 | Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has retained high-profile lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman who helped John Gotti Jr. avoid prison in 2005. Guzman is currently jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center's Special Housing Unit in New York while awaiting a federal trial for a slew of criminal charges related to his time as the former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. |  |
 | At its peak the Sinaloa cartel was responsible for up to half of the illegal drugs coming into the United States. Guzman could be jailed for life. A trial date is April 2018. The federal indictment charging Guzman seeks forfeiture of $14 billion in drug money, but Mexico said that U.S. authorities have not found "even one dollar" of those funds. |  |
 | Lichtman is best known for helping represent John A. Gotti, the son of Gambino family crime boss John Gotti, in a case that ended with an acquittal of a $25 million securities fraud charge and a deadlocked jury on each of the remaining charges against him. A hollywood film about John Gotti 'The Life and Death of John Gotti', starring John Travolta started filming July 25th. |  |
