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Sean Combs Paid Inmates to Use Phone Accounts Improperly: Prosecutors

Sean Combs paid fellow inmates to use their phone accounts improperly and orchestrated his birthday video to influence jury pool, prosecutors claim.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is paying other inmates to access their phone accounts and instructing his family members to post “carefully curated” messages on social media in an effort to influence public opinion and obstruct justice ahead of his upcoming trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, federal prosecutors claim. In a new court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege the music mogul, who’s now being housed in a federal detention center in Brooklyn, knowingly violated jail regulations when he used the telephone accounts of at least eight other inmates to make calls since his Sept. 16 arrest in Manhattan. “While attempting to evade law enforcement monitoring, the defendant has, among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool; made efforts to publicly leak materials he views as helpful to his case; and contacted witnesses through third parties.”

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