Prosecutors filed an expanded indictment in opposition to Sean Combs on Thursday during which they accused the music mogul of coercing two extra girls into business intercourse acts and of dangling a lady over an condo balcony.
Mr. Combs, 55, has been held in a Brooklyn jail for the reason that preliminary indictment in September charged him with intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He has pleaded not responsible and his attorneys have asserted his innocence.
The brand new expenses are a part of a superseding indictment that was returned by a grand jury, in keeping with paperwork filed in Federal District Court docket in Manhattan.
A lot of the new indictment mirrors the one initially filed, however it accuses Mr. Combs of transporting two extra girls to have interaction in prostitution. It additionally extends the interval of alleged racketeering conspiracy — which, prosecutors say, entails a “felony group” chargeable for crimes together with kidnapping and drug offenses — again to 2004, as a substitute of 2008.
Prosecutors stated in court docket papers that they don’t count on the brand new allegations to decelerate court docket proceedings. Mr. Combs’s trial is scheduled to begin in Might.
Ben Sisario contributed reporting.