Looking at life behind bars if found guilty on charges of sex trafficking and more, Sean “Diddy” Combs and his lawyers are now going on the offensive against the Department of Homeland Security . In a risky tactic, Combs’ defense are accusing DHS agents of leaking grand jury information and orchestrating a smear campaign against the “It’s All About the Benjamins” performer. As the bail denied Combs stews in the raucous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, his Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos team are demanding an pivotal hearing in front of Judge Arun Subramanian ASAP over the alleged DHS “misconduct.
” “Defendant Sean Combs moves for four forms of relief related to what the defense believes was a series of unlawful government leaks, which have led to damaging, highly prejudicial pre-trial publicity that can only taint the jury pool and deprive Mr. Combs of his right to a fair trial,” declares a potentially perturbing memorandum of law in support of motion for an Evidentiary hearing filed late Wednesday in federal court. Read Sean Combs’ defense’s memorandum of law accusing DHS of misconduct here Coming one day after the September 16 arrested Bad Boy Records founder started his appeal for pre-trial release with claims of the feds concealing evidence , the newly filed document beats on a very similar drum.
However, unlike the Hail Mary appeal, which saves its ire for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, this filing is a.