Sean “Diddy” Combs is looking for to dismiss at the least one of many expenses towards him in a federal indictment filed final yr.
Attorneys for Diddy, 55, filed a movement to dismiss depend three of a September 2024 indictment that expenses him with transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
In a Tuesday, February 18, courtroom submitting, obtained by Us Weekly, the star’s attorneys argued that “no white particular person has ever been the goal of a remotely related prosecution” underneath the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of ladies and women throughout state strains for immoral functions, comparable to prostitution.
“There has by no means been the same RICO prosecution. No white particular person has ever been the goal of a remotely related case,” the movement states. “Mr. Combs has been singled out as a result of he’s a strong Black man, and he’s being prosecuted for conduct that usually goes unpunished.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs will head to courtroom after being arrested on intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses. The rapper, 54, is anticipated to look in courtroom in entrance of U.S. District Court docket Decide Andrew Carter at 3:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, September 18, to enchantment federal Decide Robyn F. Tarnofsky’s determination to disclaim him bail, in accordance […]
The movement additional alleges that “the federal government’s dealing with of this case demonstrates bias and animus.”
“It has gone out of its method to humiliate Mr. Combs and to prejudice the jury pool with pretrial publicity that performs on racist tropes. It has leaked damaging (and sometimes occasions false) materials to the press,” the movement alleges.
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and is awaiting trial on expenses together with intercourse trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. A 14-page indictment unsealed by the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace claimed that Diddy “abused, threatened and coerced ladies and others round him” for many years.
The third depend of the indictment, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, alleges that “from at the least or about 2009, as much as and together with in or about 2024” Diddy knowingly transported “feminine victims and industrial intercourse staff” throughout the U.S. “on a number of events with the intent that they interact in prostitution.”
The disgraced music mogul pleaded not responsible to the allegations towards him final September earlier than being remanded to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart forward of his trial date, which is slated to start in Might. He was additionally denied bail following 4 separate appeals.
“We’re dissatisfied with the choice to pursue what we imagine is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace,” Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed Us in a press release on the time. “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his youngsters and dealing to uplift the Black neighborhood. He’s an imperfect particular person, however he isn’t a prison.”
The assertion concluded, “To his credit score, Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those expenses. Please reserve your judgment till you will have all of the details. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he seems ahead to clearing his identify in courtroom.”
