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. Prosecutors say they have the recordings.
“Seemingly to avoid law enforcement monitoring, the defendant uses other inmates’ PAC numbers to make phone calls to both individuals on the defendant’s…
