{"id":127577,"date":"2024-11-19T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127577"},"modified":"2024-11-19T08:16:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:16:04","slug":"prosecutors-allege-witness-tampering-plot-in-sean-diddy-combs-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127577","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors allege witness tampering plot in Sean &#8216;Diddy&#8217; Combs case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Evidence found in Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 jail cell suggests he has influenced a witness in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case and is trying to blackmail others, prosecutors allege. They say that he has sought to avoid federal detection by using three-way calls and other inmates\u2019 phone access codes.<\/p>\n<p>In a motion filed Friday, federal prosecutors say Combs was using  secretive methods to contact outsiders from jail, and evidence gathered shows \u201cthe clear inference that the defendant\u2019s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or provide testimony helpful to his defense. An allegation that is more often seen in mob trials or Mexican Mafia-style cases.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But in a motion filed Monday, the music mogul\u2019s lawyers contend that what investigators actually seized from his Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn was \u201cattorney-client privileged material,\u201d including handwritten notes by Combs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis search and seizure are in violation of Mr. Combs\u2019 Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights,\u201d his attorneys wrote. \u201cThe targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee\u2019s work product and privileged materials \u2014 created in preparation for trial \u2014 is outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantive due process violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys only learned that notes were seized from Combs\u2019 cell when prosecutors filed a motion 30 minutes before midnight Friday citing them as evidence opposing his release, his attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In a new filing Monday, prosecutors said they had not seen anything from a legal file in his cell and turned over photographs agents took of items in the cell to a \u201cfilter team\u201d to determine if there was anything privileged that should remain private. That team redacted anything that appeared to be privileged and then gave the information to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The battling motions come as a federal judge is slated again this week to decide whether Combs, who has been behind bars since his September arrest, should be granted $50-million bail and released to house detention.<\/p>\n<p>Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs and his associates are accused of luring female victims, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship, and allegedly using force, threats of force, coercion and drugs to get them to engage in sex acts with male prostitutes in what Combs referred to as \u201cfreak offs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors reiterated their opposition to Combs being granted bail to the judge on Friday, alleging Combs attempted to tamper with witnesses and influence potential jurors from his prison cell using his family members and said they feared his behavior would worsen out of custody.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Combs\u2019 notes were recovered from the \u201cdefendant\u2019s cell during a pre-planned nationwide sweep of BOP facilities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, said there\u2019s a reason prosecutors believe Combs is obstructing justice from prison, a similar argument they made during a previous bail hearing, and there is a good chance the judge doesn\u2019t toss out evidence seized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInmates don\u2019t have a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in prison. Guards can search his cell without probable cause or a warrant,\u201d she said, adding that there is a process to handle potentially privileged materials found during a search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feds usually use a \u2018taint\u2019 or \u2018dirty\u2019 team of agents that aren\u2019t working on the case to conduct these searches. That way, if they see privileged materials, the \u2018clean\u2019 team won\u2019t be disqualified from the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their partially redacted filing on Friday, prosecutors allege the evidence seized shows a pattern of influence from Combs while in custody and that he\u2019s made \u201crelentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, including victims of his abuse who could provide powerful testimony against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They accuse Combs of using phone access codes, known as PAC numbers, of eight other inmates to contact several people \u2014 including his sons \u2014 and making \u201cthree-way calls to contact other individuals.\u201d Prosecutors also allege that Combs has used a third-party communication service called ContactMeASAP to reach unauthorized individuals.<\/p>\n<p>They referred to a call with \u201cWitness-2\u201d and said his communications with the individual as well as his personal notes revealed \u201ca strong inference\u201d that \u201cthe defendant paid Witness-2 after she posted her statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also cited an October call between Combs and one of his sons. Although the specific wording of the call was redacted, prosecutors alleged it \u201cprovides the clear inference that the defendant\u2019s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or provide testimony helpful to his defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-11-18\/sean-diddy-combs-jail-cell-raided-juror-witness-tampering-motions\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence found in Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 jail cell suggests he has influenced a witness in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case and is trying to blackmail others, prosecutors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127577\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}