My meeting with Jeffrey Lichtman, New York’s lawyer du jour thanks to his defence of the diminutive drug lord El Chapo, was going swimmingly until he threw me out.
He objected to me asking about his alleged affair with another client, a glamorous but crooked restaurateur dubbed the “vegan Bernie Madoff”.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman seems likely to spend the rest of his life in a spartan prison cell but the ebullient lawyer, whose defence looked like a lost cause from start to finish of the 11-week trial, looks set to prosper.
We meet two days after Guzman, 61, was convicted last week of running a vast drug trafficking organisation, which prosecutors estimated netted him at least $14bn.
Lichtman says Guzman, who was revealed to