A lawyer who represented hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs at trial has been added to Nicolas Maduro's defense team, court records showed on Thursday, as the ousted Venezuelan president prepares to fight the U.S. drug trafficking charges he faces.
Anna Estevao of law firm Harris Trzaskoma was part of the team that secured acquittals for Combs on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, which could have landed him in prison for life.
Combs was found guilty on two lesser prostitution-related counts and is serving a 50-month prison sentence at a federal lockup in New Jersey. He is appealing his convictions and his sentence.
Maduro has pleaded not guilty to narcoterrorism and drug trafficking charges. He is jailed in Brooklyn ahead of trial.
Estevao was added to the defense team two days after Harris Trzaskoma announced that Maduro's Washington-based defense lawyer, Barry Pollack, was joining the firm. Pollack had previously been with the firm Harris St. Laurent.
