in March.
The raids turned up troves of proof — together with baggage of narcotics and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant that Combs allegedly deliberate to make use of throughout what he known as “Freak Offs,” marathon intercourse classes through which he would lure ladies into having intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he watched, the feds claimed.
Combs, who’s due again in court docket for a convention Thursday, can also be pushing for his trial to unfold in April or Could, in accordance with Wednesday’s publicly filed letter.
Combs faces costs of racketeering and intercourse trafficking stemming from allegations that he led his label Dangerous Boy Data as a “felony enterprise” for greater than a decade, repeatedly bodily abusing ladies in his orbit and bullying witnesses of his alleged crimes into silence.
The fallen music kingpin, who’s being held with out bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle, has pleaded not responsible. His attorneys have argued that the sexual encounters talked about within the indictment had been all consensual.
Combs had a public popularity as a trailblazing hip-hop icon earlier than his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura accused him of a slew of wicked crimes in a stunning civil lawsuit filed final November.
That case was settled inside a day, however extra lawsuits adopted, and federal prosecutors within the Southern District of New York quickly launched an investigation that led to Combs’ arrest.
Adams had awarded Combs an honorary key to town at a ceremony in September 2023, two months earlier than Ventura filed her lawsuit — a proven fact that Manhattan US Lawyer Damian Williams introduced up whereas asserting Combs’ arrest.
“A 12 months in the past, Sean Combs stood in Occasions Sq. and was handed a key to New York Metropolis,” Williams informed reporters at a press convention. “Right this moment he’s been indicted and can face justice within the Southern District of New York.”
Combs returned the important thing this June at Adams’ request.
His attorneys filed a short with the 2nd Circuit Courtroom of Appeals Tuesday evening arguing for him to be free of custody pending trial.
Combs’ attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark Wednesday.