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The wife of 'El Chapo', Emma Coronel Aispuro, right, leaves with her twin daughters from the federal courthouse in Brooklyn after a hearing in the case of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, on June 26, 2018, in New York. TODD HEISLER, STF / NYT Show More Show Less 5 of9 22, 2021, and charged with helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire and plotting to break him out of prison after he was captured in 2014. JOHANNES EISELE, Contributor / AFP/Getty Images Show More Show Less 4 of9įILE - Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of the notorious cartel boss known as El Chapo, in New York, Jan. , Handout / AFP via Getty Images Show More Show Less 3 of9Įmma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman walks out of federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 17, 2019, after Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's sentencing, in New York City. 23, 2021, shows Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. This booking photo released by the Alexandria, Va., sheriff’s office on Feb. KENA BETANCUR, Contributor / AFP via Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of9

Her arrest came as a surprise in part because authorities had done nothing to arrest her in the past two years, even after she became implicated in crimes committed by her husband.Īt “El Chapo’s” trial in 2019, prosecutors said she helped orchestrate the kingpin’s two prison escapes in Mexico. The drug trafficker's wife was seen at the hearings of that trial and even gave interviews to the press.Ĭoronel served part of her sentence in Virginia and was later transferred to a federal prison in Texas.In this file photo taken on February 12, 2019, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leaves the federal courthouse after a verdict was announced at the trial of Guzman in Brooklyn, New York. citizenship, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana, money laundering and participation in property transactions belonging to a drug trafficker. In June 2021, Coronel pleaded guilty to federal charges after being arrested in February of that year at Dulles International Airport in Virginia and was later accused of helping her husband run a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking empire. “I know that it may be difficult to ignore the fact that I am Joaquín Guzmán's wife, perhaps that is why you feel the obligation to be harsher with me, but I beg you not to do it. Today, the suffering that I have caused my family hurts me a lot,” said Coronel, speaking directly to Judge Rudolph Contreras, minutes before hearing his sentence. “I want to show my regret for any harm I have caused. I ask that all the people of this country forgive me,” Coronel said during the sentencing hearing in a District of Columbia court.

Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas rampageĪs part of the plea agreement, the wife of the former head of the Sinaloa cartel could be released from prison when she serves 85% of her sentence. In addition, the months that she spent in detention since February 2021 awaiting trial were taken into account. Jeffrey Lichtman, Coronel's attorney, had said after the sentencing that his client - with good behavior - could be released from prison in 18 months.Īs part of his sentence, Coronel had to pay $1.5 million.

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