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The federal prison intercourse trafficking case towards Sean “Diddy” Combs has been assigned a brand new choose.
On Thursday, a discover within the courtroom docket indicated the case was reassigned to Choose Arun Subramanian, who was first nominated by President Joe Biden in 2022 and took the bench in 2023.
Subramanian spent most of his profession as a civil litigator of complicated disputes on the regulation agency Susman Godfrey. Earlier than becoming a member of the regulation agency, he labored as a regulation clerk for Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
No clarification for the change was given. CNN has reached out to the courtroom, attorneys for Combs, and the US lawyer’s workplace for the Southern District of New York for remark.
Combs’ case was first randomly assigned to Choose Andrew Carter, who was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Carter denied Combs bond and ordered him detained in jail whereas awaiting trial. On the finish of a prolonged courtroom listening to, the choose stated he might discover no circumstances that may make him snug releasing the music mogul in mild of allegations of witness tampering and bodily violence. Combs has appealed the choice.
Combs is presently incarcerated and is being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York whereas awaiting his prison trial.
He was arrested earlier this month and charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and pleaded not responsible to the costs.
CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister contributed to this report.