Diddy Denied Bail In Sex-Trafficking & Racketeering Case

Diddy Denied Bail In Sex-Trafficking & Racketeering Conspiracy Case

Roughly six months after federal authorities conducting a sex-trafficking investigation raided Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami, he was arrested on Monday in Manhattan.

Yesterday, the rapper was denied bail and ordered to jail as he faces charges of sex trafficking and racketeering that were included in a federal indictment.

The indictment alleges that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs also engaged in kidnapping, forced labor, bribery and other crimes. After a lengthy arguments from prosecutors and Combs’s lawyers, federal judge Robyn Tarnofsky, decided the defendant should remain in federal detention.

Diddy will remain detained until his trial.

A judge has denied Diddy’s bail proposal which included a $50 Million bond request. pic.twitter.com/VgwnLUOUsr

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The disgraced mogul took a long sip of water from a bottle after bail was denied and was led out of court without being handcuffed, as he looked towards relatives in the public gallery.

“Mr Combs is a fighter. He’s going to fight this to the end. He’s innocent,” Puff’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said after court. According to CNN, his lawyers submitted a new bail package Wednesday that proposes to restrict all female visitors to his home who are not family members.

The three-count, 14-page indictment alleges racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. The document also contains graphic details, including that he would force sex-trafficking victims to engage in ‘freak offs’, a group sex acts with his associates – sometimes for days at a time – while he recorded video of the encounters and masturbated to them.

The encounters were so physically exhausting for him and his victims whom he would force to ingest drugs – that all “typically received IV fluids to recover”, the indictment said.

Diddy’s alleged criminal conspiracy, the indictment says, “relied on employees, resources, and influence of the multi-faceted business empire that he led and controlled – creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice”.