Diddy to accuse DOJ of grand jury ‘leaks’ in sex-trafficking case

• Lawyers for Combs plan a motion Wednesday condemning “leaks” relating to his sex-trafficking case.
• The issue may be argued at Combs’ next court date, scheduled for Thursday in Manhattan.
• Combs will seek “a hearing and other remedies” from what he calls prejudicial grand jury leaks.

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs alleged Wednesday that unauthorized grand jury leaks have prejudiced his sex-trafficking case.

“At some point today, Mr. Combs intends to file a motion for a hearing and other remedies related to unauthorized and prejudicial leaks of grand jury information,” attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos said in a letter to the federal judge in Manhattan now assigned to the case.

Combs’ allegation concerning leaks was the most volatile issue raised in the letter, drafted jointly by federal prosecutors and the defense to inform US District Court Judge Arun Subramanian of the issues to be discussed at the next in-court hearing, scheduled for Thursday.

The two-page letter says Combs will ask on Thursday that a trial date be set in April or May 2025. “The government will be available for trial on a date set by the court, although it remains within the court’s discretion to set a trial date at the outset of the case or at a later time,” prosecutors said in the letter.

The letter makes no mention of raising new bail arguments before Subramanian.

Combs has been held in a federal jail in Brooklyn since his September 16 arrest, and two prior judges on the district court level have denied his request to be released on home confinement in Miami on a $50 million bond.

On Tuesday night, his defense filed a brief with an intermediate federal appellate court asking that the district court-level bail denials be overturned. Federal prosecutors have yet to respond to Combs’ bail appeal.

Wednesday’s letter also alerts the judge that the parties intend to discuss on Thursday what federal prosecutors called the “voluminous” evidence in the case.

The defense will ask on Thursday that the judge set immediate deadlines for prosecutors to share evidence, the letter said.

“The timely production of these materials is critical to Mr. Combs’ ability to prepare his defense,” his lawyers wrote.

But the evidence to be shared by prosecutors with the defense via the discovery process includes “several terabytes of electronic material,” prosecutors wrote, including from electronic devices seized three weeks ago, on the day Combs was arrested.

Some of the prosecution evidence originates with Combs, prosecutors said, including physical evidence seized in March from his Miami home, and hard drives turned over by the defense on October 1.

Data from more than 40 of Combs devices and accounts is still being extracted, including from his “laptops, tablets, hard drives, cloud accounts, etc.”, prosecutors said in the letter.

Prosecutors also said that additional evidence came from the electronics of “third parties,” or consists of “business records from financial institutions, phone companies, hotels, airlines, and other businesses.”

The first batch of evidence was turned over to the defense on Monday, prosecutors said. They said they expect the remaining discovery, including from third parties, to be turned over on a rolling basis by the end of the year.

On Thursday, “the goverment will be prepared to answer any questions from the court” regarding “the status and anticipated timeline” for turning over this evidence to the defense.

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