Nov 10, 2018 · Follow the Story. When El Chapo appears in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday for the first day of a bombshell trial, he’ll have a legal dream team …
Nov 11, 2018 · Joaquin Guzman Loera, 61, AKA El Chapo, only has three attorneys on his legal defense team – and he’s only going to spend an estimated $5 million for his trial. He obviously never took any ESP courses before he got busted.
The New York Times reports that Guzman has retained Jeffrey Lichtman and Marc Fernich, both of whom defended John Gotti, Jr., as well as William Purpura and …
Nov 11, 2018 · The trial of Joaquin Guzman Loera ('El Chapo,' pictured) is set to begin in Brooklyn on Tuesday with the three-man, $5 million legal team of Jeffery Lichtman, Eduardo Balarezo and William Purpura...
Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez | |
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Organization | Sinaloa Cartel |
Jeffrey Lichtman | |
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Born | June 5, 1965 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | Emory University Duke University School of Law |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Website | www.jeffreylichtman.com |
Ismael Zambada | |
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Other names | Mayo, M-Z, Padrino, el Señor |
Occupation | Leader of Sinaloa Cartel |
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Predecessor | Joaquin Guzmán Loera |
Other clients have told me there’s mold on the water faucets, the AC is never clean. You can actually see the dust and mold.”. El Chapo wasn’t allowed any outdoor exercise time, likely on account of his two successful escapes from prison in Mexico.
El Chapo responded by putting his hand against the glass between them. She reciprocated to form a kind of maximum-security handshake. Over the next three hours, Colón Miró and Guzmán chatted about their backgrounds, politics (he asked her about President Trump and Mayor de Blasio), and the upcoming elections in Mexico.
Outraged, Cifuentes later found out that El Chapo’s partner, the aforementioned Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was responsible, ostensibly because Ojeda had the nerve to build a mansion that was bigger than his.
The real boss was Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who, while named in the government’s indictment, still, conveniently, remained at large south of the border. The entire Chapo trial was a part of vast cover-up, Lichtman said. ...
Certainly Chapo had captured headlines with his daring escapes from maximum-security prisons, running record shipments of tons of cocaine into the U.S., as well as allegedly causing wholesale death and social misery in various wars of machismo and avarice against rival cartels.
The entire Chapo trial was a part of vast cover-up, Lichtman said. “This is a case that will require you to throw out much of what you were taught to believe in about the way governments work and how they behave, governments in South and Central American and Mexico and even the United States.”.
The uproar went global when then Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and his predecessor, Felipe Calderón, issued angry denials calling Lichtman’s allegations “defamatory,” “absolutely false,” and “reckless.”. For Lichtman, a man who saw himself as the winner of unwinnable cases, worldwide conspiracy was an inside straight: very difficult ...
Shargel, the gentleman scholar of mob lawyering and the rough-and-tumble La Rossa, the subject of a 1977 New York Magazine profile by Denis Hamill titled “The Bionic Mouth of White Collar Crime,” will be forever linked in the continuity of mouthpiece jurisprudence.
It was also Chapo’s fault that the government had been able to crack the encryption system Jorge Milton had set up to defeat wire taps.