09/17/2024
Puff Daddy ✔👀
SOME OF THE Grand Jury charges: 👀
d. Members and associates of the Combs Enterprise, including COMBS' security personnel, at times carried fi****ms. On more than one occasion, COMBS himself carried or brandished fi****ms to intimidate and threaten others, including victims of and witnesses to his abuse. In or about March 2024, during searches of COMBS' residences in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California, law enforcement seized fi****ms and ammunition, including three AR15s with defaced serial numbers, as well as a drum magazine.
e. Members and associates of the Combs Enterprise enabled COMBS' control over victims by following his directions regarding financial payments to victims, advancing or suppressing the victims' career opportunities, and acquiring the controlled substances COMBS used to keep the victims compliant. Members and associates of the Combs Enterprise at times witnessed COMBS' violence toward the victims, or the victims' injuries caused by Combs, without intervening. Instead, members and associates of the Combs Enterprise helped conceal the violence and abuse by, among other things, assisting COMBS in monitoring and preventing victims from leaving locations, such as hotels or COMBS' residences. These occasions included instances in
which a victim was required to remain in hiding—sometimes for several days at a time—to recover from injuries COMBS inflicted, without being publicly observed. Members and associates of the Combs Enterprise also assisted COMBS in locating and contacting victims who attempted to flee his abuse.
f. When employees, witnesses to his abuse, or others threatened COMBS' authority or reputation, COMBS and members and associates of the Enterprise engaged in acts of violence, threats of violence, threats of financial and reputational harm, and verbal abuse. These acts of violence included kidnapping and arson. In addition, on multiple occasions, COMBS threw both objects and people, as well as hit, dragged, choked, and shoved others.
g. When COMBS authority or reputation was threatened by the possibility of negative publicity or legal or law enforcement action against him, including in or about late 2023 following public allegations of COMBS' crimes, COMBS and members and associates of the Enterprise pressured witnesses and victims, including through attempted bribery, to stay silent and not report what they experienced or knew to law enforcement. On phone calls, COMBS and other members and associates of the Enterprise, among other things, provided these victims and witnesses with a false narrative of events in an effort to conceal COMBS' crimes. COMBS caused
these calls to be recorded on at least two occasions.
The Racketeering Conspiracy
13. From at least in or about 2008, through on or about the date of the filing of this Indictment, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a "Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy,” a/k/a “PD,” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, and others known and unknown, being persons employed by and associated with the Combs Enterprise described in paragraphs 6 through 12 of this Indictment, an enterprise engaged in, and the activities of which affected, interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together and with each other to violate the racketeering laws of the United States, to wit, Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962(c), that is, to conduct and participate, directly and indirectly, in the conduct of the affairs of the Combs Enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, as that term is defined in Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961 and 1961(5), consisting of:
a. multiple acts involving kidnapping, chargeable under the following provisions of state law: California Penal Code § 207 (kidnapping), California Penal Code §§ 21 (a),
664 (attempt), California Penal Code § 31 (aiding and abetting), and California Penal Code § 182
b. multiple acts involving arson, chargeable under the following provisions of state law : California Penal Code § 451 (arson), California Penal Code §§ 21(a), 664 (attempt), California Penal Code § 31 (aiding and abetting), and California Penal Code § 182 (conspiracy);
C. multiple acts involving bribery, chargeable under the following provisions of state law: California Penal Code § 137(a) (bribery of a witness) , California Penal Code §§ 21(a), 664 (attempt), California Penal Code § 31 (aiding and abetting), and California Penal Code § 182 (conspiracy);
d. multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512
(Relating to tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant);
e. multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1589
and 2 (relating to forced labor);
f. multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591 and 2 (relating to s*x trafficking);
g. multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2421, 2422, and 2 (relating to transportation and inducement to travel for purposes of prostitution and other illegal s*xual activities); and
h. multiple offenses involving the possession with intent to distribute, or distribution of narcotics and controlled substances, including co***ne, oxycodone, alprazolam, 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, and ketamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections
841(a)(1) , (b)( 1)(C), (b)(1 )(E), (b)(2), and 846 (distribution and possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to do the same), and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2 (aiding, abetting, and
willfully causing).
14. It was a part of the conspiracy that SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy,” a/k/a “ PD , ” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, agreed that a conspirator would
commit at least two acts of racketeering activity in the conduct of the affairs of the Combs Enterprise.
