Diddy avoided the major charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, but now, he may catch an even bigger break via a get out of jail free card.
Deadline spoke to White House officials who say a pardon for Diddy is now being “seriously considered,” after several of the fallen moguls’ friends and associates have asked President Trump to do so.
Now, it’s reportedly not just one of the president’s pipe dreams or “just another Trump weave to an actionable event” because of what he was convicted of.
When he was sentenced in early July, he was found not guilty of the charges that would essentially send him to jail for life, but was convicted on two charges of sex trafficking. Now, as he sits behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he awaits an October sentencing that could lead to him serving only two to three years in federal prison. Plus, any sentence he receives will include time served, but he’s already clamoring to get out on bail after being denied several times.
Still that didn’t stop his defense team from trying again Tuesday, again offering up the $50 million bond while arguing he’s being treated more harshly than others in his position, and no one else in his orbit faces any consequences.
“There has literally never been a case like this one, where a person and his girlfriend arranged for adult men to have consensual sexual relations with the adult long-term girlfriend,” Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo wrote to the judge, according to The New York Times. “Mr. Combs is incarcerated while everyone else involved in this identical conduct – his girlfriends, the [prostitutes], the agency’s leaders, the porn stars and others – walk free, as they should.”
Judge Arun Subramanian has denied the motion several times, citing Diddy as a flight risk and still a danger to his alleged victims.
At the height of Diddy’s trial in May, Trump was first asked about a pardon, and he toyed with the idea of a pardon.
“I would certainly look at the facts if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It wouldn’t have any impact on me.”
See the reaction to Diddy’s legal updates below.
