EL Chapo - Drug Cartel Chief, arrested for Trafficking, conspiracy, firearms etc. *guilty* #2

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El Chapo's wife arrives at sentencing hearing

July 17th 2019

"NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. (all times local):

9:20 a.m.

The wife of the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" has arrived at her husband's long-awaited sentencing in New York.

Emma Coronel Aispuro walked into the heavily guarded federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Wednesday as Joaquin Guzman prepared to learn his fate for running a murderous drug-trafficking ring....

---NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo go quietly?

For Joaquin Guzman, that's the biggest question at his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday. The highly-anticipated hearing could be his last chance to speak publicly before spending the rest of his life behind bars at a maximum security U.S. prison...."

The Latest: El Chapo's wife arrives at sentencing hearing - 660 NEWS

(Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives for his sentencing at Brooklyn federal court, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 in New York. The 62-year-old Guzman was convicted in February on multiple conspiracy counts in an epic drug-trafficking case. [AP Photo/Mark Lennihan])

 

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El Chapo's Wife Arrives at NYC Court for Drug Lord's Sentencing | NBC New York

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Molly Crane-Newman‏Verified account @molcranenewman 2m2 minutes ago
#ElChapo just spoke for 15 minutes at his sentencing—he described the U.S. government as “corrupt,” and said that he’s endured “psychological, emotional and mental torture” while in confinement at 10 South. It was wild.


Molly Crane-Newman‏Verified account @molcranenewman 7m7 minutes ago
“When I was extradited to the U.S., I expected to receive a fair trial,” he said in Spanish. “ ... and where my fame would not be a determining factor in the administration of justice.”


Molly Crane-Newman‏Verified account @molcranenewman 1m1 minute ago
He described himself as a victim of “the most inhumane” conditions he’s witnessed in his life.

“In order to sleep I have to use plugs made out of toilet paper in my ears,” he said. “It’s been a lack of respect for human dignity.”

 

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Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 4m4 minutes ago
#BREAKING @vicenews: El Chapo sentenced to life in prison + 30 years in a dramatic hearing. He spoke at length and questioned whether his conviction was justice because of juror misconduct.


Molly Crane-Newman‏Verified account @molcranenewman 7m7 minutes ago
Breaking: Chapo was just sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years, to be served concurrently.

“Since the government will send me to a jail where my name will not ever be heard again, I take this opportunity to say: there was no justice here.”


Noah Hurowitz‏Verified account @NoahHurowitz 5m5 minutes ago
BREAKING: Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been sentenced to life + 30 years in prison.

Speaking to the court for about 15 minutes, Chapo thanked his family, denounced his pre-trial treatment as "torture," and accused the US government of corruption


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 14s15 seconds ago
Guzman gave his most extensive comments in the case so far, saying that his conditions of confinement at the federal jail in Manhattan amounted to "psychological, emotional and mental torture." He said he's been forced to drink unsanitary water and gets little light or air.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 6m6 minutes ago
He also complained he received an unfair trial, especially after Judge Brian Cogan denied his motion for a new trial following reports in Vice about potential juror misconduct.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 5m5 minutes ago
"Since the govt of the United States is going to send me to a prison where my name will never heard again, I take advantage of this opportunity to say there was no justice here."



Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 3m3 minutes ago
One of Chapo's victims, a former cartel member named Andrea Velez, also spoke, delivering an emotional statement about how he tried to have her killed.


Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 2m2 minutes ago
The defense focused on the juror misconduct issue from my @vicenews interview. I was mentioned by name at one point. Defense indicated they plan to appeal.

 

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Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 4m4 minutes ago
He honestly didn't look so hot in court today, arriving in a loose fitting grey suit, his tie askew and a new-growth mustache on his upper lip. He resembled nothing more than a traveling paper goods salesman who had spent a very long night in a railroad station bar.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 1m1 minute ago
The other bit of drama today was a so-called "victim impact" statement by Andrea Velez, the former personal assistant to Chapo's lieutenant, Alex Cifuentes. Guzman used Andrea over the years himself in schemes like his vanity movie project and various dirty trick operations.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 28s29 seconds ago
Long story, but things went south between Andrea and Guzman, the kingpin paid the Hell's Angels $1 million to kill her. Didn't happen obviously, but Andrea today described the lingering nightmares and terror.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 3m3 minutes ago
"I am a miracle of God," she said, "because Mr. Guzman tried to kill me."


