Make El Chapo pay for a border wall? Don’t count on it

NEW YORK (AP) — After El Chapo’s conviction in a drug-trafficking trial that included florid testimony of jewel-encrusted guns, a fleet of cash-laden jets and a personal zoo with roaming big cats, some Americans have floated an idea they see as poetic justice: Why not take some of the Mexican drug lord’s billions in ill-gotten... Read More

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El Chapo

February 14, 2019

No exit: El Chapo likely off to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’

NEW YORK (AP) — In the world of corrections, there are inmates who pose security risks, and then there’s El Chapo. Drug lord Joaquin Guzman has an unparalleled record of jailbreaks, having escaped two high-security Mexican prisons before his ultimate capture and extradition to the United States. So with Guzman convicted Tuesday of drug trafficking... Read More

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El Chapo

February 13, 2019

Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman convicted

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel. Guzman listened to... Read More

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El Chapo

February 5, 2019

Fate of Mexican drug lord El Chapo now rests with US jury

NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly three months of testimony about a vast drug-smuggling conspiracy steeped in violence, a jury began deliberations Monday at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The day ended without jurors reaching a verdict for Guzman, who faces life in prison if convicted. They... Read More

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El Chapo

February 4, 2019

Family made billions on opioid as crisis raged, filing says

BOSTON (AP) — The family behind OxyContin raked in billions of dollars as it pushed to keep patients on the powerful painkiller longer despite evidence that the drug was helping to fuel the nation’s deadly opioid crisis, Massachusetts authorities allege in newly public court documents. While aggressively marketing OxyContin, the Sackler family also sought to... Read More

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Opioids

February 4, 2019

El Chapo trial highlights how Mexico graft impedes drug war

NEW YORK (AP) — In the same Brooklyn courthouse where jurors have heard testimony about Mexican politicians protecting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s drug empire, a former Mexican state attorney general pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes from narcotraffickers. The juxtaposition underscored a recurring theme of Guzman’s New York trial: how pervasive official corruption in... Read More

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El Chapo

February 1, 2019

Baltimore prosecutor files petition to erase pot convictions

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor has filed a rarely used legal petition intended to vacate 3,778 convictions for possession of marijuana, arguing an extraordinary legal strategy is necessary to “right an extraordinary wrong.” In a highly unusual “Maryland v Maryland” filing in state court, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby used a petition called “writ of... Read More

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Marilyn Mosby

February 1, 2019

Defense lawyer: Government case against El Chapo ‘a fantasy’

NEW YORK (AP) — A defense attorney for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman assailed the federal case against the Mexican drug lord as “a fantasy,” telling a U.S. jury Thursday that the prosecution relied on a parade of cooperating witnesses who “lie, steal, cheat, deal drugs and kill people” for a living. In an impassioned closing... Read More

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El Chapo

February 1, 2019

Opioid maker considered profiting off addiction treatment

BOSTON (AP) — As the nation’s opioid crisis was deepening, the company that makes a powerful prescription painkiller considered marketing an anti-addiction drug to “an attractive market” of people with addictions, according to allegations in court documents made public Thursday. The attorney general’s office in Massachusetts is suing Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, along with some company... Read More

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Purdue Pharma

January 30, 2019

Kate del Castillo glad to not testify in ‘El Chapo’ trial

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Kate del Castillo said she’s relieved she wasn’t called to testify in the New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. But she doesn’t regret arranging a 2015 meeting between Guzman and Sean Penn, although the fallout kept her from visiting and working in Mexico for more than... Read More

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Kate del Castillo

January 30, 2019

Jury set to hear closings at US trial of El Chapo

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. jury is set to hear closing arguments at the high-profile trial of the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. Joaquin Guzman was due in court Wednesday for the prosecution’s summation at a trial that began late last year after Guzman was brought to the U.S. to face drug-trafficking... Read More

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El Chapo

January 30, 2019

Defense case at El Chapo trial clocks in at 30 minutes

NEW YORK (AP) — After a prosecution that spanned 11 weeks and had its share of bombshells, the defense case at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman clocked in on Tuesday at a mere 30 minutes. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman called one witness and entered one document into evidence before resting... Read More

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El Chapo

January 29, 2019

El Chapo tells judge he won’t testify at US trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman told a judge Monday that he won’t take the witness stand in his own defense at his U.S. drug-trafficking trial, ending speculation that he might go for broke and build on a notorious reputation already cemented by the sprawling government case against him. “Your... Read More

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El Chapo

January 28, 2019

Drug firm founder heads to trial over opioid bribes scheme

BOSTON (AP) — The wealthy founder of a drug company is heading to trial on allegations that he led a scheme to bribe doctors into prescribing a highly addictive fentanyl spray. Opening statements are expected in Boston’s federal court Monday in the case of Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and four other former employees... Read More

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Opioids

Make El Chapo pay for a border wall? Don’t count on it

No exit: El Chapo likely off to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’

Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman convicted

Fate of Mexican drug lord El Chapo now rests with US jury

Family made billions on opioid as crisis raged, filing says

El Chapo trial highlights how Mexico graft impedes drug war

Baltimore prosecutor files petition to erase pot convictions

Defense lawyer: Government case against El Chapo ‘a fantasy’

Opioid maker considered profiting off addiction treatment

Kate del Castillo glad to not testify in ‘El Chapo’ trial

Jury set to hear closings at US trial of El Chapo

Defense case at El Chapo trial clocks in at 30 minutes

El Chapo tells judge he won’t testify at US trial

Drug firm founder heads to trial over opioid bribes scheme

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