Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a federal choose in New York to pressure the federal government to disclose the identities of people allegedly concerned in his racketeering case.

Combs’ authorized staff claims the obscure accusations make it not possible for him to mount an enough protection.

The costs towards Combs level to his involvement in a sprawling racketeering conspiracy stretching again 16 years.

The indictment accuses him of crimes resembling kidnapping, compelled labor, and intercourse trafficking. Nonetheless, his attorneys assert that the costs lack important particulars, together with the names of the supposed victims.

“Mr. Combs is charged with numerous offenses arising out of allegations that he coerced some people into sexual conduct, however he doesn’t know their identities,” the protection memorandum reads.

The submitting goes on to argue that the allegations originate from “dozens of financially-motivated people” with allegedly false claims of sexual assault.

A few of these folks, in line with the protection, Combs has by no means even personally met.

Central to Combs’ argument is the grievance that the indictment spans from 2008 to 2024 however doesn’t make clear which particular people have been allegedly coerced throughout that point.

His authorized staff believes this lack of precision complicates their skill to sift by means of the numerous quantity of proof the courtroom supplied in discovery.

“The productions are so voluminous that, within the absence of additional data, it’s unclear which parts are even related to the costs,” Diddy’s attorneys argued. “Discovery evaluate below the circumstances is an limitless and not possible activity.”

One among Diddy’s major attorneys, Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, highlighted a vital hurdle in getting ready a protection with out extra clear data.

“Mr. Combs deserves honest discover of the basic nature of the costs so he might defend himself,” Shapiro acknowledged, including that “he can’t fairly put together a protection with out figuring out the identities of the alleged victims.”

Whereas federal prosecutors keep that they’ve complied with offering discovery and different obligatory data, Diddy’s authorized staff views the state of affairs a lot in another way.

They assert that the present degree of element leaves them ill-equipped to counter the “wild and ever-expanding allegations showing within the press” from authorities representatives and civil attorneys.

Diddy’s staff dismissed considerations that revealing victims’ names might pose risks, mentioning that a number of alleged victims and their attorneys have come ahead publicly regardless of any supposed danger.