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 6m6 minutes ago
Andrea said that when she first met Guzman she was impressed by his kindness and charisma and felt he and his Sinaloa cronies were her family. She came to see that was a kind of Stockholm syndrome and claims she eventually saved by the FBI for whom she became an undercover agent.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 4m4 minutes ago
Andrea, as a "proactive cooperator," got all sorts of goodies on Guzman and Alex for the feds, including it appears some still unreleased video/audio recordings. As a parting message to Guzman she praised his abilities as a father and asked him for forgiveness.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 3m3 minutes ago
"Mr. Guzman, the same as I ask for your forgiveness, I forgive you...Today, I want to close this painful chapter of my life. Today, I am strong. But yesterday, I was weak."

 

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Noah Hurowitz‏Verified account @NoahHurowitz 6m6 minutes ago
Defense attorneys for El Chapo are speaking to media now

Noah Hurowitz‏Verified account @NoahHurowitz 3m3 minutes ago
“You can bury Joaquín Guzmán under tons of steel in Colorado but you’re never going to erase the stink of” this case, says attorney Jeffrey Lichtman

 

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Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison

July 17th 2019

"NEW YORK (AP) — The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble.

A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday, five months after Guzman's conviction in an epic drug-trafficking case.

The 62-year-old drug lord, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operation, was brought to the U.S. to stand trial after he twice escaped from Mexican prisons.

Before he was sentenced, Guzman, complained about the conditions of his confinement and told the judge he was denied a fair trial. He said U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan failed to thoroughly investigate claims of juror misconduct.

"My case was stained and you denied me a fair trial when the whole world was watching," Guzman said in court through an interpreter. "When I was extradited to the United States, I expected to have a fair trial, but what happened was exactly the opposite."...

Experts say he will likely wind up at the federal government's "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." Most inmates at Supermax are given a television, but their only actual view of the outside world is a 4-inch window. They have minimal interaction with other people and eat all their meals in their cells...."

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison

 

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And I see on the CNN crawler - Judge ordered El Chapo to pay the $12.6B in forfeiture.

 

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Molly Crane-Newman‏Verified account @molcranenewman 7m7 minutes ago
How’s this for a kicker?

“The United States is no better than any other corrupt country that you don’t respect,” Chapo said to Judge Cogan.

“Thank you, sir.”

 

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El Chapo Sentenced to Life in Prison

Jul 17, 2019

"El Chapo is going away for life — and he’s not happy about it.

The Sinaloa cartel boss, born Joaquín Guzmán-Loera, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole Wednesday. In a packed hearing in the same Brooklyn courtroom where he was convicted on a 10-count indictment earlier this year the kingpin, said his trial was unjust, pointing to allegations of juror misconduct reported by VICE News after his conviction.

The hearing was almost certainly Chapo’s final moment in public, and he used it to speak his mind. Referring to the alleged misconduct, Chapo told the judge: “In response you decided to do nothing. You didn’t want to question not even one member one of the jury to determine I received justice.”...

Because U.S. authorities remain concerned about Chapo’s ability to control the Sinaloa cartel from behind bars, as he did for years in Mexico, he is subject to “Special Administrative Measures,” or SAMs. These rules prohibit him from having contact with anyone other than his lawyers and close family members, including his mother, sisters, and daughters. He could also be blocked from reading or hearing any recent news reports....

In addition to the life sentence, federal prosecutors have also moved to seize $12.6 billion from Chapo, the purported street value of all the drugs he shipped to the U.S. over more than three decades atop the Sinaloa cartel. So far, U.S. investigators have come up empty in their search for his cash...."

