A state judge ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million in damages to a collection of nonprofit groups Wednesday as part of a settlement of a lawsuit that accused his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, of financial mismanagement.
Guzmán, 62, was convicted this winter after a three-month trial in U.S.District Court in Brooklyn that often veered, in head-snapping fashion, between solemnity and absurdity.
NEW YORK — In his 30-year career as one of Mexico’s wiliest and most successful drug lords, Joaquín Guzmán Loera — better known as El Chapo — made so much money selling drugs that he once owned a pair of yachts, a fleet of Learjets and a private zoo with tigers, crocodiles and panthers. His fortune was vast enough that he was named to Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires four times.
NEW YORK — In a typical case, after a defendant’s conviction, the criminal process slows down as both sides prepare for sentencing or the defense prepares an appeal. But the prosecution of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug capo known as El Chapo, has never been a typical case.
The fentanyl seizure was a clear signal that even after the hard-fought task of convicting Guzmán on drug conspiracy charges, U.S. federal agents have far to go in their attempts to dismantle Mexico’s infamous cartels.
The conviction this week of Mexican crime lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera was one of the most visible victories for U.S. law enforcement since the war on drugs began in the 1970s, a triumph over a cartel leader who survived — and thrived — for decades on his business skills, brutal violence and bottomless bribes to Mexican officials.
The guilty verdict against the kingpin, whose real name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, ended the career of a legendary outlaw who also served as a dark folk hero in Mexico.
NEW YORK — The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York City that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption.
NEW YORK — The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York City that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption.
NEW YORK — The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York City that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption.
NEW YORK — The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York City that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption.
NEW YORK — The Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo was convicted Tuesday after a three-month drug trial in New York City that exposed the inner workings of his sprawling cartel, which over decades shipped tons of drugs into the United States and plagued Mexico with relentless bloodshed and corruption.
It is difficult to glean much information from a jury’s notes, but those that have been sent by the jurors in this case suggest that the panel is making a genuine effort to sort through more than 10 weeks of testimony and exhibits.
NEW YORK — Prosecutors at the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera spent more than 10 weeks painting the kingpin as the most despicable sort of criminal.
NEW YORK — Prosecutors at the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera spent more than 10 weeks painting the kingpin as the most despicable sort of criminal. Guzmán, known as El Chapo, trafficked tons of drugs, bribed nearly everyone of authority in Mexico and once ordered his henchmen to incinerate the bodies of two of his enemies in a bonfire, they said.
NEW YORK — The most common methods the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera used to avoid imprisonment in Mexico was to either escape jail (which he did twice) or to not get caught in the first place.
Few legal proceedings have featured evidence as exhaustive — and exhausting — as Guzmán’s trial, which began in November under tight security in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, has.
The strategy that Guzmán crafted — and Coronel passed on — was as daring as it was ingenious: Laborers staged near the prison would dig a milelong tunnel into his cell.
Born in Cosalá, Mexico, Sánchez started working at 8 years old selling empanadas in the street. At 10, she was spending her mornings in the fields, picking corn and tomatoes, and her afternoons in school.
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