Last week, it was reported that music industry insiders predicted President-elect Donald Trump will pardon his good friend Sean Combs if the music mogul is convicted next year.
Trump is planning to oust Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
Williams indicted Combs in September on charges of sëx trafficking and conspiracy to promote prostitution. Combs is being held without bond in a federal detention center in Brooklyn awaiting trial set for May 5, 2025.
Williams also filed a public corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams – another friend of Trump’s.
Adams is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and receiving campaign contributions from foreign nationals.
He is also accused of defrauding NYC taxpayers of $10 million through allegedly fraudulent campaign funds.
Trump won the Nov. 5 presidential election by a landslide. According to sources, he may help Combs get out of jail before the rapper’s trial next year.
Trump plans to clean house at the Department of Justice and the FBI after he takes office in January. DOJ employees are reportedly “scrambling” to file early retirement. Trump has said he will fire special counsel Jack Smith who is prosecuting his Florida documents case.
Smith asked a federal judge to drop the documents case against Trump. Smith also plans to resign from his position before Trump is sworn into office.
Williams was nominated in 2021 by President Joe Biden, making Williams the first Black American to lead the prosecutor’s office, and the youngest, at age 41.
The Southern District of NY has secured historic convictions, including the fallen crypto king, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Bankman-Fried and Combs are being held in the same VIP area of the MDC federal lockup in Brooklyn.