El Chapo Sentenced to Life in Prison

 

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Austin Statesman‏Verified account @statesman 2m2 minutes ago
“My case was stained and you denied me a fair trial when the whole world was watching,” Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said in court through an interpreter. https://atxne.ws/2SiE8kj


Steve Kastenbaum‏ @SKastenbaum 37s37 seconds ago
Massive presence from the US Attorney’s NY Eastern District office and other federal agencies outside Federal Court in downtown Brooklyn where Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life. Reports on @WestwoodOne @WestwoodOne stations

 

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Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6m6 minutes ago
“My case was stained,” Chapo said before he was sentenced to life + 30 years. Chapo remained seated, speaking through a translator about his tortuous treatment in jail and disappointment he didn’t get a retrial hearing. @NYCDefenseLaw said they drafted the statement together.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 4m4 minutes ago
Honestly, Chapo, facing life, could have burned the house down today. Named names. Attacked American drug use as an insatiable demand he was merely supplying. He chose not to. He chose to attack his extradition, the narrow legal issue of juror misconduct and his confinement.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 3m3 minutes ago
For instance: "When I was extradited to the US I expected to have a fair trial, where justice would be blind and my fame would not be a determining factor in the administration of justice."


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 2m2 minutes ago
He also complained that the air in his solitary cell where he's been kept for 30 months has given his headaches, ear aches and a sore throat. He said he has to use earplugs made of toilet paper to sleep over the racket of the air ducts.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 50s50 seconds ago
"What happened here," he said, "makes it very clear that the United States is no better than any corrupt country."


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 1m1 minute ago
Answering this, Gina Parlovecchio, a federal prosecutor, scoffed at the idea that Guzman was complaining about human rights and dignity when he showed little of either to his numerous victims both here and in Mexico.


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 35m35 minutes ago
Parlovecchio noted that most of his victims still remain voiceless: not the just dead and those he hunted, but the hundreds, if not thousands, who suffered from the drugs he "pumped onto the streets," earning him a vast fortune in "blood money."


Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 33m33 minutes ago
Bottom line: the defense strategy--and there seemed to be one here--was to cast doubt on the verdict, the sentence, the trial, the entire US justice system. The prosecutors and Andrea Velez sought to uphold the essential equity of that same system.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 14m14 minutes ago
Chapo entered the courtroom this morning, a different man: his hair was saltier and he’d grown a thick mustache. He saluted friends, waved a kiss to his wife and tapped his chest. This may be the last time he sees his wife, who doesn’t have visitation rights.


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Patty Guerra‏Verified account @PattyGuerraD 56m56 minutes ago
El Chapo challenged the judge for proceeding with his trial after @keegan_hamilton reported alleged juror misconduct. “Why did we go to trial? Why not convict me from day one?”

 

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Watch live: Officials speak to reporters after Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán receives life sentence

 

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Officials make statements after 'El Chapo' sentenced to life in prison

 

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Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 23m23 minutes ago
Story updated @vicenews with more details from today, including Chapo blowing kisses at his wife while a a woman named Andrea Velez described a kidnapping attempt and what happened when she tried to leave the cartel https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/evyepp/el-chapo-sentenced-to-life-in-prison …

 

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Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" sentenced to life in prison by federal judge (with clip)

JULY 17, 2019

"...Guzman, 62, spoke at his sentencing on Wednesday. CBS News' Cassandra Gauthier was in the courtroom when Guzman addressed U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan while speaking through a translator.

"Thank you, your honor for allowing me to say a few words," Guzman began then cleared his throat. "First I want to thank my wife, my family for their unconditional support."

He called his confinement "total torture." Guzman said, "I have been forced to drink unsanitary water." He said the air he breathes through a duct is "forced in makes my ears, my throat, my head hurt."

He complained that his wife Emma Coronel has not been able to visit him. "I have not been able to hug my daughters. It has been psychological, emotional, mental torture 24 hours a day." He called his confinement "the most inhumane situation I've ever been in."

He remarked how when he was extradited, he "expected to have a fair trial... what happened was actually the opposite."...

Standing outside the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday, Guzman's attorney Jeffrey Lichtman blasted the verdict.

"History will treat this verdict with skepticism." Lichtman said. "This case was simply an inquisition. It was a show trial. With how it ended was absolutely perfect for that description."

"I'm not here to tell you Joaquín Guzmán was as saint," he said. "All we asked for was a fair trial. If you don't give a fair trial to Joaquín Guzmán, what happens to the guy off the street who is tried for tax evasion?"

Lichtman addressed claims of juror misconduct and said "up to five jurors have broken the law" when they were judging Guzmán's crimes. He said government witnesses got "sweetheart deals" for testifying against Guzmán, and described Judge Cogan's opinion as a "quickly, written and canned 43 page opinion." ...

