The onetime Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison Wednesday, a humbling end for a drug lord notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. Before he was sentenced, Guzman complained about the conditions of his confinement and told the judge he was denied a fair trial. ‘El Chapo’ likely to join some of nation’s most notorious criminals in Colorado’s ‘Supermax’Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, exits after sentencing in the trial of her husband Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman at United States Federal Court in New York. The guilty verdict in February at Guzman’s 11-week trial triggered a mandatory sentence of life without parole. Cogan also ordered Guzman to pay $12.6 billion in ill-gotten proceeds — money his drug-trafficking organization made distributing cocaine and other drugs across the United States.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 17, 2019 13:22 UTC