She’s got two 9-year-old girls that are exposed, obviously, and to put this out there so flippantly is designed to kill them.” Jeffrey Lichtman represented Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and is now defending his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro. “And I’ve been involved with fabrication of evidence, destroying evidence, lying to judges, lying to juries by the feds, but to actually put this out there is an attempt to murder her and her family,” he said. “I’m not going to comment on what she is or what she isn’t going to do,” Lichtman on WABC’s “The Other Side of Midnight” program.īut the “planting of the story,” he said, is “absolutely the most despicable thing, probably the worst prosecutorial governmental misconduct I’ve ever experienced in 30 years.” A federal law enforcement source says that Emma Coronel Aispuro is likely a candidate for the witness protection program. Jeffrey Lichtman, who represented Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and is now defending his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was grilled on reports that the one-time beauty queen is preparing to rat out high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including her own stepsons. The lawyer for El Chapo’s wife on Monday blasted the federal sources who spoke to the media about her alleged cooperation - saying that the leak “was designed to kill her family.”
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She was 17 years old, and she married him on her 18th birthday,” said Jeffrey Lichtman, a defense attorney who also represented Guzmán in his US trial three years ago.Mexico disbands elite anti-drug squad that helped nab ‘El Chapo’: reportĮl Chapo’s drug trafficking conviction upheld by federal appeals courtĮl Chapo allegedly whacked the men who forced him to pay $500K for long johnsĮl Chapo devoured Viagra, delivered meals and women in prison “She met Joaquín Guzmán when she was a minor. He was convicted in February 2019 of drug trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, murder and other charges, and later sentenced to life in prison.Ĭoronel’s attorney on Tuesday stressed that she was swept into the world of drug trafficking while still a minor and deserved mercy. The drug lord was recaptured in January 2016 and extradited one year later to the United States. Guzman used those communications to plan his 2015 escape from the prison, through an underground tunnel built by the cartel leading to the shower in his cell. She and Guzman have nine-year-old twin daughters together.Īs part of her plea agreement with prosecutors, Coronel admitted to acting as a courier between Guzmán and other members of the Sinaloa cartel while he was being held in Mexico’s Altiplano prison following his 2014 arrest. He noted that after her arrest, she “quickly accepted responsibility for her criminal conduct”.Ĭoronel, a US-born former beauty queen who married Guzmán while she was a teenager, was arrested at Dulles international airport outside Washington in February.
The defendant acted primarily in support of her husband,” federal prosecutor Anthony Nardozzi said. “While the overall effect of the defendant’s conduct was significant, the defendant’s actual role was a minimal one. “Perhaps for this reason you feel there is a need for you to be harder on me, but I pray that you not do that,” she added.Ĭoronel pleaded guilty in June to three counts of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs, conspiring to launder money and of engaging in financial dealings with the Sinaloa drug cartel.įederal prosecutors on Tuesday asked that a four-year prison term be imposed on Coronel, adding that she would be forfeiting $1.5m as part of her sentence. She added that she feared the judge might find it difficult to forgive her because she is Guzmán’s wife.
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