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, Handout / AFP via Getty Images Show More Show Less 3 of9Įmma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman walks out of federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 17, 2019, after Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's sentencing, in New York City. 23, 2021, shows Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. This booking photo released by the Alexandria, Va., sheriff’s office on Feb. KENA BETANCUR, Contributor / AFP via Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of9

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She was in her 20s at the time.”Ĭoronel Aispuro is being held in an Alexandria, Virginia jail.In this file photo taken on February 12, 2019, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leaves the federal courthouse after a verdict was announced at the trial of Guzman in Brooklyn, New York. It is 10 times worse than anything Emma is alleged to have done, which is basically act as a secretary for her husband. There’s no doubt that it obstructs justice. “There’s no doubt that it violated the law. “There’s no question about this that it puts in the crosshairs,” he added. “So you’ve got federal agents that don’t care about the fact that they’ve sworn to uphold the law, have violated it and have destroyed any ability to exploit any cooperation by her,” he said.Īnd if she was not cooperating, the attorney said, this “was clearly designed to force her to cooperate, to put pressure on her, to target her family, to make her think that the only choice she has is to cooperate.” El Chapo and Emma Coronel Aispuro share 9-year-old twin girls Emali Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina. She was born in California and has dual US/Mexican citizenship.īut Lichtman said that “if there was cooperation that was going on or was about to go on, it’s been destroyed.” “Emma wants to get far away from the violence, and has always wanted to live in the US,” the source said. Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather and her lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman during a virtual hearing in federal court. Natan DvirĪispuro and Guzman share 9-year-old twin girls Emali Guadalupe and Maria Joaquina.Ī federal law enforcement source told The Post on Saturday that Coronel Aispuro is “definitely cooperating,” adding that she is a likely candidate for witness protection.Įmma Coronel Aispuro appears before U.S.

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.” 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

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