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

The assault video displaying Diddy beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura wasn’t launched by the feds, they declare … saying CNN received 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 mainly say this cannot be true ‘trigger they did not even have it but.

In keeping with prosecutors, federal brokers had looked for the video early within the investigation, nevertheless it had mysteriously disappeared from the resort’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 group blames unnamed brokers within the Division of Homeland Safety … who they are saying are a probable 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 resort staff, the safety group contracted on the resort, and even members of Diddy’s employees may have leaked the video as an alternative.

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 prison case. He faces fees 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.