Overview
- U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian denied Combs’s bid for an acquittal or new trial this week, keeping the Mann Act convictions in place.
- The government asks for at least 135 months and a $500,000 fine, the defense urges a 14‑month sentence, and the U.S. Probation Office recommends roughly five to seven years.
- Prosecutors cite violence, coercion and a power imbalance, with letters from Cassie Ventura, a former assistant known as “Mia,” and others describing lasting trauma and fear of retaliation.
- Combs was convicted on two counts of transporting individuals for prostitution and acquitted of racketeering and sex‑trafficking charges after a summer trial.
- He has been jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since September 2024 and will receive credit for time served, with appeals expected after the Oct. 3 Manhattan sentencing.