On Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed a comprehensive indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing him of racketeering, sexual abuse and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.

The indictment accuses Combs of being the leader of a criminal “organization” that enabled him to sexually, physically, emotionally and verbally abuse his victims for years.

Combs “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and cover up his behavior,” the indictment states. He is also accused of drug offenses, arson, bribery, kidnapping, forced labor and other crimes.

The rapper’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, told reporters Tuesday that Combs “knew what was going to happen” since raids on his Miami and Los Angeles homes in March. In an earlier statement, Agnifilo called the charges against Combs “unjust” and said his client is “an innocent man who has nothing to hide” and “looks forward to clearing his name in court.” Diddy pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon.

Here’s everything you need to know about the charges against Combs.

Alleged sexual violence and drug-related “freak offs”

Combs, as well as his employees and partners who made up his alleged company, “used the power and prestige” of his name to “intimidate, threaten and entice female victims, often under the guise of a romantic relationship,” the indictment states.

Some of the alleged sexual assaults against Combs took the form of so-called “freak offs,” which prosecutors described as “elaborate and staged sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.”

The indictment states that “freak offs” “occurred regularly, sometimes lasting several days and often involving multiple sex workers,” who were allegedly sometimes transported across state lines or abroad.

According to the indictment, Combs is said to have distributed drugs during these sexual performances in order to make the perpetrators “obedient and submissive.”

Before a “freak off,” company members – Combs’ employees and partners, according to the indictment – allegedly organized the trip for the alleged victims, gave Combs “large sums of cash” to pay the sex workers, and planned the administration of IVs that both Combs and the women typically received afterward “to recover from the physical exertion and drug use,” according to the indictment.

The indictment also alleges Diddy stocked his hotel rooms with supplies such as medications, baby oil, lubricants, linens and lighting. Searches of Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles found narcotics and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricants,” according to the indictment.

If alleged victims refused to participate in a “freak off,” Combs allegedly threatened their careers and livelihoods, sometimes using “sensitive, embarrassing and incriminating recordings” of them taken during the “freak offs” “as collateral to obtain the victims’ continued compliance and silence,” prosecutors said.

“The victims believed they could not refuse Combs’ demands without jeopardizing their financial security or their jobs or without fearing consequences in the form of physical and emotional abuse,” the indictment states.

Agnifilo, Diddy’s attorney, said the defense did not see evidence of sex trafficking in the “freak offs,” but rather evidence of consenting adults experiencing intimacy “in a way that two adults would want.”

Alleged physical abuse and firearms

Combs physically abused his victims on several occasions, the indictment states. Sometimes he “hit them, punched them, pulled them, threw objects at them and kicked them.”

The physical abuse was “recurring and widely known” among employees and partners of his alleged company, prosecutors said.

At times, Combs’ alleged victims had to “remain hidden for several days” to recover from their physical injuries unseen, the indictment says.

In addition to the alleged physical violence, the indictment alleges that Combs kept his alleged victims under control by “promising career opportunities, providing or threatening to withdraw financial support, and using other coercive means, including monitoring their whereabouts, determining their appearance, monitoring their medical records, controlling their accommodations, and supplying them with controlled substances.”

The charges specifically refer to an incident in March 2016 – captured on hotel surveillance video footage that surfaced publicly in May – when Combs was observed punching his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. According to the charges, Combs “kicked, dragged and threw a vase” at Ventura as she tried to flee, and claims he tried to bribe a hotel security guard who intervened to compel silence.

Combs has consistently denied the allegations against him. Ventura’s lawsuit, filed in November, was settled shortly thereafter without any admission of wrongdoing.

After the hotel surveillance footage was released in May, Combs apologized, saying he had “hit rock bottom.”

The indictment also accuses Combs of repeatedly “carrying or brandishing firearms to intimidate and threaten others,” including alleged victims and witnesses.

During a search of Combs’ apartment, police officers seized “three AR-15s with obscured serial numbers and a drum magazine,” according to the indictment.

A culture of silence

Combs’ alleged company – which prosecutors say included security guards, domestic staff, personal assistants, supervisors and other employees – was created, according to the indictment, with the goal of “preserving, protecting, promoting and expanding Combs’ position of power.”

Combs’ company allegedly relied on the “absolute loyalty” of its employees to maintain their silence.

The indictment says the company served to protect Combs’ alleged crimes from exposure and prosecution through threats of violence, abuse and retaliation. Those who “demonstrated loyalty to Combs and a willingness to cover up his crimes” were rewarded, including with bribes, it says.

At times when Combs believed he was facing police action – including less than a year ago when video of his alleged attack on Ventura emerged – Combs and alleged company members “pressured witnesses and victims, including through attempted bribes, to keep them silent and not report to authorities what they experienced or knew,” prosecutors wrote.

As part of this campaign, Combs and his accomplices are said to have called victims and witnesses – at least two of these conversations were recorded by Combs – and “provided a false account of events in order to cover up Combs’ crimes,” the indictment states.