Despite being declared innocent of the most serious accusations in his judgment for sex trafficking, Sean “Diddy” Combs will spend months waiting for a notoriously violent Brooklyn prison with a lack of personnel, where the music tycoon has lived for almost ten months.
Combs, 55, has been detained at the Metropolitan Center of Detention (MDC) since his arrest in September 2024. The installation, which has also arrested convicted sexual traffickers such as British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Rhythm and Blues R. Kelly singer, is far from the luxurious mansions of Los Angeles and Miami that combs I called home until last year.
After the verdict was read on Wednesday, Comb lawyers asked the district judge Arun Subramanian to release him with a bail of $ 1 million before his sentence, which is expected to take place in October.
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His hopes of returning to one of these homes and the hug of his family after being innovated from the most serious accusations were soon frustrated. The judge denied the request for bail of Combs, citing evidence of his violent behavior presented during the trial.
In recent years, the MDC has been tormented by a persistent lack of personnel, energy falls and larvae in the food of the detainees. Two weeks after the arrest of Combs, prosecutors announced criminal charges against nine MDC detainees for crimes such as aggression, murder attempted and murder in the installation in the months before the arrival of Combs.
In January last year, a federal judge of Manhattan refused to order the arrest of a man accused of drug -related crimes while awaiting trial at the MDC, calling the conditions of the “continuous tragedy.”
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Last August, another judge said he would convert the penalty of nine months in prison of an older defendant in house arrest if he were sent to the MDC, citing the “dangerous and barbaric conditions” of the arrest.
The US prison department, which operates the MDC, said in a statement that it was committed to “intensive efforts to improve the conditions of the Brooklyn MDC.” The agency said it confiscated drugs, weapons and other smuggling during a several days in prison in October and November.
During the eight-week trial, federal agents carried Combs from and to the court in Baixa Manhattan every day from the Brooklyn Sunset Park installation, which also housed the former Cryptocurrency Sam Bankman-Fried and Luigi Mangione, accused of killing a health insurance executive.
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Since then, Bankman-Frie has been transferred to a low security arrest in California and has been using his conviction for fraud and 25-year sentence. Mangione declared innocent of the murder accusations.
On Wednesday, a jury considered innocent combs of accusations of sexual trafficking and extortion, sparing him from a possible perpetual imprisonment sentence, but condemned him for two prostitution charges for prostitution that may lead him to prison for several years. He had declared himself innocent of all the accusations.
Comb defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said at court on Wednesday that Combs was housed in “a very difficult part of the MDC,” where there were fights. His lawyer Alexandra Shapiro said in a November 2024 judicial document that the frequent lockdowns at the installation impaired Combs ability to prepare for the trial.
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On Wednesday, Comb lawyers praised the MDC team, which, according to them, facilitated their access to him during the trial.
“Despite the terrible conditions in the MDC, I want to thank the good people who work there,” said Defense Lawyer Teny Geragos to reporters after the verdict.
