Overview

• Combs remains convicted on two interstate transportation for prostitution counts and faces up to 20 years behind bars at his October 3 sentencing
• Attorney Nicole Westmoreland confirmed that Diddy’s legal team has held conversations with White House officials about a presidential pardon
• Mark Geragos publicly praised a pardon as a “great decision” and cited reporting that Trump is seriously considering clemency
• President Trump has offered mixed signals, saying no formal pardon request has arrived but asserting he would review the facts if asked
• Separately, Combs’s lawyers have filed a motion for retrial arguing his conduct amounted to consensual voyeurism rather than prostitution under the statute