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Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to 4 years in prison on Friday, Oct. 3

In July, the former music mogul was found guilty on two prostitution charges but acquitted of more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges

A former federal prosecutor tells PEOPLE he is "not surprised" by the sentence

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison this week, and with credit for time served, the rapper is looking at 36 months — or 3 years for the two prostitution-related charges he was convicted of in July.

"It was a split the baby sentence," former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani tells PEOPLE. "It was heavier than I expected for a simple prostitution case. But when you brought in all the evidence of the violence, the force, the coercion, the threats, the dr

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