The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York just dropped multiple microphones on incarcerated people Sean Combs.

In addition to rejecting efforts by the Bad Boy Records founder’s defense team to name multiple Combs accusers, prosecutors hit back with a federal grand jury this week.

Unsurprisingly, today, no one from U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ office is talking about what’s going on behind closed doors. A spokesperson for prosecutors contacted by Deadline declined to comment on the latest movements in the Combs case.

But a grand jury will hear new evidence in Combs’ criminal case today, sources say. I was told that new evidence from a male witness would be given as part of this.

For this purpose, new charges or new charges may be brought regarding extortion, sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.

Just hours before the grand jury was to reconvene in the spiraling Combs case, the prosecution filed its case. a long and detailed answer On Wednesday night, we discussed the defense’s request that the names of Combs’ accusers be made public.

In 56 pages of documents describing the defense led by Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, the feds again brushed aside the idea that they leaked 2016 hotel security footage showing Combs beating his then-girlfriend and future short-lived plaintiff, Cassie Ventura. “As the defendant was fully aware, the video was not in the Government’s possession at the time of CNN’s broadcast, and the Government never obtained the video through the grand jury process,” Williams’ lawsuit states.

“Defendant also complains that purported ‘law enforcement sources’ leaked other alleged grand jury materials to the media in several news articles referenced in his newspapers and included in the accompanying table (“Articles Quoted”),” the response document continues. so, noting a Deadline story among the cited Articles, the defense claims are making it difficult for their much-accused clients to get a fair trial next year. “Here too the defendant is holding on to straws. Because Defendant has failed to show that the information in the Articles Cited was grand jury material and has failed to show that Government officials who had access to the grand jury materials leaked the information, he cannot provide the prima facie showing necessary for the relief he seeks.”

This emerges against the background of dozens of women and men over the past year Combs’ accusers He accused them of drugging, beating and threatening them, forcing them to participate in his so-called “frenzies”, and raping them. In a pattern of new filings every week, the civil cases are to some extent parallel to the criminal case and Combs’ appeal of the denial of pretrial release. In fact, Houston attorney Tony Buzbee promises there will soon be over 100 more Combs victims filing their own lawsuits.

Those victims include “Victim-1” of the criminal case, Ventura, who accused Combs of years of harassment and assault in a lawsuit filed last November; The $30 million lawsuit was quickly concluded. More recently, John Doe, represented by Buzbee, alleges that when she was 10, Combs sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan hotel room with the promise of a career in the music industry.

Arrested by the feds on September 15 in the lobby of another New York hotel, Combs was imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He faces life behind bars if convicted A trial that will begin on May 5, 2025.

Heading into the hearing before U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, the government pushed back hard Wednesday, especially in the face of the defense’s desire to unmask accusers and potential witnesses at the trial.

In their petition to the court, they wrote the following:

The Victim Gag Motion should be rejected as an attempt to force the Government to prematurely release its witness list by opening a backdoor to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Indeed, by seeking a preemptive gag order under Local Criminal Rule 23.1 preventing potential witnesses in the criminal case and their attorneys from giving extrajudicial testimony, the defendant is in effect either seeking a blanket injunction to be applied indiscriminately to all individuals with allegations against Combs, or his attorneys or For a more limited order requiring the government to identify its witnesses six months before trial. Not only would such relief be unprecedented, but the defendant should not be allowed to use a local criminal rule as a sword or to evade established case law in this Chamber to muzzle civil litigants whose testimony may or may not be connected to this criminal case.

It is not yet known what Subramanian will decide. However, today the court received “a letter from the Government completing the Government’s application dated 30 October 2024”. Clearly, that letter was not your ordinary correspondence. “After considering the government’s stated reasons for sealing the letter and considering it unilateral, the Court concludes that it is appropriate to consider this letter unilateral and sealed,” Subramanian wrote today.

It is unknown what was in the letter and why it was sealed; Neither the defense nor the feds would comment.