Diddy In Court docket, Feds Say They’re Not Racist for Prosecuting Him

Federal prosecutors fired again at Diddy’s legal professional in court docket Thursday, saying he wrongfully accused them of racially profiling their well-known shopper within the TMZ documentary “The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment.”

In our September documentary, Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, mentioned the feds had been pursuing the prison case in opposition to his shopper as a “takedown of a profitable Black man.”

Agnifilo had mentioned the feds could not nail Diddy for something associated to taxes or his enterprise empire … so that they began poking round in his bed room. In a grand jury indictment, the feds charged Diddy with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.

As we first reported Wednesday, the protection slammed the Division of Homeland Safety for allegedly orchestrating the leak to CNN of the notorious video of Diddy viciously assaulting Cassie.

However, in court docket right now, prosecutors denied giving out info publicly. The decide denied the gag order. Each side agreed to not converse to journalists going ahead.

Prosecutors additionally mentioned in court docket Thursday the investigation is ongoing, with the potential of a superseding indictment in opposition to Diddy. TMZ broke the story … Diddy was going through potential further costs.

The feds say they collected terabytes of e-data throughout their searches of Diddy’s houses in Miami, Los Angeles and New York over the past a number of months … and, they’re nonetheless sifting by means of all of it.

The decide mentioned Diddy will stay behind bars.

A courtroom sketch exhibits Diddy’s mom blowing her son kisses … this whereas he gestures to her with shackles on his legs.

The trial has been scheduled for Might 5, 2025, with three weeks for the federal government case, and the protection will want about one week. The subsequent convention is scheduled for December 18.

Diddy regarded fairly pleased in court docket Thursday– all of his children had been current and his mother was there, who flew in from Florida. After proceedings ended, all of them filed out arm in arm.

The rap producer and his dream authorized group earlier arrived in New York Metropolis’s Southern District Court docket Thursday after submitting a movement to expedite the feds handing over their proof within the case.

Diddy’s group — now consisting of two extra attorneys, Anthony Ricco and Alexandra Shapiro — just lately filed one other movement as effectively … asking for bail for the third time since his arrest in the course of September at a elaborate NYC lodge.

Our sources say Ricco is named one of many best trial legal professionals within the nation whereas Shapiro is without doubt one of the greatest appellate legal professionals training right now.

As you recognize … Diddy’s at the moment locked up in MDC Brooklyn — a notoriously unhealthy jail in NYC — the place he is awaiting trial on costs of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and kidnapping.

In his attraction for bail, Diddy’s legal professionals have argued he is not a flight danger regardless of the federal authorities’s case in opposition to him. Two completely different judges have already denied his bail.

In a movement filed Wednesday evening, Diddy’s legal professionals accuse the feds of orchestrating the leak of the notorious video of Diddy beating Cassie to CNN.

Diddy’s additionally coping with a ton of civil points as effectively … with lawyer Tony Buzbee just lately saying extra celebs will likely be sued alongside Diddy — and, Buzbee’s representing many individuals who’ve leveled allegations in opposition to the star. He is denied all these allegations.

The Diddy grand jury continues to be assembly … listening to testimony from folks and nonetheless mulling over potential costs.