Federal prosecutors are urging an appeals court to reject Sean “Diddy” Combs’ third bail request, because they say he poses a grave risk to the community.
In a new court filing on Wednesday, Oct. 16, prosecutors alleged the music mogul has a history of witness tampering and should not be released before his May 2025 trial on trafficking charges.
“Combs’s longstanding and sophisticated methods of obstructing justice and silencing witnesses more than established his dangerousness,” read the filing obtained by the New York Times.
The rapper and producer has been denied bail by two different federal judges. Still, his attorneys have taken their fight for bond to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Prosecutors said the lower court judges made the right move by denying bail.
“The District Court rightly rejected Combs’s effort to pay his way out of detention,” prosecutors wrote in their latest filing, “when the record established that no set of conditions could ensure the safety of the community.”