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Prosecutors Accuse Sean Combs of Trying to Contact Witnesses From Jail

Prosecutions accused Sean Combs of continuing efforts to obstruct the federal racketeering and sex trafficking case against him from a

Prosecutors have focused on a witness named Kalenna Harper, a performer who was in the group Diddy — Dirty Money with Dawn Richard, who filed a lawsuit shortly before Mr. Combs’s arrest that accused him of groping and threatening her. Referring to Ms. Harper as “Witness 2” in court papers, prosecutors said they recovered new evidence about those communications in a recent sweep of the Metropolitan Detention Center, which was part of continuing efforts to address persistent complaints of inhumane conditions at the jail. At M.D.C., Mr. Combs has been living in the same unit as Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto mogul convicted of fraud, sleeping in a dormitory-style room with a group of other defendants and getting access to his family through monitored phone calls and an email system that requires payment.

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