Diddy May Seek Sex Trafficker Ousted After Feds Get His To-Do List

• The raid on Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ prison cell was inappropriate, defense lawyers said in court on Tuesday.
• Photos of Combs’ hand-written to-do list should never have been given to prosecutors, an attorney said.
• The lawyer said he could now request the dismissal of the case or the dismissal of the entire prosecution team.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers, sex trafficking case was dismissed because prosecutors discovered the rap mogul’s handwritten “to do list” he kept in his Brooklyn jail cell.

A to-do list that Combs had jotted down in a white notebook commemorating jailhouse conversations with his lawyers was secretly photographed and then returned to his cell by Bureau of Prisons officials during a raid in late October, an attorney for Combs has alleged. There is a hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.

News obtained by prosecutors have writings It was announced for the first time this week.

Attorney Marc Agnifilo told U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian that the 19-page transcript on the list “lies at the heart of the attorney-client material;” Combs sounded angry as he sat to his left and nodded “yes.”

Agnifilo told the judge that on the defense table was a six-inch stack of folders and paperwork from Combs’ cell, including his actual to-do list. The lawyer waved some papers in the air as he spoke.

“The government now knows potential defense witnesses for the May 5 hearing,” the attorney complained, well before witness names were supposed to be shared. “It gives them an idea on defense and they shouldn’t have that.”

When it was their turn to speak, prosecutors offered a very different description of the 19 pages, arguing instead that they were evidence of Combs’ ongoing attempts to use his money and influence to obstruct justice.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Slavik told the judge at Tuesday’s hearing that Combs’ to-do list includes two highly incriminating jobs, neither of which are protected by attorney-client privilege.

Slavik alleged that one of them “related to the defendant paying a potential witness to ‘find dirt’ on a potential victim.”

The second, he said, involved Combs’ plan to “follow up with a paralegal to determine whether a witness had been defunded.”

In fact, if these two citations were somehow related to attorney-client communications, “they would fall under the criminal-fraud exemption,” Slavik added. By law, attorney-client privilege does not protect communications involving criminal activity.

Those bucket list quotes are now key evidence in the ongoing grand jury investigation into obstruction of justice charges and could be part of a potential new indictment, he said.

“I think it’s clear that this material is outside the defense of a criminal case,” the prosecutor told the judge regarding quotes from the to-do list.

Combs earns multi-million dollar income fashion and recording empire and was one of the first and wealthiest hip-hip entrepreneurs. He has been held without bail since mid-September, when he was arrested and accused of committing physical and sexual violence against multiple victims over decades. Elaborate parties called “freaks”.

At the end of the hearing, the judge asked both sides to prepare written defenses explaining why the 19 pages were privileged or not.

In the meantime, he instructed the prosecution team to delete 19 pages of photographs from their records, at least until a determination of privilege has been made.

The judge also told the prosecution team to ask prison officials to preserve copies of the surveillance video of the search in Combs’ cell.

New details of the raid emerged at Tuesday’s hearing.

Slavik told the judge that the BOP raided the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center without warning prosecutors to seize contraband related to their investigation of Combs and others at the prison.

Prison officials photographed Combs’ papers and then altered them. Following the screening, authorities followed due procedure for handling potentially sensitive attorney-client materials.

The photos were first given to the filter team, a separate group of U.S. attorneys unaffiliated with the Combs prosecution. Slavik told the judge that the filter team then removed all attorney-client material and forwarded the remaining photos to Combs prosecutors.

Combs will appear in court again on Friday after the statement made by his defense team. A third argument for bail. The judge ruled Combs could not apply for controversial bucket list tasks while prosecutors opposed granting him bail.