President Trump stated Monday that Sean “Diddy” Combs had requested a presidential pardon, his remark coming simply days after the convicted rap mogul was sentenced to greater than 4 years in jail for transporting his former girlfriends and male industrial intercourse staff throughout the nation for wicked intercourse events distinguished by drug use and violence.
“I have a lot of people who have asked me for pardons,” Trump informed reporters on the White Home. “I call him ‘Puff Daddy,’ has asked me for a pardon.”
Combs, 55, was sentenced to 50 months in jail on Friday following his July conviction on two prostitution offenses alleging he violated the Mann Act. Manhattan Federal Decide Arun Subramanian stated the mogul had abused the facility and management he wielded over the lives of girls he “professed to love dearly,” in ruthless “subjugation” that went on for some 15 years.
He stated there was “massive” proof of Combs’ abusive habits at so-called “freak-offs,” the marathon sexual performances he orchestrated — documented in “images of gashes, bruises, broken doors,” and photographs of him savagely beating Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
Attorneys and representatives for Combs didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Monday. Along with his felony matter, the pardon-seeking mogul faces greater than 100 lawsuits within the civil courts containing allegations of sexual violence and exploitation courting again many years. He has denied the claims.
Barring a pardon, Combs is hoping to be despatched to FCI Fort Dix, in line with a submitting by his legal professionals Monday. His authorized workforce requested Subramanian to advocate to the Bureau of Prisons that the mogul serve his time period on the low-security federal jail in New Hanover Township, New Jersey, due to its drug dependancy applications “and any other available educational and occupational programs.”
Trump didn’t say when Diddy made the request, however revealed the disgraced entrepreneur was looking for his assist in response to a query about whether or not he would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, who has nearly no different method out of jail after the U.S. Supreme Courtroom denied overview of her intercourse trafficking conviction earlier Monday.
“I’ll take a look at it,” Trump stated. “I wouldn’t consider it or not consider it. I don’t know anything about it, but I will speak to the DOJ.”
Maxwell is the one one who has been criminally tried and convicted of facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s yearslong sexual abuse and exploitation of teenage ladies and younger girls.