U.S. attorneys who successfully prosecuted Guzmán spoke outside the federal courthouse, as well.

"Today brings a measure of justice for the American people. It brings a measure of justice for the country of Mexico, whose institution were corrupted for decades by the Sinaloa cartel," said Brian Bezczkowski, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. "If you pump hundreds of thousands of tons of cocaine and other drugs into our country, we will find you, we will extricate you, we will prosecute you, and we will bring you to justice."

"This sentence is significant and it is well deserved," Donoghue said on Tuesday. "It means that never again will Guzmán throw poison over our borders, making billions, while innocent lives are lost to drug violence and drug addiction." "

"El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman, drug cartel kingpin, sentenced to life in prison today in New York by federal Judge - CBS News

 

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Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 6h6 hours ago
No cameras allowed in court today — as is standard — but here’s a sketch by artist Christine Cornell that portrays the scene, including Chapo bringing back his iconic mustache

Keegan Hamilton‏Verified account @keegan_hamilton 12m12 minutes ago
Super sweaty report from today’s El Chapo sentencing coming in hot @vicenews tonight on @HBO…

 

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Alan Feuer‏ @alanfeuer 8m8 minutes ago
What we know--and more importantly, don't--about Andrea Velez, one of the most mysterious figures from the Chapo trial: a personal assistant to drug traffickers, a victim of a murder plot, and an FBI informant.

El Chapo ‘Tried to Kill Me’: A Final Witness Confronts the Drug Lord

 

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Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
Chapo could've implicated politicians on both sides of the border, explained why he joined the drug-trafficking business, or taken a page from his attorneys' books and told of his impoverished orange-selling childhood. Instead, he lamented his “total torture” in jail.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
Chapo spoke for ~15 minutes, reading from notes drafted with his attorney, @NYCDefenseLaw. After deciding not to testify at trial, this was his largest - and likely last - courtroom stage to tell his side before starting a sentence of life plus 30 years. Here’s a play-by-play vv


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
“Do I stand?” Chapo asked the judge, ahead of his 15-minute statement. The judge suggested he remain seated. From his seat, Chapo told him that “the conditions of my confinement” over the last 30 months had been “torture, the most inhumane situation I have lived in my life.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
Among the torturous aspects of Chapo’s time at Manhattan’s 10 South: tainted drinking water, lack of sunlight and fresh air pushed through a vent, causing pain to his ears, throat and head, he said.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
Chapo said his experience with American justice had been “exactly the opposite” of what he expected: he’d been cheated of an impartial jury: “With respect, you decided to do nothing. You didn’t want to question even one member of the jury to decide if I had received justice.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
“You alleged that the actions of the jury was not important because there was already a lot of evidence against me,” Chapo told the judge. He added: “I ask: ‘Why did you not sentence me on Day One?’”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 6h6 hours ago
“Since the government of the United States is going to send me to prison where my name will not be heard again, I take the opportunity to say there was not justice here,” Chapo said, echoing his attorney in calling the case “stained.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 5h5 hours ago
“You denied me a fair trial when the whole world was watching and the press was present,” Chapo told the judge. “This could happen to anyone.” He concluded: “The United States is not better than any other corrupt country that you do not respect. Thank you, sir.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 5h5 hours ago
Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel, who came to the trial with her friend and real estate agent, listened to her husband’s statements with her head bowed.

 

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Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 5h5 hours ago
Just one victim testified at Chapo’s sentencing: Andrea Velez. As Alex Cifuentes’s Girl Friday, Andrea researched drug prices, tried to locate targets with social media, hosted modeling parties for Mexico City's general and photographed suitcases stuffed w/ $100M cash for @EPN.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 5h5 hours ago
Talking Chapo sentencing day and what it really means for the future of drug trafficking (spoiler: not a lot) on @KCBSRadio.

