Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at same NYC lockup as Sam Bankman-Fried

Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s dealing with federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering raps, is sharing area with crypto criminal Sam Bankman-Fried at Brooklyn’s federal lockup.

Each high-profile inmates are within the same unit at the Metropolitan Detention Middle (MDC Brooklyn) — Combs on the recently-filed federal intercourse fees and Bankman-Fried after getting smacked with a 25-year jail sentence within the large FTX cryptocurrency scandal.

Federal jail officers are mum on additional particulars of their incarceration.

“For privateness, security and safety causes, the Federal Bureau of Prisons doesn’t present details about situations of confinement, together with housing assignments or inside safety practices for any explicit incarcerated particular person,” the feds told NBC New York, which first reported the story.

The pair are within the same “barracks-style” wing of the jail, which homes 18 to twenty inmates who want a better degree of safety, in accordance with NBC New York.

Others within the unit embrace authorities snitches, who can be in peril in gen pop.

The Brooklyn facility has been the one federal holding heart in New York Metropolis because the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in Manhattan was shuttered in 2021.

Combs, 54, was arrested at a Big Apple hotel final week and charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, and transportation for the aim of prosecution.

The Unhealthy Boy Data founder was ordered held with out bail after federal prosecutors argued he was an “excessive hazard to the neighborhood.”

Combs pleaded not responsible to the costs.

His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, recommended at a listening to final week that he would push for Combs to be transferred to the Essex County Correctional Facility in New Jersey — however backtracked Monday.

“At this level, there is no such thing as a request from counsel that the courtroom take any motion,” he stated.

Sources additionally dismissed earlier stories that Combs was on suicide watch.

In the meantime, Bankman-Fried, 32, is at the Brooklyn facility pending his enchantment after he was discovered responsible of fraud in November and sentenced to 25 years in March for one of many largest fraud scandals in US historical past.

Prosecutors argued that the crypto cheat and other top executives at his agency stole $8 billion from buyer accounts on the FTX change to make dangerous investments, make unlawful marketing campaign contributions to principally Democrats, purchase ritzy Caribbean properties and even bribe Chinese language officers.

Bankman-Fried’s former lover and a top executive at FTX Caroline Ellison, who testified in opposition to her ex, was sentenced to two years Tuesday with prosecutors asking for leniency resulting from her cooperations.

The Brooklyn federal lockup has housed other high-profile inmates before, together with fallen pop singer R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein cohort Ghislaine Maxwell.