NEW YORK — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs accused prosecutors Monday of engaging in “outrageous government conduct” by using materials seized from his jail cell to try to keep him incarcerated before his trial.

They said information gathered in a raid on Combs’ cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were cited in papers the government filed Friday in Manhattan federal court in a bid to keep the music mogul locked up until his May 5 trial.

“This is a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, must be addressed immediately,” the lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian, who already has scheduled a bail hearing for Friday for Combs. They requested an “immediate hearing” so prosecutors can explain who authorized the search of Combs’ cell, where personal effects and paperwork were seized.

Combs, 55, has been held since his September arrest on charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the aid of a network of associates and employees. An indictment accuses him of silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is seeking to be freed to house arrest through a $50 million bail package.

On Friday, prosecutors said Combs has been trying to dodge scrutiny of his jailhouse communications while orchestrating social media campaigns aimed at tainting the jury pool and trying to publicly leak materials he views are helpful to his case. They said he also has contacted witnesses through third parties.

In their letter Monday, lawyers for Combs noted that prosecutors acknowledged in their bail arguments last week that they possess “possibly privileged materials, such as the notes recovered from the defendant’s cell.”

Prosecutors declined to comment.

Typhoon Man-yi unleashes death, damage: Typhoon Man-yi left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms, officials said Monday.

Man-yi was one of the strongest of the six major storms to hit the northern Philippines in less than a month and had sustained winds of up to 125 mph when it slammed the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila and offered his prayers, announcing an additional $1 million in humanitarian aid for typhoon victims. He told Marcos he has authorized U.S. troops to help Filipino forces provide lifesaving aid.

More than a million people were affected by the typhoon and two previous storms, including nearly 700,000 who fled their homes and moved to emergency shelters or relatives’ homes, according to the Official of Civil Defense.

Nearly 8,000 houses were damaged or destroyed and more than 100 cities and towns were hit by power outages caused by toppled electric posts, it said.

The rare number of back-to-back storms and typhoons that lashed Luzon — the country’s largest and most populous island — in three weeks affected 9 million people, leaving more than 160 dead.

The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year. It’s often hit by earthquakes and has over a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

Capitol rioter sentenced: A former Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq two decades ago was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Edward Richmond Jr. attacked police officers with a metal baton in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Richmond, 41, of Geismar, Louisiana, said he regretted his actions that day.

“It was wrong. It was foolish,” Richmond said before U.S. District Judge John Bates sentenced him to four years and three months behind bars.

The judge said Richmond appeared to be genuinely remorseful for joining one of the most violent episodes of the Capitol riot — a clash between rioters and outnumbered officers inside a tunnel entrance.

More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot. More than 650 have been sentenced to prison terms of a few days to 22 years.

NYC stabbing rampage: A man stabbed three people across a swath of Manhattan on Monday morning, killing two and critically wounding the third without a word uttered, officials said.

The 51-year-old suspect was in custody after being found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives he was carrying, authorities said. The suspect’s and victims’ names weren’t released.

Investigators were working to understand what sparked the rampage, which happened within 2 1/2 hours.

“No words exchanged. No property taken. Just attacked, viciously,” said Joseph Kenny, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives. “He just walked up to them and began to attack them with the knives.”

Clergy sex abuse: Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children everywhere should be protected from predator priests.

The U.S. norms, adopted at the height of the abuse scandal, say a priest will be permanently removed from church ministry based on even a single act of sexual abuse that’s admitted or established by church law.

The church also has faced abuse scandals globally, and survivors from around the world said Monday there’s no reason why the U.S. norms couldn’t be applied universally.

Bannon trial delayed: Steve Bannon’s border wall fundraising trial was postponed to February as prosecutors disclosed Monday that the former Trump White House strategist once suggested that the nonprofit venture was “a scam.”

Bannon, who recently finished serving federal prison time for a contempt of Congress conviction, had been due to go on trial next month on New York state charges related to the defunct “We Build The Wall” campaign. He has pleaded not guilty.

He was not in court for Monday’s hearing but listened in virtually. He did not speak except to say “yes, ma’am” when asked whether he understood he must be in court when jury selection starts Feb. 25.

Bannon, who turns 71 next week, faces state charges including conspiracy and money laundering. Until Monday, jury selection was due to start Dec. 9.