Chapo legal team in limbo on fees

EL CHAPO’S legal limbo continued Monday after a judge said he wouldn’t push prosecutors to promise they’d forgo a fight over fees paid to the druglord’s newly hired lawyers.

Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman, the reputed leader of the vicious Sinaloa Cartel, has lined up four lawyers to try fending off a sprawling drug trafficking case set for trial in April.

The problem is, Brooklyn federal prosecutors — pressing for a $14 billion forfeiture — might argue that Guzman’s legal payments are property of Uncle Sam. That’s made new counsel queasy about formally stepping in.