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On November 16, 2023 a lawsuit against Sean Combs went live in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Within days it was settled.

But the 35-page complaint remained in the PACER system. Its first page said, in red, "Trigger Warning: This document contains highly graphic information of a sexual nature, including sexual assault." Inner City Press covered it, and other cases filed in 2024: Lil Rod Jones, Adria English, Jane Doe, Crystal McKinney.

On September 17, 2024 Sean Combs was brought by US Marshals before SDNY Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky. He had been arrested the night before in a hotel on 57th Street and now he, through his lawyer Marc Agnifilo, was asking to be released on $50 million bond.

Just prior to the bail fight, US Attorney Damian Williams held a press conference in 26 Federal Plaza. Inner City Press went, and asked Williams if his office would be seeking pre-trial detention on Combs (yes) and how the case compared to the prosecution of R. Kelly, which Inner City Press had also cover. This question, Williams did not answer. But we will try to, later in this text.

The bail fight before Judge Tarnofsky was detailed. Inner City Press live tweeted it - the thread is below, with background inserted about the cases and incidents the lawyers alluded to, from comparisons to the Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Ray cases, to the arson of Kid Cudi's car and bust-ups of hotel rooms in New York and Los Angeles. In many places, the prosecutors' allegations track the civil cases against Combs that Inner City Press has been covering - that is noted as well. An intro:

II. Waters Part on Foley Square

Royalty in an SUV
Part the waters of Foley Square
This judge should understand
And not crucify one of his own

Sage counsel proffers
Sage Intelligence guards
3 at 3 West Star Island
Camera filming everything

Epstein too
Tried to offer a big bond
His freak-offs in lawyers' meeting room
Then the cold corpse
Out to Gold Street - ain't
Going out like that

This is Part I of US v. Sean Combs.