Federal prosecutors are again urging a judge not to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs, saying the mogul tried to tamper with witnesses and influence potential jurors from behind bars.

Prosecutors filed a motion late Friday in response to a motion filed by Combs requesting a new bail hearing after he was previously denied pretrial release by two different judges.

In the latest filing, prosecutors allege that Combs “has made relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, including victims of his abuse who could provide strong testimony against him.”

The Bad Boy Records founder is accused of using other inmates’ phone access codes, known as PAC numbers, to contact several people – including his sons – from prison and making “triple calls to contact take with other persons’.

Prosecutors also allege that Combs used a third-party communications service called ContactMeASAP to contact “unauthorized” individuals.

Some of the prosecutors’ claims in the file have been redacted. Prosecutors pointed to the case of an October phone call between Combs and one of his adult sons as an example of his alleged efforts to contact witnesses, but the details of that phone call appear to have been redacted. However, prosecutors argue that the call “yields the clear inference that the suspect’s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses, either into silence or into providing testimony useful to his defense.”

Combs also tried to shape public perception of the case from behind bars, prosecutors allege. They cite a video posted to Instagram by Combs’ son, Justin, showing the mogul’s children on the phone singing Happy Birthday to their imprisoned father, who turned 55 on Nov. 4.

Prosecutors say Combs “monitored the analytics” and “public involvement” from prison — and explicitly discussed with his family how to ensure the video in this case had the desired effect on potential jurors.

The mogul is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution following a federal indictment.

Combs was initially denied bail when a judge feared he might tamper with witnesses.

The indictment against Combs alleges that he used his influence to orchestrate “freak offs,” which prosecutors say were highly orchestrated sex performances involving male sex workers and women who were coerced or coerced into participating.

Combs has pleaded not guilty but has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn pending trial.

In a November 8 filing, Combs’ lawyers sought to have him released again, albeit under very strict conditions.

The motion seeking bail claims the plaintiff’s case is “thin” and cites a March 2016 video referenced in the initial indictment against the Bad Boy Records founder in which he appears to forcibly assault a woman fall into a hotel in Los Angeles.

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“The video is not evidence of a coerced ‘freak off,’ but rather a minute-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship between Mr. Combs and Victim 1,” the defense claims.

Combs’ lawyers proposed house arrest with 24/7 security supervision and “near total restrictions” on Combs’ ability to contact anyone other than his defense team.

Combs’ trial is currently scheduled for May 2025.

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