Mykhaylo Koretskyy will use Jeffrey Lichtman, the high-powered lawyer who represented El Chapo at the latter’s Brooklyn trial, despite prosecution concerns that Lichtman, who still represents El Chapo, faces a potential conflict of interest by representing both men. When the grim-looking Chupeta, who had extensive surgery to disguise his appearance, ended up in court facing El Chapo, Lichtman said a similar hearing was required. They also argued that were Koretskyy to eventually to turn on El Chapo and cooperate with the U.S. government, Lichtman’s ability to advise the Canadian would be compromised, given that Koretskyy’s testimony could hurt El Chapo. Like El Chapo, Koretskyy is being held at the hardscrabble Manhattan Correctional Center. Koretskyy, Lichtman said, is housed in general population and faces conditions “not even remotely close” to those faced by El Chapo, who languishes in the prison’s far more restricted special housing unit.

Source: National Post June 07, 2019 14:37 UTC