DOJ, Diddy Headed to Sentence Showdown

Sean “Diddy” Combs failed to persuade a federal judge to throw out his prostitution conviction, setting up a hard-to-predict showdown over his sentence before a Manhattan federal judge on Friday.

Judge Arun Subramanian late Tuesday rejected the music mogul’s arguments that his conviction was unconstitutional or fell outside the boundaries of the Mann Act, which criminalizes transporting people across state lines to engage in prostitution.

“Combs doesn’t show that the Mann Act’s text doesn’t plainly apply to him, where the evidence showed that he transported escorts for them to have sex for money,” the judge said.

Combs had argued the ...