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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

The U.S. Criminal Case against Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of El Chapo

 By Chivis Martinez

Update:  Federal magistrate judge, Robin Meriweather   presided over the short virtual court hearing today in Washington DC.

Judge Meriweather explained the charges to Coronel, who spoke to the judge through a Spanish interpreter.

Judge Meriweather said prosecutors had provided sufficient reason to keep Coronel behind bars for now and noted that her attorney had consented to the temporary detention.

Emma Coronel faces life behind bars, the same sentence Chapo received.  It is unlikely the two will ever see each other face to face again.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, is accused of conspiring to help distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana in the U.S.  She has a DC Court appearance this AM via video conference…

Based on information and evidence revealed in the New York trial of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, it would have seemed that  Emma Coronel Aispuro, common-law wife of Chapo, had escaped justice for her role in the capo's worldwide drug empire.

Then subsequent to the trial, she appeared to flaunt her fearless attitude that she would never be brought to charges anywhere including the United States.  She then founded legit businesses and claimed in a televised interview that her wealth was from investments made, not from El Chapo money, but that from her father.  This made no sense, as money from her father was still dirty illegal money, her father Innes Coronel is imprisoned for drug trafficking.  I had noted at the time of the trial that Emma is a dual citizen both US and Mexican.  As a US citizen, she is subjected to worldwide taxation, and I wondered if the IRS has taken a good look at Emma's worldwide holdings. 

Maybe that is next for Emma.  As Yaqui reported, she was arrested yesterday and has been charged with drug trafficking, accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotted his escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

A part of the case against Coronel is a hand-written letter from Chapo given to Emma while he was in Altiplano prison. An extraction from the criminal complaint says:

Says special agent; According to Cooperating Witness 1, CORONEL also knew that GUZMAN’s sons, IVAN, OVIDIO, ALFREDO, and JOAQUIN, are also high-ranking members of the Sinaloa Cartel. CORONEL further knew that her father, INES CORONEL, coordinated narcotics transports for GUZMAN.

CORONEL grew up with knowledge of the narcotics trafficking industry and married GUZMAN when she was a teenager. Based upon my investigation, I know CORONEL understood the scope of the Sinaloa Cartel’s drug trafficking. CORONEL knows and understands the Sinaloa Cartel is the most prolific cartel in Mexico. CORONEL was aware of multi-ton cocaine shipments, multi-kilo heroin production, multi-ton marijuana shipments, and ton quantity methamphetamine shipments. CORONEL understood the drug proceeds she controlled during her marriage to GUZMAN were derived from these shipments. Furthermore, from 2012 to 2014,

CORONEL relayed messages on behalf of GUZMAN in furtherance of drug trafficking activities while GUZMAN attempted to avoid capture by Mexican authorities. Once GUZMAN was arrested in February 2014, CORONEL continued to deliver messages she received from GUZMAN during her prison visits, which were not monitored by Mexican authorities.

I have reviewed a handwritten letter written and signed by GUZMAN. This letter was authenticated by multiple witnesses, including Cooperating Witness 1, and is currently

maintained in FBI evidence control. The letter states, in pertinent part:

“Regarding Cleto, increase the production so that it yields. Say hi to Cleto. Tell him to please give me a hand, so that the first sale will be my part… because I have a lot of expenses here.”

 I know from my investigation that “Cleto” is a drug trafficker based in Durango, Mexico who produces heroin. I know from Cooperating Witness 1 as well as other sources that Cleto produced heroin for GUZMAN. I know GUZMAN’s reference to “expenses here” was a reminder to the recipient of the letter that GUZMAN had to pay bribes inside the prison and also continue to support his family. I know from my investigation that Cleto and Cooperating Witness provided CORONEL drug proceeds from more than 5 kilograms of heroin.

[Also key in the complaint is the charge, that came out in court testimony during the Chapo trial, of  CORONEL’s Participation in GUZMAN’s Escape from Prison]

The agent continues in the complaint;

Based on my knowledge of the investigation and debriefing of multiple former Sinaloa Cartel members, CORONEL visited GUZMAN at Altiplano prison on multiple occasions following GUZMAN’s arrest on February 22, 2014.

I have reviewed a handwritten letter written and signed by GUZMAN. This letter was authenticated by multiple witnesses and is currently maintained in FBI evidence control. The letter contains detailed instructions about the ongoing operations of the Sinaloa Cartel, including narcotics transports.

