Venezuela's Maduro adds Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer to defense team
The hire adds a lawyer who cross-examined Cassie Ventura as Maduro faces U.S. narco-terrorism and weapons charges.
- On Thursday, attorney Anna Estevao, who represented Sean "Diddy" Combs in his blockbuster criminal trial last year, joined President Maduro's defense team.
- The move follows Maduro's lead attorney, Barry Pollack, and renowned trial lawyer Susan Hoffinger joining Estevao's firm, Harris Trzaskoma LLP, earlier this week.
- During the blockbuster criminal trial of Combs last year, Estevao cross-examined star prosecution witness Cassie Ventura, establishing her prominence in high-stakes litigation.
- Pollack signaled he is prepared to challenge the legality of what he called Maduro's "abduction" by the U.S. military during a January 3 raid in Caracas.
- Maduro, who pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism and drug trafficking charges, is scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal court on June 30 before District Judge Alvin Hellerstein.
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Washington, Jun 4 (EFE).- Venezuela's deposed President Nicolás Maduro joined the main lawyer of the hip-hop tycoon on Thursday, convicted on two counts of transporting people to practice prostitution, his defense team according to judicial records consulted by EFE.
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and María Santana, CNN en Español Criminal lawyer Anna Estevao, who was part of Sean “Diddy” Combs' legal defense during her seven-week trial in New York last year, joined the legal team of the deposed President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in the United States, according to documents presented to the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has hired lawyer Ana Estevao, who was part of the legal team of American rapper Sean Diddy Combs.
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Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, accused of drug trafficking, electoral fraud or human rights violations in Venezuela, among other crimes, joined his legal team with Anna Estevao, who was a lawyer for rapper Sean Diddy Combs. Employee of the firm Harris Trzaskoma, Estevao defended Combs during his legal process for crimes related to the white trafficking. The rapper ended up being sentenced to 50 months in prison. He is serving his sen…
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