UPDATED with Combs’ attorney statement: Awaiting his sentencing fate after being found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain behind bars.
In a shocking move by Judge Arun Subramanian mere hours after a New York jury handed federal prosecutors a walloping defeat with acquittal on the most serious of five charges, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, the Bad Boy Records founder was denied bond during a Wednesday afternoon hearing. Having failed repeatedly to secure a $50 million bail since being taken into custody by NYPD and federal agents in September, the “All About the Benjamins” performer has been in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center the past nine months.
