Judge denies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ request to be released to his N.Y. apartment

Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be released on bail before Thanksgiving, a federal judge ruled Wednesday while accusing the hip-hop mogul of violating and looking for ways to skirt prison rules since he was arrested. In a five-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled Combs should not be released on the $50-million bail proposed by his legal team, stating that Combs posed a “serious risk of witness tampering” and had been found to be breaking prison rules, such as paying other inmates for their phone access codes to call people outside of his own approved contact list. “His willingness to skirt [Board of Prison] rules in a way that would make it more difficult for his communications to be monitored is strong evidence that the Court cannot be reasonably assure[d] as to the sufficiency of any condition of release,” Subramanian ruled. The ruling shut down the third attempt by Combs’ attorneys to have him released during his criminal trial. In the latest motion, his attorneys asked that instead of prison he be confined to his three-bedroom apartment in New York City’s Upper West Side with 24-hour surveillance. In their motion, Combs’ legal team argued that the apartment would be “far...