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NEW YORK - Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison , but will his sentence be commuted by President Donald Trump?

The backstory:

Combs was convicted in July on two counts of violating the Mann Act, a federal law banning interstate prostitution. Prosecutors said he arranged paid sexual encounters between his girlfriends and male sex workers. Each charge carried a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

On Oct. 3, Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Combs to just over four years in prison.

After the sentencing, Combs’ lawyers asked that he be sent to a low-security federal prison in New Jersey to serve his sentence, telling a judge that the facility’s drug treatment program would help him stay clean.

President Trump told reporters that same day that Combs ha

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