Notice of Special Sentencing Factor
15. From at least in or about 2009, up to and including in or about 2018, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, as part of his agreement to conduct and participate in the conduct of the affairs of the Combs Enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a "Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “ P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy, ” a/k/a “PD ,” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, agreed to, in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, advertise, maintain, patronize, and solicit by any means a person, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that means of force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion, as described in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1591(e)(2), and any combination of such means, would be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial s*x act, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1591(a)(1) and (b)(1). (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962(d).)
COUNT TWO (S*x Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion)
(Victim-1)
The Grand Jury further charges:
16. From at least in or about 2009, up to and including in or about 2018 , in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “ P. Diddy,” a/k/a
"Diddy," a/k/a “PD,” a/k/a “Love," the defendant, in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, knowingly recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised,
maintained, patronized, and solicited by any means a person, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that means of force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion, as described in Title 18, United
States Code, Section 1591(e)(2), and any combination of such means, would be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial s*x act, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the same, to wit, COMBS recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, and maintained a person ("Victim-1"), and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused Victim-1 , to engage in
commercial s*x acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim- 1 was engaging in commercial s*x acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion. (Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591 (a)(1), (b)(1), 1594(a), and 2.)
COUNT THREE
(Transportation to Engage in Prostitution)
The Grand Jury further charges:
17. From at least in or about2009, up to and including in or about 2024, in the Southern
District of New York and elsewhere, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a "Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy," a/k/a
“Diddy,” a/k/a "“ PD,” a/k/a “Love,” the defendant, knowingly transported an individual in interstate and foreign commerce with intent that the individual engage in prostitution, and
attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the same, to wit, COMBS transported, aided and abetted, and willfully caused the transportation of female victims and commercial s*x workers
in interstate and foreign commerce on multiple occasions with the intent that they engage in prostitution.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2421 (a) and 2.)
FORFEITURE ALLEGATIONS
As a result of committing the offense alleged in Count One of this Indictment, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “PuffDaddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy,” a/k/a "PD,” a/k/a “Love,"
the defendant, shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1963, any and all interests the defendant acquired or maintained in violation of Title 18, United
States Code, Section 1962; any and all interests in, securities of, claims against, and property or contractual rights of any kind affording a source of influence over, the enterprise named and
described herein which the defendant established, operated, controlled, conducted, and participated in the conduct of, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962; and any
and all property constituting and derived from proceeds obtained, directly and indirectly, said offense, including but not limited to a sum of money in United States currency representing the
amount of proceeds traceable to the commission of said offense.
19. As a result of committing the offense alleged in Count Two of this Indictment, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “ P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy, " a/k/a "PD,” a/k/a "Love," the defendant, shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1594, any and all property, real and personal, involved in, used, or intended to be used to commit or to facilitate the commission of said offense and any and all property traceable to such property; any and all property, real and personal, constituting or derived from proceeds obtained, directly or indirectly, as a result of said offense, including but not limited to a sum of money in United States currency representing the amount of property involved in said offense and proceeds traceable to the commission of said offense. As a result of committing the offense alleged in Count Three of this Indictment, SEAN COMBS, a/k/a “Puff Daddy,” a/k/a “P. Diddy,” a/k/a “Diddy,” a/k/a “PD, ” a/k/a "Love,"
the defendant, shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to (i) Title 18, United States Code, Section 2428, any and all property, real and personal, constituting or derived from proceeds obtained,
directly or indirectly, as a result of said offense; and any and all property, real or personal, that was used or intended to be used to commit or facilitate the commission of said offense, and (ii) Title
18, United States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461, any and all property, real and personal, that constitutes or is derived from proceeds traceable to the
commission of said offense, including but not limited to a sum of money in United States currency representing the amount of proceeds traceable to the commission of said offense.
Substitute Assets Provision
21. If any of the above-described forfeitable property, as a result of any act or omission of the defendant:
a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence.
b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third person;
c. has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the Court;
d. has been substantially diminished in value; or
e. has been commingled with other property which cannot be subdivided without difficulty. It is the intent of the United States, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1963(m), Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p), and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), to seek forfeiture of any other property of the defendant up to the value of the above forfeitable property.
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