Diddy was trying to influence witnesses and the prospective jury of his peers while behind bars, so say prosecutors who filed legal docs in an attempt to justify raiding his jail cell.
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07They were a rapper that we all know.
00:10Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:15Well, Diddy is fuming over something that went down in MDC, Brooklyn,
00:21where he's being held without bail until his trial begins.
00:26This supposedly went down last month.
00:28Right, and what he's upset about is at some point when he was out of his cell,
00:33the feds conducted a raid.
00:36Now, it is a federal detention center,
00:39and so raiding cells sounds like something that they would do on some regular basis,
00:45but they're being called out over this because of the documents that were in his cell
00:51that they obviously had access to during this raid.
00:56And so what Diddy's lawyer is saying is they seized, among other things,
01:02his legal strategy, that he had notes about his legal strategy in this case,
01:08and that is privileged information.
01:10And according to his lawyer,
01:12the lawyer believes that the prison officials gave all of that to prosecutors,
01:19which would be unbelievable if that actually happened.
01:24So that is the allegation that Diddy's lawyer is making.
01:28The feds have just answered what they say actually went down,
01:33and I've got to tell you, there's some of this that doesn't make sense.
01:36But they say this was not a raid targeting Diddy,
01:40and that this was a preplanned sweep.
01:44In fact, they say it was planned before Diddy even got into that,
01:48because he got there in September.
01:49Now, we should say that the prison is saying,
01:53yeah, I mean, he came to us in September,
01:56long before we planned this raid for the safety of the inmates and the staff.
02:03Well, one question is this.
02:05If they're concerned about the safety and the staff,
02:08and say this is back in June,
02:10why are they waiting five months to conduct the raid?
02:13So that part, honestly, to me, doesn't make sense.
02:17It does not make sense to me.
02:19I'm not going to pretend I know how the administration of MDC Brooklyn goes down.
02:25They can go in whenever they want.
02:27They don't need a search warrant.
02:28They can.
02:29And they wait five months, and they're worried about safety?
02:31So that part's not working.
02:33But there's something more fundamental, Derek.
02:35Yeah.
02:36What they're saying in this document is also that they believe that Diddy,
02:39and this relates to the bail hearing,
02:41is trying to intimidate witnesses and maybe obstruct justice in some ways.
02:45And they say he's been using the monitored telephone lines in the prison,
02:49as well as the text messages system in the prison.
02:52And they are referencing this about the bail hearing,
02:55but they're doing it in this motion about this sweep.
02:57And when they went into his cell, they said they looked at a bunch of stuff.
03:00They said on his bunk was a manila folder titled legal.
03:04It had the word legal on it.
03:05They said they felt it for contraband, but then put it to the side,
03:08because they said this must be a legal document.
03:10This is probably privileged.
03:11We're not even going to look at it further.
03:13But then they saw an address book and a notebook.
03:15And what they did was they took pictures of that address book and notebook,
03:18and they turned those pictures of those items over to a filter team,
03:22which is looking to see whether items are privileged.
03:25And the filter team went through it.
03:26They said they redacted the stuff.
03:27And then what was redacted, the redacted materials,
03:30were then turned over to prosecutors.
03:31So they did turn over documents to prosecutors.
03:33They turned over photographs from the notebook,
03:36which they said contained information about music and whatnot.
03:39Here's the thing about it.
03:41If they say this is a general raid that was not targeting Diddy,
03:44that was planned long before Diddy came in,
03:46why in the document the feds just filed,
03:50why did they start by talking about these suspicious third-party
03:55communications that Diddy specifically is having,
03:59almost using that to justify what they did in his cell?
04:03They're saying-
04:04Well, hold on.
04:05Hold on.
04:06What is the motion that they've filed?
04:08They didn't file a motion.
04:11It's a response to the allegation by Diddy's lawyer that they have seized
04:17privileged information about his legal strategy.
04:20And I'm not understanding.
04:22So if they are saying this was a general raid,
04:27why are they so specific about the alleged misdeeds of Diddy behind bars?
04:34I'm just having trouble with that.
04:36Yeah.
04:37I mean, it sounds like he's been using monitored lines,
04:39and maybe they learned some information and then wanted to look further
04:41into that.
04:42But to your point, that wouldn't be necessarily a pre-planned raid.
04:44The problem with this, though, is they don't really need a justification.
04:47It doesn't need to be pre-planned.
04:48They can go in and talk to his cell if they think he's intimidating witnesses.
04:51Unless they're giving prosecutors the defense's legal strategy,
04:55and then it's a huge problem, which is what Diddy's lawyer is saying.
04:59You're 100% right.
05:00That would be gigantic prosecutorial misconduct and really grounds to
05:03dismiss the case if they overreach in those ways.
05:05So they're saying, we certainly didn't do that.
05:07We're going to do this above board and by our protocol.
05:09But it remains to be seen what the judge thinks of all this.
05:12Alana Nicole from Los Angeles.
05:14And, Harvey, I agree with you.
05:15This whole thing sounds like a mess.
05:17I feel like it's kind of like a cover-up on the Fed side.
05:20And I don't really know what's going on.
05:22And I've seen enough crime TV to know that something's not right here.
05:26I get it.
05:27You watch a lot of Dateline.
05:29I get it.
05:30So do I.
05:31Maybe Law & Order, mixing some Law & Order in there too.
05:32Yeah.
05:33I don't know.