Once more, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bail is refused in his federal sex trafficking prosecution in New York.
For the second time in his sex trafficking case in New York City, Sean “Diddy” Combs was not granted bail. After Combs’ legal team filed an appeal, a federal court ruled on Wednesday that Combs should remain in custody without being granted bail.
At the bail hearing on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. stated that the prosecution presented “clear and convincing evidence that there is no condition or set of conditions” to ensure the community’s safety or stop Combs from possibly tampering with witnesses if he were freed.
Following the hearing on Wednesday, Combs’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said reporters that his goal is to attempt to bring the matter to trial as soon as possible.
“I understand that the government has a great amount of electronic devices that they have to download and provide to me, but everything’s on the government’s timetable, nothing’s on the defendant’s timetable, and they’re going to have to accommodate me and him and give us a quick trial,” Agnifilo said.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, of the Southern District of New York, told reporters Tuesday that federal agents earlier this year seized devices from Combs’ homes containing images and videos of his alleged abuse of women.
The hip-hop entrepreneur was charged in an indictment with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to participate in prostitution. On Tuesday, he appeared in federal court, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky granted the prosecution’s request and refused the mogul’s request for bail. In a lower Manhattan courtroom, Combs entered a not guilty plea to the charges during the same hearing.
Online records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons indicate that Combs is being kept at a detention facility in Brooklyn, New York, which is located over the East River from Manhattan.
Before Wednesday’s hearing, Agnifilo told CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan that Combs’s current incarceration facility is “a very difficult place to be.”