Sean “Diddy” Combs’ request for an acquittal or a new trial was denied on Tuesday, September 30, just days before his scheduled sentencing.

Judge Arun Subramanian wrote in a judgment obtained by People and Deadline that the “government proved its case many times over” in its federal case against the star. “That by itself might be enough to dispose of Combs’s challenge,” the judge determined.

Subramanian’s decision comes after a Thursday, September 25, hearing in New York to consider the rapper’s latest motion.

Diddy’s attorneys filed a motion in July asking that the disgraced music mogul, 55, either be acquitted or granted a new trial. Earlier that month, the Grammy winner was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution but acquitted on charges of racketeering

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