Sean “Diddy” Combs was prepared to show himself in to authorities earlier than his indictment on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs, his lawyer has stated.
On Wednesday, the hip-hop artist and music business mogul was denied bail for a second time after he was arrested on Monday in New York.
In keeping with his lawyer, prosecutors for america Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York, which issued the indictment, declined their supply for Combs to give up.
In an e-mail to Newsweek, the Legal professional’s Workplace declined to remark.
Marc Agnifilo, of Agnifilo Regulation Group, is representing Combs in courtroom, and on Tuesday, he stated on CNN’s The Supply With Kaitlan Collins: “An important factor … is that Mr. Combs got here to New York on September 5.
“As quickly as we realized that this indictment was going to be coming down in a matter of weeks, possibly months, however someday quickly, Mr. Combs obtained on a airplane, left his dwelling in Florida, flew to New York.
“I known as the prosecutors myself. I stated: ‘Mr. Combs is in New York. Do you need to know the place he’s? If you wish to the place he’s, I am going to inform you the place he’s, however he needs to give up. He is right here to give up.'”
Sean “Diddy” Combs, left, in Washington, D.C., on October 20, 2023, and Marc Agnifilo, has lawyer, exterior federal courtroom after Combs’ arraignment listening to on September 17. Agnifilo stated his shopper provided to show himself in.
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Agnifilo added, “They did not need him to give up as a result of if he surrenders, they do not get to inform the decide that he is a flight danger and he is a hazard as a result of who as a hazard and a flight danger would fly to New York and give up. So that they did not need him to give up.”
Host Kaitlan Collins requested the lawyer after they discovered that Combs would doubtless face formal costs.
“So I actually knew he was previously going to face costs on March 25, the day of the searches. When Homeland Safety searched his Los Angeles dwelling, his Miami dwelling, and his airplane, I knew that day by trying on the search warrants—I imply, I have been doing this for some time. This isn’t my first or a centesimal rodeo—that this was going to come back as a matter of time,” Agnifilo stated.
Newsweek contacted Agnifilo by e-mail for remark.
On September 17, a 14-page indictment was unsealed, accusing Combs of racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by drive, trigger or coercion; and transportation to interact in prostitution costs.
“For many years, SEAN COMBS, a/ok/a ‘Puff Daddy,’ a/ok/a ‘P Diddy,’ a/ok/a ‘Diddy,’ a/ok/a ‘PD,’ a/ok/a ‘Love,’ the defendant, abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to satisfy his sexual needs, shield his status, and conceal his conduct,” the indictment stated.
On Tuesday, Combs pleaded not responsible at a courtroom listening to, the place he was first denied bail.
On Wednesday, District Decide Andrew L. Carter Jr. denied Combs’ $50 million bond package deal, deeming him a flight danger and vulnerable to coercing witnesses.
Combs stays in remand on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, which has beforehand been a brief dwelling for different incarcerated celebs, together with R. Kelly, Michael Cohen, Allison Mack and Ghislaine Maxwell.
A trial date is about for October 9.