El Chapo's Lawyer Under Fire For His "X Rated" Sex Affair With His Client, "The Vegan Bernie Madoff"

NY POST – Jurors in the El Chapo trial were questioned Monday about The Post’s weekend coverage of the steamy affair the drug lord’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, had with his vegan client.

Immediately after taking the bench in Brooklyn federal court, Judge Brian Cogan announced that the attorneys in the Chapo case wanted to “discuss the potential effects of a certain media coverage that tangentially related to the case over the weekend.”

The jurist was referring to a handful of Post stories revealing the X-rated relationship between Lichtman, a married father known for repping John “Junior” Gotti, and convicted restaurateur Sarma Melngailis.

Lichtman and Melngailis carried on a sexual relationship while he represented her in her scheme-to-defraud case that resulted in a four-month sentence.

Known as the “Vegan Bernie Madoff,” the 46-year-old health nut admitted to swindling investors and shortchanging employees of her now-shuttered Pure Food and Wine eatery.

I know, I was as shocked as you when I found out that the guy who willingly chose to represent El Chapo after years of defending John Gotti in a court of law turned out to be morally questionable.

Turns out he wasn’t just representing “The Vegan Bernie Madoff” after she stole $2 million from her Manhattan restaurant, he was also REPRESENTIN’ her, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.   (Fun side note: she was also banging Louis CK, and it appears this one was consensual.)

She is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000X hotter than Bernie.

Her sex was apparently good enough to get her some “VIP treatment,” with her ending up doing only 4 months in prison after pleading guilty to grand larceny.  (Another fun side note: she was on the run for 10 months, and was caught when her husband “ordered un-vegan Dominos pizza and wings to their $99 a night hotel room.”  She must have been so pissed, on both a legal and a health level.)

Okay let’s get to the sexts:

-Two days later, Lichtman — who is married and has twin teenage boys — texted his client an indecent proposal.

“Do you want to belong to me? Will it be ok if some days I just use your body so that I can [orgasm]?” he wrote.

- On March 18, 2017, Lichtman texted Melngailis: “You do look so pretty in that pic I would like to foul you. Is it bad that I’m thinking some disgusting thoughts about you?”

Melngailis replied: “Is it bad that I?m glad you?re thinking them?”

Nine days later, Lichtman told his client, “We need to do this soon,” asking, “Would you still be able to stand me as your lawyer if I foul you?”

“I think so,” Melngailis answered.

“Let’s wait until after then,” Lichtman wrote.

“I’m not opposed to before,” the former restaurateur said.

-Apparently, neither could wait until after the plea deal. On May 2, eight days before her court appearance, Lichtman texted Melngailis rave reviews of a recent romp.

“I loved being in you,” he wrote.

Melngailis replied, “And see how you lucked out: I didn’t go all praying mantis and kill and eat you after. For that would have only been self-defeating.”

-Three days later, Lichtman still couldn’t keep it in his pants.

“You felt perfect. Like it fit perfectly. Do you want that again,” he wrote.

“Yes I do,” Melngailis answered.

-On May 9, the day before Melngailis was due to appear in court, the dirty texts continued, with Lichtman telling his client that he would like to get it on after she takes her nightly Ambien.

“I would be in favor of that,” Melngailis said. “They make me kind of rag dollish.”

“Perfect,” the lusty lawyer replied.

-“It was crazy. During the plea I was kind of swooning for you. Just wanted to touch you a little even,” Lichtman wrote two days later.

“I love when you say stuff like that. As it’s often hard to tell behind your surly facade. That’s romantic,” she wrote back.

“I wanted you to feel my shoulder rubbing up against yours … I need to eat you,” Lichtman added for extra flourish.

-In one May exchange, Melngailis reassures Lichtman she hasn’t told anyone about their dalliance.

“I expected you to keep this between us,” he responded. “Look. You know how important you are to me.”

-During a conversation on May 23, 2017, regarding his desire to orgasm while inside of Melngailis — a recurring theme — she said she thought it was unlikely she would get pregnant that week.

Although, she added, if she did, the baby “would probably exit my womb driving a mini Porsche and yelling at everyone in the delivery room.”

Only after the two did the deed did Melngailis bother to ask Lichtman if he was married.

“Separated since December,” he replied in a May 19, 2017, text.

Reached for comment, Lichtman’s wife said that she knew nothing of the affair and that she and her husband had never separated.

And my personal favorite…

-In one May 16, 2017, text, she suggests they have sex “on top of the big communal table at Le Pain Quotidien.”

And when Lichtman asked on May 7, 2017, if she wanted to “taste” him, the vegetable lover replied diplomatically.

“Penciling in ‘Jeffrey’s c–k’ in my calendar for Thursday pm. I do. If you eat lots of fruit and pineapple and all vegan it tastes good.”

Those Vegan tips coming in handy.

As for his work with Chapo, don’t worry, cartel guys: he hooked him up too.

He also spilled about other clients, including El Chapo.

In one March 16, 2017, text, Lichtman asks her if it’s “bad that I’m hiring a belly dancer to be Chapo’s daily visitor? .?.?. he has no pretty women visiting him. I feel bad.”

Find you a lawyer whose services don’t stop in the courtroom.  A belly dancer to your jail cell is a pretty nice perk.  That’s how you keep the diamond encrusted pistol from coming out of Chapo’s back pocket.

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(via The New York Post)