A lawyer for Sean ‘Diddy’ Coombs has blamed racism for his shopper’s downfall as he awaits trial on intercourse trafficking fees rom a New York jail cell.
Lawyer Marc Agnifilo, featured within the documentary TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, claims that the federal authorities particularly focused rapper due to his race.
“[The government] is not any buddy traditionally of the profitable Black man, okay, none,” Agnifilio mentioned. “They usually begin making this case, in my view, as a takedown of a profitable Black man.”
“That is the federal government scrutinizing his enterprise, scrutinizing his taxes, he does every part proper,” he continued. ‘What’s the final vestige, we’re going to go into his bed room as a result of perhaps we don’t like the way in which he’s having intercourse.”
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Diddy is going through fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking, and transporting people for prostitution. Within the Justice Division’s indictment, he’s accused of organizing occasions the place ladies had been coerced into drug-fueled sexual actions.
Allegations additionally embrace kidnapping, bodily abuse, and bribery, in addition to abuse in opposition to minors. Diddy has denied all fees and has pledged to show his innocence.
Agnifilio added that Diddy needs “to combat this case not only for himself, however for others in an identical place who’re additionally going through authorities persecution.”
“I don’t know that I might maintain him off the stand,” he continued. “I believe he’s very keen to inform his story. And I believe he’ll inform each a part of his story.”
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Federal brokers reportedly seized 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant throughout raids on Diddy’s houses in Miami and Los Angeles earlier this 12 months.
Marc Agnifilo has dismissed the declare, explaining that the artist merely likes to buy in bulk. “I do not suppose it was 1,000,” he told The New York Post. “I believe it was rather a lot. I imply, there’s a Costco proper down the road. I believe People purchase in bulk, as we all know.”
Regardless of protesting his innocence, the 54-year-old is claimed to be on suicide watch as he stares down the opportunity of a long time, if not the remainder of his life in jail.