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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Faces New Sex Trafficking Charges From Prosecutors as Trial Looms
Diddy is facing new sex trafficking charges as the trial in his case looms. Sean Combs now has five charges against him, including racketeering.
Federal prosecutors have unveiled an updated indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, adding new charges to the sex trafficking and racketeering case just over a month before trial. In a superseding indictment filed Thursday (April 3) in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors made several tweaks to the sweeping case against Combs, which claims that the hip-hop mogul ran a sprawling criminal operation aimed at satisfying his need for “sexual gratification.” In technical terms, prosecutors built much of their case on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — the federal “RICO” statute that aims to combat the Mafia and other criminal enterprises.
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