Feds raid Sean Combs properties in LA, Miami on New York warrants

Federal brokers on Monday raided properties owned by hip hop music mogul Sean Combs in Los Angeles and Miami, NBC Information reported, citing sources.

The Division of Homeland Safety brokers had been licensed to go looking the properties by warrants issued in Manhattan federal courtroom, legislation enforcement sources stated.

A supply aware of the scenario advised NBC that three girls and one man have been interviewed in New York by federal authorities in connection to a probe involving doable intercourse trafficking, sexual assault, the solicitation and distribution of unlawful narcotics and firearms associated to 54-year-old Combs, who’s also called “Diddy,” “Puff Daddy,” and “P. Diddy.”

Interviews with three extra girls, recognized as “Jane Does,” are scheduled.

“Earlier at present, Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) New York executed legislation enforcement actions as a part of an ongoing investigation, with help from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our native legislation enforcement companions,” Homeland Safety stated in an announcement to NBC 4 Los Angeles.

Combs’ lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from CNBC.

Douglas Wigdor, a New York lawyer for the singer Cassie Ventura, who rapidly settled a bombshell lawsuit towards Combs final fall accusing him of raping and intercourse trafficking her, stated he was additionally representing a “Jane Doe” within the federal probe of him.

“We’ll at all times help legislation enforcement when it seeks to prosecute those who have violated the legislation,” Wigdor stated in an announcement.

“Hopefully, that is the start of a course of that can maintain Mr. Combs liable for his wicked conduct,” the lawyer stated.

The raids come a month after a music producer named Rodney “Li Rod’ Jones filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal courtroom claiming that Combs sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him whereas he was dwelling and touring with Combs.

Combs was sued in the identical courtroom 4 months in the past by Cassie.

Cassie’s go well with stated that in 2005, when she was 19 years outdated, Combs lured her into an expert relationship by signing her to his label, Unhealthy Boy Information, and inside a number of years induced her right into a sexual relationship, and launched her “to a way of life of extreme alcohol and substance abuse and required her to obtain illicit prescriptions to fulfill his personal addictions.”

The go well with claimed Combs raped Cassie in her dwelling after she tried to depart him, “blew up” one other man’s automotive after studying of his romantic curiosity in her and sometimes beat and kicked her.

Cassie and Combs agreed to settle her grievance for undisclosed phrases only a day after she filed the go well with.

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