The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman pleads guilty in U.S. to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on intrnational drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia.
As Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Guzman ran a cartel responsible for smuggling cocaine and other drugs into the United States during his 25-year reign, prosecutors say. They also said his “army ofThe prosecutor, Anthony Nardozzi, said Guzman’s wife had “aided and abetted” the Sinaloa cartel’s objectives to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
Lichtman contended that Coronel Aispuro was a “very minimal participant” in the drug empire. “She was a very small part of this much larger thing,” he said Her arrest earlier this year was a surprise, in part because authorities had made no move to arrest her over the past two years even after she was implicated in her husband’s crimes. During Guzman’s trial in 2019, prosecutors said she helped orchestrate Guzman’s two prison breaks in Mexico.
Nardozzi said Coronel Aispuro “served as a go-between” to deliver messages to cartel members after her husband was arrested and also conspired with Guzman’s sons to “plan and coordinate” his prison escapes.
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