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Lawyers for Sean Combs allege US government leaked assault footage to CNN

Legal team claim footage of rapper physically assaulting ex-girlfriend was passed on by Department for Homeland Security, which prosecutors deny

Federal prosecutors deny that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leaked the footage of the assault against Ventura at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, which was obtained by CNN, and aired in May. His lawyers specifically refer to the Ventura footage in the new memo, saying: “The videotape was leaked to CNN for one reason alone: to mortally wound the reputation and the prospect of Sean Combs successfully defending himself against these allegations. The memo also claims that federal raids in March on Combs’s properties in Miami and Los Angeles were “specifically designed to be public spectacles of brutality and were not primarily focused merely on acquiring potential evidence”.

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