Lawyer Marc Agnifilo accused Homeland Safety of leaking video of his shopper Diddy abusing Cassie Ventura to CNN. The federal government denied something to do with the leak in emails obtained by AllHipHop.
“The Authorities didn’t possess the video revealed by CNN previous to its public launch, and the Authorities possessed no surveillance video in any respect from the Intercontinental previous to CNN’s public broadcast,” Assistant U.S. Lawyer Emily Johnson wrote to Agnifilo. “Accordingly, we want to advise you that we take into account any assertion in your movement of a purported Authorities leak associated to the Intercontinental surveillance video to lack religion foundation.”
Agnifilo responded, “I don’t consider you possibly can presumably know what DHS brokers did and didn’t do in regard to this videotape. We’re making it very clear that we consider the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace was not concerned within the leak. Nonetheless, I don’t really feel the identical manner about DHS … We reached out as a gesture of excellent religion and since we genuinely wish to know your perspective. That being mentioned, when you can converse from a place of information in regard to your workplace, I don’t consider you are able to do so in regard to the company.”
Homeland Safety raided Diddy’s properties in March. CNN launched 2016 surveillance footage of Diddy attacking his ex-girlfriend at a lodge in Might. The video corroborated allegations from Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit in opposition to the Hip-Hop mogul.
“To be clear, to our understanding, DHS didn’t have possession of the videotape previous to CNN’s publication of it,” Johnson instructed Diddy’s lawyer. “Solely the Authorities has authority to acquire grand jury materials, and the video broadcast by CNN was not obtained by way of grand jury course of.”
Diddy was arrested for intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution in September. He was denied bail for the third time on Thursday (October 9). His trial is scheduled to start on Might 5, 2025.
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