Sean “Diddy” Combs Loses Appeal For Release On Bond

The New York Times reports:

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Sean Combs to remain in jail until his trial for sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, rejecting an appeal by the music mogul’s lawyers requesting that he be released on bail.

At Mr. Combs’s arraignment on Tuesday, a magistrate judge rejected Mr. Combs’s bail request and ordered him detained, citing his history of substance abuse and alleged violence, prosecutors’ accusations of witness tampering and the serious nature of the sex trafficking charge.

In appealing that decision on Wednesday to a district judge, Andrew L. Carter Jr., Mr. Combs’s lawyers argued once again that he had been cooperating with the prosecutors’ investigation for months, had voluntarily surrendered his passport and had paid off an $18 million mortgage on his house in

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