Prosecutors Deny Leaking Diddy Assault Video, Did not Have Clip at Time

The assault video exhibiting Diddy beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura wasn’t launched by the feds, they declare … saying CNN bought it from another person — and, Diddy’s arguments claiming in any other case are straight-up false.

Prosecutors filed a movement in U.S. District Court docket in opposition to a movement Diddy filed earlier this month alleging he believed the federal government gave the video to the favored cable information channel again in Might … and, they principally say this cannot be true ‘trigger they did not even have it but.

In accordance with prosecutors, federal brokers had looked for the video early within the investigation, nevertheless it had mysteriously disappeared from the lodge’s server … and did not crop up once more till CNN launched the footage on Might 17.

As we reported … in a earlier submitting, Diddy’s workforce blames unnamed brokers within the Division of Homeland Safety … who they are saying are a possible supply of the leaks — stating DHS brokers are sometimes quoted in information tales about Diddy’s case.

Federal prosecutors level out far more folks than federal brokers had entry to the tape … with lodge staff, the safety workforce contracted on the lodge, and even members of Diddy’s employees may have leaked the video as a substitute.

The feds insist there isn’t any want for an evidentiary listening to into whether or not prosecutors leaked the clip.

Diddy’s nonetheless locked up in federal detention in Brooklyn whereas awaiting the trial in his legal case. He faces costs of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion, and transportation to interact in prostitution. He is additionally coping with dozens of civil fits.