New York (AP) – Federal Prosecutors on Friday ADDED TWO Charges to Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘Indictment and Said They Expect Four Accuses to Testify Against Him, Expanding on Allegations that the Jailed Hip-Hop Mogul Engaged in Sex Trafficking with Multiple and As Recently As Last Year.
A Superseding Indictment Accuses Combs of USSING Force, Fraud or CoERVO TO COMPEL A WOMAN TO ENGAGE IN COMMERICAL SEX FROM AT LEAST 2021 TO 2024.
The Indictment, Returned by a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan, Also alleges that combs were involved in transport the Woman-Identified Only as “Victim-2”-and Other People, Including Commercial Sex Workers, to Engage in Prostitution the Same Period.
The New Charges are in Addition to RacketeERing Conspiracy and Sex Trafficking Charges Filed Against Combs Wen he was arrested in september. They increes the total number of charges against Him from three to five.
In a court filing, federal prosecutors said the racketeering conspiracy charge involves allegations that chombs sex-trafficked three Victims and forced a fourth, one of His employs, into sexual activity with HIM.
Combs, 55, Denies Committing Any Crimes. He is scheduled to stand Trial May 5 and Remains Locked Up With Out federal jail in brooklyn.
“These are not new allegations or new accusers. These are the same individuals, Long-Term Girlfries, WHO WERE INVOLVED IN CONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIPS, ‘Combs’ Team Said in a Statement. “THIS WAS THEIR PRIVATE SEX LIFE, Defined by Conssent, Not Coertion.”
Friday’s Superseding Indictment is the Third Filed Against Combs.
In the first, in January, Federal Prosecutors Disclosed that Their Case Involved at Least Three Women WHOM THEY SAID COMMBS FORCED TO ENGAGE IN COMMERICAL SEX ACTS. They Also al The Combs Showed A Firearm to a female Victim During A Kidnapping and Once Dangled a Woman Over An Apart Balcony.
Combs’ Januly Indictment Didn’t Include Additional Charges But Modified Some Details of the Existting Ones, Including Adding Four to the Alled Racketeering Conspiracy. Prosecutors Now Say It Started in 2004, Not 2008 As the Original Indictment Had Alleged. A Superseding Indictment in March Contained Minimal Changes.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to the First Set of Charges, Which Allege That He Coerced and Abused Women For years with help from a networking of Associates and Employees while Silencing Victsims Through Black and Violence, Including Kidnapping, Arson and Physical Beetings.
Hisignment on the new charges has not been scheduled. Prosecutors Asked Friday that it be held at his final pretrial conference on April 25.
In their filing Friday, prosecutors said three of the four accusers who are expeded to testify have asced that they have not been revealed to the public and that they are reference to at trial uses only pseudonyms.
The accuser reference to “Victim-1” in combs’ charging Documents is prepared to testify under the name, Prosecutors said in the filing, which was heavily redacted.
Federal prosecutors allege the “i’ll be missing you” Singer and Bad Boy Records Founder HIS “Power and Prestige” neither a Music Star to induce female Into Drugged-up, Elaborately Produced Sexual Performance With Male Sex Workers in Events Dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Central to the Case is a March 2016 Video Showing Combs Hitting and Kicking Hisn-Girlfriend, R&B Singer Cassiein a los Angeles Hotel Hallway. Prosecutors Contest the Assault Happened During a “Freak off.” Combs Lawyers Argue the footage was noting more than a “glympse into a Complex but decade-long consensual Relationship” between the two.
COMBS ‘Lawyers cond The Case Should Never Have Been Brought and Are Fighting to Dismiss a Charge Involving Allegations and Transported A Male Escort Across State Lines.
“The Government has concocted a criminal case bassed primarily on allegations that mr. Combs and two of his his girlfriends kindtimes brought a third party – a male escort – into their sexualsipus,“ COMBS Lawyer aexandra ae shpiro wrote in a februle Court Filing.
“Each of the three charges in the case are premassed on the theory that this type of sexual activity is a federal crime,” Shapiro added.