New elements of the case were revealed against Sean “Didi” Comes on Thursday, as Federal prosecutors expanded their accusation against the hip -hop, saying that he forced two additional women to participate in the sex tracking scheme and guided another woman around a balcony.
The resolved indictment filed in the Manhattan Court increases the number of victims of the alleged sex trafficking from one to three. It also adds four years to the alleged criminal plot, saying that it started in 2004 instead of 2008 and continued until 2024.
The rains, which are held in a federal reformist in Brooklyn, New York, acknowledged that they are not guilty of charges and confirmed that he was innocent of any violations.
The extended indictment does not add accusations to the sprawling indictment in September, which claims that the Bad Boy Entertainment founder has long used his empire to force their victims to have sex in gatherings known as “relief”.
Combs faces three charges: blackmail, sex trafficking, and a violation of the Man’s Law, which prohibits the transfer of someone through state lines for the purpose of prostitution. The 54 -year -old music icon was set for trial on May 5.
“The prosecution’s theory is still defective,” said Mark Agunefilo, a rating lawyer, in response to the expanded indictment. The lawyer pointed out that there are no new charges, and the latest allegations were rejected as “ridiculous” that federal prosecutors were claiming two former “former friends”, but they were prostitutes.
Coms was arrested in September nearly a year after the investigation by the federal authorities. The next day his arrest, the general prosecutors canceled the accusation of the major jury.
This included the “victim -1” indictment, whose allegations were reflected in Cassandra “Cassi” Vinterora, a singer and a former friend of rain filed a lawsuit against him in 2023. The expanded indictment refers to the “victim -2” and “the victim -3” but not It reveals its identities.
He claims that the rain “used strength, threats of strength, and coercion to cause victims, including but not limited to, three victims”, to engage in business business.
Prosecutors claim that, as part of the sexual tracking scheme, nations and his entourage work in violence, abuse, intentional burning and kidnapping. On Thursday, the excessive indictment claimed that during a single kidnapping, the Mongols described a firearm.
The refreshing indictment also refers to the 2016 incident accused of Combs of a woman from a balcony. This claim is like one last year in a lawsuit by Briana Bongolan. The lawsuits say that Bongolan was in the Ventura apartment asleep when Koms arrived and flounded to the door. Once she enters, she claims the lawsuit, grabbed her and grabbed her.
The next Kums trial is expected to last for at least four weeks. In the court files, Agnifilo accused the investigators of the Ministry of Internal Security “a strategic leakage of major materials and secret information, including the intercontinental 2016 video, to control public and potential jury against Mr. Coms.”
Comes Lawyers without success sought to exclude the evidence they say was leaked, including the 2016 video clip, which appears Comles and Fintora in a corridor at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
The video, it was obtained and Posted by cnn In March, Coms appears chasing Ventura under the hallway, kicking it, hitting it and throwing a container on it before dragging it to the door of the room. The video, which was soon virus, confirmed, at least some of the allegations of physical assault against the singer Detailed in a lawsuit November.
Since the first indictment, an increasing number of people filed a lawsuit against combs, accusing him of sexual assault, some of them minors at the time of alleged acts. None of federal allegations includes minors.
