NEW YORK — Even as the prosecution closed its case against Sean “Puffy” Combs on Wednesday, a new set of bribery allegations surfaced against the rap impresario, this time focusing on alleged attempts to pay off potential key witness Matthew “Scar” Allen and his family.

Allen’s argument with Combs allegedly sparked the Club New York shootings, and Allen has claimed he “saw the fire coming out of” Combs’ and Jamal “Shyne” Barrow’s guns inside the club. He was arrested in Maryland on Wednesday, several weeks after becoming a fugitive when he failed to appear at a hearing in an unrelated Brooklyn case.

In a letter to the court and in a closed January hearing made public on Wednesday, prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos accused Combs of approaching Allen several times after the December 27, 1999, shootings.

“I’m going to have my people get in touch with you, but it ain’t coming from me,” Combs said, according to Bogdanos. “You’ve got to understand that. It’s not coming from me. Give your number to my man, Wolf.

“I’ve already got a bribery on me — my boys will take care of you but you got to understand it’s not coming from me,” Combs allegedly continued.

“I’m not your bitch to be calling your man,” Allen claims to have told Combs in response, according to Bogdanos.

Combs is already charged with trying to bribe driver Wardel Fenderson to claim ownership of a gun found in the Lincoln Navigator in which Combs fled Club New York.

Allen will claim on the stand that both Shyne and Combs fired guns at Club New York, according to Bogdanos. Allen’s brothers, James and Steven Allen, were with him at the club, and also claim to have seen Combs and Shyne fire, the prosecutor said.

Bogdanos issued subpoenas for James and Steven Allen, as well as for their mother, Shirley Allen, but he withdrew those subpoenas after learning they planned to invoke the Fifth Amendment and decline to answer questions.

Matthew Allen, however, is expected to testify as a rebuttal witness after the defense closes its case. In a sworn, handwritten statement dated January 3, but first released Wednesday, Allen gave a blow-by-blow, bullet-by-bullet account of the Club New York incident.

“Puffy was saying goodbye and high-fiving everybody,” Allen wrote. “At one point he reached over me and knocked me and the glass I was holding into the bar. At the time I didn’t realize who it was that had just knocked me and so as I turned around I pushed him off of me and realized it was Puffy. He started saying, ‘What’s up, what’s up’ and I said ‘F--- you.’” After “one of the guys at the bar” threw money at Combs, “Shyne then dipped down and came back with a gun and started firing,” according to Allen’s statement. “At that point, Puffy had a gun in his right hand as I was running out. I could see both Shyne and Puffy firing guns — the reason I know both Shyne and Puffy fired is because I saw the fire coming out of their guns.” A spokesperson for Combs could not be reached for comment on the new allegations Wednesday evening, and his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, did not return a call for comment left with his answering service.

In the past, defense lawyers have said in court that Allen, not the defendants, should take the blame for instigating the Club New York shootings, which wounded three people. They’ve also suggested that Allen and the people with him at Club New York had guns, and that .40 caliber bullets found at the club could be linked to him or his friends.

This is the second year in a row in which Combs has faced bribery allegations on the day of the Grammy Awards. His indictment on the original bribery charge was announced last year while he was in Los Angeles for the ceremony.

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