Popular music executive Diddy is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, October 3. Federal prosecutors have insisted that Combs deserves to be sentenced to at least 11 years and three months in prison for his convictions for transportation to engage in prostitution.
Combs’ attorneys, however, urged Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence him to no longer than 14 months in prison, only a few months more than the time he has already served in jail since his arrest in September 2024.
However, according to former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, Diddy, who was recently acquitted of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy during an eight-week trial, will most likely get a sentence between 4 and 5 years.
He stated that he does not believe Diddy would be given the 11 years prosecutors are clamouring for, because that would be more than the maximum punishment for the prostitution counts.
“I don’t think he’s getting the 11 years that the government is recommending. That is more than the statutory max for the prostitution counts,” he said.
Rahmani further noted that detaining the Billionaire despite acquitting him of more serious charges makes him believe Diddy would get 5 years at least as punishment.
He concluded by saying that there is convincing evidence that will ensure Sean Combs gets more than months in prison.
“If the judge was so inclined he would’ve released him on bail after the verdict. The fact that he kept him detained, even though he was acquitted of a more serious racketeering and sex trafficking counts, leads me to believe that he’s going to impose a sentence. Maybe not the full amount the government is asking for, but a split the baby type sentence. So that’s why I think five years ends up being in the middle.
We’re talking about the drugs. We’re talking about the violence. Even though he was acquitted of running a criminal enterprise and forcing these women to have sex through coercion. Now there’s a lot of bad evidence that came out with respect to violence and drug use. So, I think the judge is going to treat this like more than just a simple prosecution case,” he added.
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