Notorious Cartel Leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Sentenced to Life in Prison - KCBS Radio: On-Demand - Omny.fm


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 5h5 hours ago
Andrea Velez was the obvious choice to testify. During the 11-week trial we heard about two cooperators who were paid to continue working for the cartel: Andrea received $290,000 compared to Chapo’s I.T. guy, Cristian Rodriguez, who got $460,000. Neither spent time in jail.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Alex Cifuentes has referred to Andrea Velez as his “friend” and secretary. Today, the Colombian came to court to speak for herself. “Today in front of all of you, I want to stop being a name without a face,” she said, adding: “Today I have the opportunity to tell the truth.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Andrea referred to several instances “when Sr. Guzmán literally tried to kill me.” Chapo used her as “bait” during an incident in Ecuador and ordered her killed with a payment of $1 million to the motorcycle gang, Hell’s Angel. @NYCDefenseLaw blamed everything on Alex Cifuentes.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Andrea said that at first she trusted Chapo, calling him “polite,” a good father, with “great charisma.” “Nothing could happen to me with them beside me.” But later, her opinion later changed.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
“When I saw the reality and wanted to distance myself, these friends were only that: captors, who reminded me if I left the organization, I could only do it in a plastic bag and feet first,” Andrea Velez told the court.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
"I sinned, but I paid a high price for my faults," Andrea Velez acknowledged. Among her losses: "I lost my family, my friends, I became a shadow of myself."


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
“I had everything and I lost everything, including myself,” Andrea Velez said. “Today all I have left is to tell the world in person my experience.” She noted the allure of the “glamor” world of narco-trafficking to “so that so many young people like me.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Then addressing Chapo, she said: “Sr. Guzmán, the same as I ask forgiveness, I forgive you as I hope you can forgive me. You have two beautiful daughters who you would not want to have happen to them what happened to me.” Sniffling she called him a “buen padre.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Andrea Velez's strength waned, and she dabbed her eyes with a tissue. “Today I want to close an extremely painful chapter in my life,” she said, adding she wanted “to be the voice of many more victims who weren’t able to make it here because their lives were cut short.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Andrea Velez was the only victim to speak at Chapo's sentencing, and one of the few female voices present at a trial that included a handful of women amongst the 53 witnesses. Here she is pictured with Chapo and Alex Cifuentes.

Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
Here’s Chapo’s sentencing story, speared by @alanfeuer. What’s next? The defense maintains the trial was spoiled by a criminal jury, who made the case “stink.” Appeal must be filed in two weeks and may cite Chapo’s pre-conviction confinement conditions.

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Sentenced to Life in Prison, Ending Notorious Criminal Career

 

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Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 4h4 hours ago
The judge noted that life and thirty years was fair, given that Chapo scored 66 points out of a max of 43 in sentencing guidelines “so it gets taken down because we are so far above.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
Chapo’s sentence for the 10 charges is as follows:
-Counts #1-8 = life imprisonment
-Count 9 =another 30 years
-Count 10 = another 240 months (but that runs at the same time as his life sentence, so it doesn’t really count)


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
“The trial record speaks for itself,” Judge Cogan said in sentencing Chapo to 30 years beyond life. He explained that “despite the fact that he may be a good father” with “other good attributes,” in the end “the overwhelming evil is so severe.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
In addition to the sentence of life plus 30 years, the judge in Chapo’s case found the government’s calculations of $12.7 billion forfeiture to be “reasonable.” Restitution must be decided within 90 days.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
When the judge addressed the court and explained his sentencing decision, he spoke with an attitude my Southern grandmother would only described as “smart-allecky.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
The defense asked that Chapo stay in Manhattan for 60 days while appeal is considered. The judge deferred to the US Marshals and Bureau of Prisons. He is expected to then be moved to ADX super-max in Florence, Colorado.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
After sentencing, Chapo waved and sent a kiss to his wife, Emma Coronel. Emma, dressed in black pants and vest and nude stilettos, leaned across the bench, watching as him escorted out. Emma doesn’t have visitation rights, so this may be the last time they see each other.


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
What does Chapo’s sentencing mean? Depends on who you ask. -Richard P. Donoghue: “It means that never again will Mr. Guzmán pour poison over our borders.”

-@NYCDefenseLaw, Chapo’s attorney: “All he wanted was justice and at the end of the day he didn’t get it.”


Emily Palmer‏Verified account @emilyepalmer 3h3 hours ago
CORRECTION: I was mistaken, this was not Andrea pictured in this photograph. Chapo is, however, the guy on the left.