(FILES) Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs arrives for the 53rd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP)
Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the US president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star.
Trump, in an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, also said he does not plan to issue pardons to several other high-profile individuals, including deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
READ ALSO: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Moved To Federal US Prison To Serve Sentence
The 56-year-old Combs was convicted last July of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
A jury acquitted the music mogul of the most serious charges — sex trafficking and racketeering.
Trump told the Times during Wednesday’s interview that Combs had sent him a letter asking for a pardon, but he was not inclined to grant it.
Asked about pardoning Maduro, who was seized by US forces over the weekend and is facing drug trafficking charges, Trump said, “No, I don’t see that.”
In November, Trump pardoned Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of drug trafficking.
Trump also said he did not plan to issue pardons to disgraced crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence, and former Democratic senator Robert Menendez, who is serving an 11-year sentence for accepting bribes.
The Times said the Republican president was also asked whether he would consider pardoning Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer convicted of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, whose death sparked nationwide racial justice protests.
“I haven’t been asked about it,” Trump said.
On the day of his inauguration, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people who had been convicted or were facing charges for involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.
He has carried out a slew of other pardons since then of other loyalists.
AFP
The Dangote Fertlizer Holding Company will part-finance the expansion of its urea fertiliser production capacity…
It ordered INEC not to allow the parties to participate in the subsequent elections, including…
The latest figures indicate that while inflation remains considerably lower than the levels recorded a…
The development, the company noted, will strengthen the company’s board as it builds on its…
Total distributable income comprised distributable statutory revenue of N1.260 trillion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT)…
It said that the decision followed extensive consultations with party stakeholders, and representatives of all…