The letter also states, in pertinent part:

“I ask you to always be in agreement among you and my four sons. Hire accountants throughout the state, and pay the guys and widows from there, and whatever is left per month, half is for you and half for the four of them.

. . . You know who has the papers from that place. Send them to the twins please.

The twins’ mother will tell you and my children something. Please be alert, compadre. She will explain.

. . . The twins’ mother will bring a message to all of you, so that you all see it personally.”

[agent says].....Based on my knowledge of the investigation, I understand “my four sons” to be IVAN, ALFREDO, OVIDIO, and JOAQUIN, and I understand “[t]he twins’ mother” to be CORONEL.

Based on the letter quoted above and my knowledge of the investigation, I believe that CORONEL was acting as a go-between and messenger between GUZMAN and his lieutenants, associates, and sons. I further understand that GUZMAN continued to direct the drug trafficking activities of the Sinaloa Cartel from Altiplano prison through a number of individuals, including CORONEL.

According to Cooperating Witness 1, he/she received communications from CORONEL on behalf of GUZMAN while GUZMAN was detained in Altiplano prison in 2014 and 2015. Furthermore, Cooperating Witness 1 told me CORONEL agreed to help facilitate GUZMAN to escape from Altiplano via an underground tunnel.

According to Cooperating Witness 1, CORONEL met with him/her and asked for assistance with GUZMAN’s escape from Altiplano prison. Cooperating Witness 1  agreed to assist. Later, CORONEL met with Cooperating Witness 1, IVAN, ALFREDO, OVIDIO, and

JOAQUIN and communicated GUZMAN’s instructions regarding the escape plan to them. During the meeting, CORONEL, IVAN, ALFREDO, OVIDIO, and Cooperating Witness 1 agreed to organize the construction of an underground tunnel linked to Altiplano in order to facilitate GUZMAN’s escape from prison. Cooperating Witness 1, CORONEL, IVAN, ALFREDO, and OVIDIO all understood that the purpose of facilitating GUZMAN’s escape was to prevent GUZMAN’s extradition to the United States and to ensure his continued control over the Sinaloa Cartel and its drug trafficking activities.

Look for a sweet plea deal for Coronel, she is very valuable as a cooperative, and she has her young 9-year-old twins with Chapo to consider, who would be parentless if she went to trial and was convicted.  I see her going the way of Vincente Zambada; cooperate, get a deal, protection, the ability to keep a slice of the fortune, and a relatively short time behind bars.

Although it isn’t revealed on Pacer who is representing Coronel, my source today says he thought it was  Lichtman and Colon.  Two of the attorneys that represented Chapo.

To access all my posts from the trial of El Chapo, use the search bar and type in EL CHAPO TRIAL

Read the complete complaint unsealed yesterday below

Emma Coronel, Wife of El Chapo, Criminal Complaint Criminal Complaint by Chivis Martinez on Scribd

110 comments:

  1. It's stupid to think that Emma did not know the working of the cartel along with her husband. It is difficult to prove she moved anything herself though but this is why the DEA intercepted text messeges between her and Chapo proving according to them this direct involvement of hers in the game.
    O well. I sure won't loose any sleep at all over this matter.

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  2. With that smug attitude, she will reap what she sowed.

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    1. 7:14 stop the hate🤣 just cause u would be shitting ur panties doesn't mean everyone also would 🤣

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  3. Animo Sicarios!

    Mis respetos para los Coroneles y los Guzman.

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    1. Sicario006 i heard you gente nueva guys only get paid $200 usd a month to die for los chapitos

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    2. 8:18 and this payment for the first few years at least. Anything else is a handout they tell them.
      Chapos sound like opponents of raising the Minimum wage here in the U.S.

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    3. Hey 200 dollars a month is enough to maintain a couple household in Mexico go check the dollar to pesos value

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    4. 4:34 fuck no it's not enough to maintain a household.
      I live across the border from Mexico and know this first hand.

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    5. @12:36 true but I’m talking about in down Mexico not by the border where it’s like paying in the USA where they just want dollars because of the tourist money.

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    6. 12:27 240 a month is what people earn working a 9 to 5 job. Fuckin CDS members get paid the same wage to risk their lives for their bosses the Chapitos and MZ???
      What a bunch of fuckin morons to say the least and CDS slave drivers!!!!

