Feds Say Diddy Is Breaking Rules To Influence Potential Jurors

Diddy has been placing secret phone calls, intimidating witnesses, and planning a public relations strategy meant to taint the jury pool in his upcoming trial, all from inside a federal jail, argued prosecutors in a new memo.The 30-page memo was filed on Friday (November 15) in response to Diddy’s latest attempt to be granted bail. (There is a hearing on the matter scheduled for next Friday, November 22). The document claims that since Diddy has been incarcerated, he has used a variety of means to evade Bureau of Prisons monitoring of his communications, in violation of jail rules, so that he could make calls that evade surveillance and speak to people he wasn’t authorized to reach out to. His methods, the government claims, included “using PAC [phone access code] numbers belonging to other inmates to make calls; using three-way calls to contact other individuals, including individuals who are not on his approved contact list; and using an unauthorized third-party communication system to send messages to numerous individuals, including unauthorized contacts.”Part of the reason for this, the memo continues, was so that Diddy could plan a public relations strategy in order to influence the jury pool. “[T]he defendant is explicit about...