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Diddy could possibly be a free man as early as this week with the assistance of President Donald Trump.
In response to TMZ, Trump is contemplating commuting the Dangerous Boy mogul’s four-year jail sentence on prostitution-related expenses.
A high-ranking White Home official instructed the publication that the president, who has rubbed shoulders with Puffy quite a few occasions over time, is “vacillating” on a commutation.
“We’re instructed a number of the W.H. workers are urging Trump to not commute the sentence,” TMZ reviews. “However, our supply states the plain — “Trump will do what he needs,” and we’re instructed Trump might set Diddy free as early as this week.”
Diddy was sentenced earlier this month to 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution this previous summer time.
Days later, Diddy’s authorized staff reached out to the president in hopes of securing a commutation or pardon. Trump himself confirmed this on October 6, telling reporters contained in the Oval Workplace: “Lots of people have requested me for pardons. I name him Puff Daddy, [he] has requested me for a pardon.”
The mogul’s attorneys are additionally exploring an enchantment to his sentence, which they’ve referred to as unfairly prolonged and improperly primarily based on the extra severe racketeering and intercourse trafficking allegations of which he was acquitted.
Diddy is moreover campaigning to serve his sentence at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security jail in New Jersey, which he claims is the finest place for him to “handle [his] drug abuse points” and “maximize household visitation and rehabilitative efforts.”
Nevertheless, the decide who oversaw his high-profile trial argued that the disgraced mogul ought to do his arduous time as near the New York metropolitan space as doable.
Federal prosecutors have taken “no place” on the place the 55-year-old ought to be shipped off to. Finally, the choice belongs to the Bureau of Prisons.
All this could possibly be irrelevant, after all, if Trump intervenes in Diddy’s favor. And what a bombshell second it will be if he does.
