"Puff Daddy" Held Without Bail as New Emails Allegedly Reveal Human Trafficking, Coerced Sex, and Blackmail

I saw people, I think the Lotus Eaters, calling him "Puff Diddler."

Allegedly.

Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was denied bail again on Wednesday after his lawyers argued for the second time that he should be released from "horrific" jail conditions while awaiting trial in a sex-trafficking case.

A New York federal judge remanded the musician into custody on Tuesday after prosecutors argued he was a "serious flight risk".

Mr Combs, 54, was arrested this week, accused of running a criminal enterprise from at least 2008 that relied on drugs and violence to force women to "fulfil his sexual desires", according to prosecutors.

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Instead of jail, Mr Combs's lawyers were proposing a bail package that included a $50 million bond co-signed by Mr Combs, his mother and other family members, as well as home detention, surrender of his passport, weekly drug test and a visitor log that would be submitted to pre-trial services each night.

But the judge hearing Wednesday's arguments did not agree to the proposal.

"My bigger concern deals with the danger of obstruction of justice and the danger of witness tampering," Judge Andrew Carter said. "That is a real concern that I have here."

The allegations concern Diddy holding sex videos over people's heads to blackmail them, so it is easy to assume that he could do that with the witnesses against him, who are almost all implicated in these blackmail sex parties.

A 14-page indictment charges Mr Combs with racketeering, sex trafficking by force and transportation to engage in prostitution.

If convicted on all three counts, the rapper and record producer faces a sentence of 15 years up to life in prison.

The allegations against him are Epstein-like: allegedly, he coerced people into having sex with underaged prostitutes he'd hired, and videotaped them for blackmail purposes.

The underaged-prostitute-parties were called "Freak Offs."

Questions are swirling around the salacious allegations at the center of Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering charges, including his alleged "Freak Off" parties and the seizure of 1,000 bottles of baby oil by federal authorities.

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Diddy, who is currently awaiting trial in a jail cell, has been charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking along with a slew of illicit crimes in a federal sex trafficking case.

Combs, 54, was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday -- a place that's been described as "hell on earth" and an "ongoing tragedy." The facility, the only federal jail in New York City, has been plagued by problems since it opened in the 1990s. In recent years, its conditions have been so stark that some judges have refused to send people there. It has also been home to a number of high-profile inmates, including R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell and Michael Cohen.

I don't think it's where they killed Epstein. I think that was the Metropolitan Detention Center in Manhattan, not Brooklyn.

A federal magistrate ordered him jailed without bail as he awaits trial. Combs asked a judge Wednesday if he could wait for his trial from his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach instead of the grim federal jail. He was denied that request.

They let Epstein return to his sex island. Why not Diddy?

Why can't a black man get equal justice in this society?

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The indictment accuses Combs of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes that used his "power and prestige" for "sex trafficking, forced labor, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, drug offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice."

"Freak Offs" were gatherings where Diddy allegedly wielded his power to lure victims into sex acts with male commercial sex workers, ccording to the indictment unsealed Tuesday.

The Bad Boy Records founder is accused of facilitating a network of associates and employees who helped keep victims in line using blackmail like the videos taken during the parties.

These employees would allegedly be in charge of facilitating the "Freak Offs" by booking hotel rooms.

Associates would allegedly arrange travel for victims, sex workers, and Diddy, in addition to delivering cash to pay the workers, and schedule IV fluid deliveries (used to recover from the parties).

Authorities say these "Freak Offs" would occur regularly, even lasting multiple days.

His employees allegedly facilitated "Freak Offs" by handling travel, hotel arrangements, and supplying drugs and baby oil.

They also arranged travel for victims, sex workers, and Combs, resupplied him with necessary items, delivered cash to pay the workers, and scheduled IV fluid deliveries.

During the March search of his LA and Miami homes, law enforcement seized narcotics, videos, three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers, and more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant they say were "Freak Off" supplies.

His employees would allegedly ensure that the "Freak Offs" were stocked with baby oil, linens, and lighting.

Linens. Now that's sordid. Disposable bed-sheets, they mean.

This is why I only listen to Yacht Rock. Yacht Rock praises the simple pleasures of life: the rolling ocean, sparkling white cocaine, and a ship filled with Boat Whores, Yacht Lizards, Sea Hookers, and "Naval Mabels."

The good life.

posted by Ace at 03:30 PM

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