Former Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada set to be sentenced to life in prison
He pleaded guilty to leading a decadeslong drug enterprise that prosecutors said shipped at least 1.5 million kilograms of cocaine to the United States.
- Ismael Mayo Zambada is set to be sentenced in Brooklyn federal court on Monday to life in prison, a punishment guaranteed by his guilty plea last year to drug trafficking charges.
- As the Sinaloa cartel's strategist and dealmaker, Zambada oversaw the transport of at least 1.5 million kilograms of cocaine from 1980 until last year, most of which went to the United States.
- Zambada pleaded guilty to 85 underlying crimes, including racketeering conspiracy and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, and faces $15 billion in financial penalties, prosecutors reported.
- Defense lawyer Frank Perez requested a prison hospital placement for the 76-year-old, citing age-related health issues, while federal prosecutors urged Judge Brian M. Cogan to consider "the serious ongoing security risks."
- His arrest triggered deadly fighting in Sinaloa between his loyalists and the Chapitos, the sons of co-founder Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, after years of orchestrating torture and murders.
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Deadly Sinaloa Cartel co-founder sentenced to life in US prison, ordered to surrender $15 BILLION
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, the cartel's co-founder alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, was also ordered to forfeit $15 billion in proceeds generated through the organization's vast drug trafficking network.
Ismael's "Mayo" Zambada García was sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of conditional freedom. 15 billion dollars were also seized in assets, of which the Mexican government claims a part. Excepted, since the beginning of the trial (2024), the death penalty, so feared by Zambada, that it has declared itself "guilty" to be the leader of [...] L'articolo Ergattolo per il boss del cartello di Sinaloa Zambada. Mystery about his c…
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced to life in prison in New York. The Sinaloa drug cartel leader was also ordered to pay $15 billion.
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Usa newsMexican Sinaloa cartel drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, sentenced to life in prison, denounces violence
Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court on Monday to life in prison and took the occasion to call for an end to the brand of brutal violence that he used to build the Sinaloa cartel into what prosecutors said was the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization.“No one wins in a war like this,” Zambada, 76, said in federal court in Brooklyn through a Spanish-language translator.With cartel co-founder Joaquin …
By doing so, he avoided the death penalty.
El Mayo will spend the rest of his life in an American penitentiary, like his former partner. In 2024 his plane had been hijacked to Texas, where he was arrested by the Goddess
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