Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new sex trafficking charges a month before trial
Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean 맥스카지노Diddy맥스카지노 Combs' indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year.
A superseding indictment filed Friday accuses Combs of using force, fraud, or coercion to compel a woman to engage in commercial sex acts from at least 2021 to 2024.
The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, also alleges Combs was involved in transporting the woman 맥스카지노 identified only as Victim-2 맥스카지노 and other people, including commercial sex workers, to engage in prostitution during the same time frame.
The new charges are in addition to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges filed against Combs when he was arrested in September. They increase the total number of charges against him from three to five.
Combs, 55, is scheduled to stand trial May 5. He remains locked up at a federal jail in Brooklyn. A message seeking comment on the new charges was left with his representatives.
Friday맥스카지노s superseding indictment is the second filed against Combs.
In the first, in January, federal prosecutors disclosed that their case involved at least three women whom they said Combs forced to engage in commercial sex acts. They also alleged Combs showed a firearm to a female victim during a kidnapping and once dangled a woman over an apartment balcony.
Combs' January indictment didn't include additional charges but modified some details of the existing ones, including adding four years to the alleged racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors now say it started in 2004, not 2008 as the original indictment had alleged.
Combs denies committing any crimes and has pleaded not guilty to the first set of charges, which allege that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
His arraignment on the new charges has not been scheduled. Prosecutors asked Friday that it be held at his final pretrial conference on April 25.
Federal prosecutors allege the 맥스카지노I맥스카지노ll Be Missing You맥스카지노 singer and Bad Boy Records founder used his 맥스카지노power and prestige맥스카지노 as a music star to induce female victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male sex workers in events dubbed 맥스카지노Freak Offs.맥스카지노
Central to the case is a March 2016 video showing Combs hitting and kicking his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, in a Los Angeles hotel hallway. Prosecutors contend the assault happened during a 맥스카지노Freak Off." Combs lawyers argue the footage was nothing more than a "glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship맥스카지노 between the two.
Combs' lawyers contend the case should never have been brought and are fighting to dismiss a charge involving allegations he transported a male escort across state lines.
맥스카지노The government has concocted a criminal case based primarily on allegations that Mr. Combs and two of his longtime girlfriends sometimes brought a third party 맥스카지노 a male escort 맥스카지노 into their sexual relationship,맥스카지노 Combs lawyer Alexandra A.E. Shapiro wrote in a February court filing.
맥스카지노Each of the three charges in the case are premised on the theory that this type of sexual activity is a federal crime,맥스카지노 Shapiro added.