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Live outside a federal court in Manhattan where US rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing in his sex trafficking case. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been dealt a legal setback as he prepares to go trial in his racketeering and sex crimes case next year.
On Monday, Judge Arun Subramanian issued a ruling obtained by USA TODAY that denied Combs' October request for an evidentiary hearing to investigate their claim that the government leaked information from his case, including footage showing him assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016.
"Combs has not carried his burden to show that the government leaked (the video) to CNN. Combs argues that 'the most likely source of the leak is the government,' but he doesn’t point to any sound basis for this conclusion," Subramanian wrote. He added that none of Combs' arguments for the Department of Homeland Security being the source of the video broadcast by CNN were "convincing."
He indicated that he sides with prosecutors, who denied having access to the footage prior to CNN publicizing it.
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