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Judge Arun Subramanian rejected Sean "Diddy" Combs' request for a new trial and the rapper's demand for an acquittal days before his scheduled sentencing.

Subramanian said the prosecution provided "overwhelming evidence" of Diddy's guilt on the charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.

"The government proved its case many times over," the federal judge wrote in his opinion obtained by Fox News Digital. "That by itself might be enough to dispose of Combs’s challenge. But the other factors don’t do much to help Combs either."

The rapper's legal team had argued the sex trafficking and racketeering evidence could have prejudiced the jury. Judge Subramanian also rejected the "spillover prejudice" argument, pointing

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