Warning of “maggots” in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ food at the the Metropolitan Detention Center, his ruined reputation and career out of the sex-trafficking claims and other charges, “devastating consequences for his children,” a shuttered Hulu series, and over a year behind bars already, the Bad Boy Records founder’s defense team are hard pitching a federal judge to let their client out of jail by Christmas.
Set to be sentenced on October 3 on the two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution Combs was found guilty of by a New York jury on July 2 after a media circus eight-week trial that was a defeat in all by name for prosecutors, the I’ll Be Missing You performer’s attorneys threw everything, a Grammy or two, and the gilded kitchen sink this week at getting their guy sprung ASAP.
“Because of Mr. Combs’s contributions to society and the community, the need to avoid sentencing disparities, and his family circumstances, counsel respectfully submits that, consistent with Section 3553(a), a 14-month sentence with supervised release mandating (1) drug treatment, 2) therapy, and (3) group therapy is the sentence ‘sufficient, but not greater than necessary,; to accomplish the traditional goals of sentencing,” insists a fawningly biographical and sometimes brazen 182-page Sentencing Memorandum submitted on September 22 to Judge Arun Subramanian by admitted domestic abuser and swinger Diddy’s lead lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos.
Doing the math, if Judge Subramanian rejects the U.S. Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York’s expected recommendation of over five years for Combs, the much accused 55-year-old past mogul would serve just under two more months in prison, based on the time the allegedly recovered drug abuser already put in since his September 2024 arrest.
Put in perspective, Combs was once looking at being “incarcerated” for the rest of his life if found guilty on the sex-trafficking and RICO charges that the eight men and four women jury exonerated him for this summer. With that in the review, the distinctly possible sentencing result is now a.k.a. Christmas coming a bit early for Combs
“The Court has a difficult task when fashioning any sentence, but here the right answer could not be more obvious,” the memo states of the man they say has “pursued a life of hard work, love, family, and faith” to great success. “In the past two years, Mr. Combs’s career and reputation have been destroyed. He has served over a year in one of the most notorious jails in America—yet has made the most of that punishment. It is time for Mr. Combs to go home to his family, so he can continue his treatment and try to make the most of the next chapter of his extraordinary life.”
Coming out of a SDNY that has been pillared by the Trump administration since January and saw Combs top prosecutor Maurene Comey (Yes, the now suing daughter of that POTUS foe Comey) fired in late July, the feds will likely file their own sentencing recommendations in the next few days. While both sides are using the federal sentencing guidelines as their blueprint, the defense and the prosecution have very different notions of what make up those recommendations and even what the definition of a “victim” (say in terms of Combs ex Cassie Ventura or the hired “freak off” male escorts) is.
All that is to come next week. This week, September 25 to be precise, will see all the attorneys and Combs back in the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse on Pearl Street for a hearing on post-trial motions. Of the various motions, the one that will attract the most attention and likely take up the most time is Combs’ Hail Mary move to have the jury’s verdict tossed out. The defense assert their client should have never been gone after under the Mann Act and that the feds abuse the statute to their own ends in a case full of overreach.
Not sure, with events and circumstances, not to mention numerous failed bids for bail, that the measured Judge Subramanian is disposed to overturning the rap cart at the 11th hour before sentencing.
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