Prosecutors filed an expanded indictment against Sean Combs on Thursday in which they accused the music mogul of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts and of dangling a woman over an apartment balcony.
Mr. Combs, 55, has been held in a Brooklyn jail since the initial indictment in September charged him with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have asserted his innocence.
The new charges are part of a superseding indictment that was returned by a grand jury, according to documents filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Most of the new indictment mirrors the one initially filed, but it accuses Mr. Combs of transporting two additional women to engage in prostitution. It also extends the period of alleged racketeering conspiracy — which, prosecutors say, involves a “criminal organization” responsible for crimes including kidnapping and drug offenses — back to 2004, instead of 2008.
Prosecutors said in court papers that they do not expect the new allegations to slow down court proceedings. Mr. Combs’s trial is scheduled to start in May.
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