Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer mentioned they’ve reached out to President Donald Trump‘s administration relating to a possible pardon.
Final month, the music mogul was discovered responsible on two expenses of transportation to interact in prostitution, however was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy expenses.
“It’s my understanding that we’ve reached out and had conversations in reference to a pardon,” lawyer Nicole Westmoreland informed CNN on Tuesday. Her feedback got here a day after U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian denied Combs’ bid to be launched from jail as he awaits sentencing in October.
In Might, previous to Combs’ conviction, Trump mentioned throughout a press convention that he “would definitely have a look at the details” relating to the mogul’s case, as he hadn’t “been watching it too intently.”
Then, when he was requested about whether or not he would pardon Combs once more final week throughout an interview with Newsmax, Trump responded, “I used to be very pleasant with him, I bought together with him nice and he appeared like a pleasant man. I didn’t know him nicely. However after I ran for workplace, he was very hostile.”
The president added that whereas “we don’t wish to have issues cloud our judgment,” Combs’ “horrible statements” about him previously make pardoning him “tougher to do.”
Regardless of Trump’s newest remarks on a possible pardon, Westmoreland informed CNN that Combs “is a really hopeful particular person, and I consider that he stays hopeful” about his probabilities.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to the White Home, however they declined to remark.
After a jury acquitted Combs on his most critical expenses, the hip-hop mogul now faces a most sentence of 20 years, whereas he was beforehand dealing with as much as life in jail. The 2 prostitution-related offenses underneath the Mann Act carry a most sentence of 10 years every.