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OK- now US v. Sean Combs bail appeal. Yesterday Inner City Press asked US Attorney Damian Williams if seeks to detain; Yes. Coverage below, support:
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[In high-ceilinged Courtroom 110, Sean Combs is at defense table, still in black shirt (not MDC tan uniform). Two US Marshals seated behind him. Waiting on Judge Andrew L. Carter…
All rise!Government?AUSA Emily Johnson: The freak-offs were elaborate. They began in 2009 and extended into this year. These freak-offs were arranged with his entourage. The defendant used narcotics so that the victims would continue: ketamine, GHB and others
AUSA: The defendant would record these freak-offs at least in part to use them to blackmail. We have an email, a victim says You were going to make me - I'm not going to say it on the public record - or you were going to leak some F.O.



AUSA: A different victim wrote, He said he was going to expose me with the sex tape, I was drugged.That's just two example. And so it's rich when the defendant submission filed today accuses the victim of extorting. He's the only extorter
AUSA: We seized six guns, they were in the defendant's home and he had access to them. We are focused on the defaced guns in defendant's closet. This is not about security but dangerousness. The security team is the same one he says would monitor him
AUSA: The head of his security has now been served with a subpoena, given what we've learned about his role in the offense conduct. Now, about the hotel assault - yesterday defense counsel called it a fight in a relationship. But it's trafficking
AUSA: The defendant had a freak-off on March 5, 2016. We have evidence there was one commercial sex worker there in the room, during the assault. She isn't even wearing shoes. She is in danger. Defendant storms out in a towel
AUSA: We have a message from the Victim, I still have crazy bruising. He claims he wanted to get his clothes back. But that's not what happened her. She tried to escape a room with the defendant and a commercial sex worker - she fled without shoes
AUSA: Immediately after the assault, the defendant sent these messages: Call me, the cops are here. I got six kids. Yo, please call, I am surrounded. You gonna abandon me all alone.The defendant knew he had done something that could elicit police response
AUSA: He covered up what he did. This year, after the surveillance video came out, only then did he admit that it was him. Yesterday it was claimed that his clothes were taken - but that's not what happened. Why drag the victim back down the hall to the room?
AUSA: The indisputable evidence makes clear you cannot take the defendant at his word. March 5, 2016 is far from the defendant's lone act of violence and obstruction. Freak-off activity is the core of this case. They use force, coercion and drugs
AUSA: Our investigation is ongoing. Half a dozen escorts is just the tip of the iceberg of the number of escorts who have participated in these freak-offs. This case is charged a sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. The acts were not consensual.
AUSA: The defense is arguing that anyone in a freak-off wanted to be there. That's not the law. When people are threatened with exposure, and are beaten, they cannot consent. That is trafficking. Victims' heads were slammed against car windows
AUSA: Here are some text: when you get f*cked up, you knock me around. I'm not a rag doll. I'm someone's child. We have witnesses who witnessed the injuries. This conduct happened behind closed door, in houses, hotel rooms and cars. Judge Tarnofsky was concerned
AUSA: Judge Tarnofsky found that she did not believe defense counsel can control the defendant... Consider the Mercedes case in this Circuit, reversing a decision to release a defendant. Let's turn to obstruction. Witnesses have expressed extreme fear of him
AUSA: They have directly contacts a victim in November 2023. Constant contact with witnesses to the charged conduct, after subpoena, before government interviews. Two of these examples are, there are communications between the defendant and a witness, 13 contacts
Judge Carter: 13 contacts with two people?AUSA Johnson: Sorry, 14 contacts between the defendant and the witness. Also, he outreached to a witness he had not been in contact with for several years, after the grand jury subpoena. He used intermediaries
AUSA: He recorded the conversation on another person's device... In November 2023 he twice called a victim. On Nov 19, he received a text from this other person in response. It reads, I feel like I'm reading my own sexual trauma. 3 pages, my experience
AUSA: The defendant called her and gaslit her, trying to convince her it has been consensual. He repeatedly said he was not supposed to be speaking on the phone, he tells the witness not to text him. The defendant said if support, nothing to worry about: money
AUSA: The defendant wrote, his financial adviser should not make a mistake and not get that rent paid - this was obstruction. We cite US v. Lafontaine, a defendant who fed a false narrative. That's what's going on here.
AUSA: I'll go over the cases -Judge Carter: That's not necessary. I'm familiar with those cases.AUSA: A recent civil suit. Last week Dawn Richard filed a civil suit. She was in a band, also with Ms. Harper. Ms. Harper issued a statement- after 128 phone contacts
AUSA: We didn't deal with Lawrence Ray's case - Magistrate Judge Fox ordered detention, even on one victim.
But the judge found that corroborated by documentary evidence.
Judge: Anything else?
AUSA: A few more things.
Judge: How many?
AUSA: 3 minutes
AUSA: Traveling to New York does not address danger to the community. I am here seeking detention. But I note that the bail package does not have enough conditions that focus on obstruction. And it couldn't - he's been involving other people.
AUSA: The defendant should be detained pending trial.Judge: Defense?Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo: Let me start with Ms. Harper. I was called by her and a lawyer. I said, Do what you want, make a statement or not. I later found out that she did.
Combs' 2d lawyer Teny Geragos: Ms. Harper felt she was being besmirched. We did speak with her, at 2 am on the 11th.Judge: After speaking, what would be the reason for Mr. Combs to continue contacting her?Geragos: She was concerned she was in the media
Agnifilo: I have brought today the head of Sage Intelligence. We are proposing that Sage Intelligence personnel, all former law enforcement, will be monitoring the residence of Mr. Combs, 24/7. They will have one or two employees there at all times
Agnifilo: There will be a visitor log, only pre-approved could come in. We could give the list to the court. Mr. Combs will not have a cell phone or access to the internet. That way, no witness intimidation, completely nullified.