Sean “Diddy” Combs’ newest bail request should be denied because he’s attempting to obstruct his sex crimes case, according to federal prosecutors.
In a document filed Friday, federal prosecutors leveled new allegations aimed at the embattled music mogul, who is seeking to be released on bail for the fourth time since his September arrest at a Manhattan hotel. In the filing, prosecutors say Combs “poses a serious risk of obstruction, danger, and flight.”
Combs, who is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his May 2025 trial, has “among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool,” according to prosecutors, and “made efforts to publicly leak materials he views as helpful to his case.”
The filing includes redacted notes, found during a jail sweep, which prosecutors allege are evidence Combs paid a witness to post in support of him on Instagram.
USA TODAY reached out to reps for Combs for comment.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs again requests jailrelease, but with new conditions
The filing also claimed that Combs has “contacted witnesses through third parties” and used telephone accounts of at least eight other inmates “seemingly to avoid law enforcement monitoring.” The filing also states he tried to make phone calls to contacts who are not on his approved contact list.
The filing said that “to obtain or maintain access to other inmates’ PAC (phone access codes) numbers, the defendant directs others to pay the inmates, including through payment processing apps and BOP (Bureau of Prisons) commissary account deposits,” adding that Combs “knows” this is against BOP regulations.
On Nov. 8, Combs’ legal team filed another bid for the hip-hop mogul to be freed from detention by proposing what they called “an extremely substantial, comprehensive bail package.” Combs’ previous attempts to be released from jail on bond have been denied by multiple judges.
This renewed motion for bail by Combs’ attorneys follows two requests around the time he was charged and an appeal filed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in September.
According to federal court filings reviewed by USA TODAY at the time, Combs’ attorneys added more conditions to their previous bond proposals to argue he is not a flight risk.
They also denied he’s a danger to society by suggesting the government’s evidence of his alleged crimes – racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution – do not hold as much “weight” as prosecutors have suggested.
(This story has been updated to correct a misspelling/typo.)
Contributing: KiMi Robinson
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