The music mogul has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center for nearly seven months.
The music mogul has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center for nearly seven months.
The music mogul has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center for nearly seven months.
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about the latest court appearance by the music mogul Sean Combs, who is known as Puff Daddy and Diddy — and about conditions in the jail unit where he has lived for seven months. We’ll also get details on why a relatively small number of restaurants have applied for permits for outdoor dining structures under new city regulations.
On Monday, Sean Combs, the music mogul known as Puffy Daddy or Diddy, was in court — again.
He pleaded not guilty — again.
Then he was taken back to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is Inmate 37452-054.
He has been a resident there despite his lawyers’ arguments that he should be free until his trial begins. Several hearings were devoted to arguments over whether he was too much of a threat to the community and too likely to orchestrate witness tampering to be released on bail. Three judges decided that he was, so Combs has remained at the long-troubled jail.
The hearing on Monday, in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, was the latest since his arrest on racketeering and sex trafficking charges last year. The government had filed a document called a superseding indictment, which added a second major sex-trafficking charge to the allegations.