Kendall Coffey

Coffey’s newest client has put the prominent Miami attorney known for biting a stripper and defending high-profile clients back in the spotlight.

Coffey, now63, was forced to resign as the U.S. Attorney when he bit a dancer during an argument at a strip club in1996.

“He bit her, but not like a crazy man,” the dancer’s husband said then. “But he did break the skin.”

Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s opponents made hay of it on the same day Coffey took the battery case of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

“Corey’s lawyer is a former prosecutor who was fired for biting a stripper. Birds of a feather,” tweeted Tim Miller, who served as communications director for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign and is nowworking for the anti-Trump Our Principles PAC.

At the time of the biting, the stripper, her husband, and the owner of the club all expressed shock that it led to Coffey’s firing.

“It wasn’t necessary,” the dancer told the Sun Sentinel in1996. “It is not what we wanted.”

Since re-entering private practice, Coffey, of Miami, has had a storied career, including a case that returned Miami Mayor Joe Carollo to office over sitting Mayor Xavier Suarez, whowas sued over absentee ballot fraud.

Coffey also served as an attorney for the Miami family of Elian Gonzalez before the boywas taken back to Cuba. He also represented what remained of the Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler firm after the arrest of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein.

Coffey was appointed a U.S. Attorney by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Over the next three years, he prosecuted a number of drug smuggling cases involving millions of dollars and, in just one case, 119 suspects.