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    7. Lookihere pinshis batos chafas, the pay is IN PEISOS, mostly, the rest is in "product" you have to eat or sell, but only until you get your own store going. And afyer you ate finished paying for the weapon and the monster. Slave fo' life, capisci?

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  4. My thing is why is the US always acting like they ain’t on this shit? They act like DEA and CIA and involved in all this cash and money laundering they some crooked as mofos as well.

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    1. The U.S. acts like that because they can. They have the power.

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    2. 12:58 it is like when you fell in bed with your pimp, soon after you found out.

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    3. 6:05 Refrain from personal attacks as you come off as intellectually outclassed. Stick to the subject.

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  5. I doubt she was actually selling drugs. Escape is not a crime in Mexico so I don't understand the hoopla by the US govt over that. Conspiracy? Maybe. But she's just a very expensive wife #2 because we all know Chapo does have a wife #1.

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    1. Wife #5, but Ka Reina del Oacifico got caught with a 50 ton boat load of shit and got free after a few years, her argentinian boyfriend still is in prison...
      learn to work ladies, it is not about the fake lips, fake ass, fake tits when you want to find a real man.

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  6. Free that innocent woman

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  7. Damaso gonna be a free man and in US soil in no time

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    1. He is probably already a free man his son did not turn himself in for nothing well I mean to stay alive but his dad must have told him the sweet life and deals they will get.

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  8. So witness number 1 is Damaso?

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    1. Yeah I think so?

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    2. or Joaquin Jr, read above again, who was there, and then left out, replaced by witness #1

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  9. Also happy to see BB back was a long few months without y’all

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  10. LOL this will kill Chapo when he hears is wife is in custody facing a minimum 25 years to life. I can’t stop laughing, his world in solitary just got darker. He will never ever in his life hear from her again once she is convicted and imprisoned.

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    1. You’re life must suck that bad that you’re still thinking about him and he doesn’t know you exist at all lol

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    2. 1:38
      Your life must be worse if you're defending a criminal who doesn't know you exist.

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    3. 6:32 i bet your ass Jayceeus Khraist didn't know you existed.
      But observing tjere are different levels of treatment for different levels of criminals, Oliver North who desecrated his uniform and destroyed evidence after trafficking cocaine and marihuana for years to the US and invented excuses to go to war in Nicaragua and his confrere confederates got a presidential pardon, nice payback for being criminals and traitors, but their workers in the Guadalajara Cartel got 30 years for following orders...

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    4. 8:21 Yikes... I guess.

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  11. The US government usually has a strong case before they make a arrest. Bye Felicia

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    1. Not with Cienfuegos. 🤭🤭🤭 they dropped the ball on that one.

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    2. 2:17 THEY HAVE more evidence than YOU could THINK off but he's a government employee, therefore he's EXEMPT from BEING prosecuted and got a pat on the BACK.. They ALSO have testimonies FROM capos THAT bribed him..

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    3. They had a strong case with Cienfuegos but he was let go because of political pressure.

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    4. Well whatever evidence they gave to AMLO it wasn't enough to seal the deal. If they had more evidence they should've turned it in and AMLO wouldn't of been made to seem like he called their bluff.

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    5. @3:15 Gennaro Luna was also a Government employee. He didn't get any exemption. Too bad BB was down at that time. I was looking forward to everyone's input on his release.

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    6. Genaro Luna headed an agency that acted JUST like the DEA and just as CROOKED
      That agency no longer exists, I'm guessing there could only be one DEA
      CALDERON used him to take DOWN zetas and FAMILIA michoacana.. He GOT used and even though CALDERON is guilty as sin, the U.S will not touch him

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    7. Garcia luna and FECAL got medals from the BOSS, Colombia president alvaro uribe velez, for conducting a war on all the falsos positivos they could find inder guise of a war on drugs, theu wete all just recovering the business for colombian traffickers shorted by the mexican cartels for many years.

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  12. So Chapo dried snitch.

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  13. Crazy how the gringos go after everybody for drug trafficking but they have yet to arrest a US politician/agent for involvement.

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    1. Videotape or at oeast record a U.S. politician doing this kind of shit then send the tape over to the U.S. authorities and then see what happens.
      Without this you are simply blowing smoke out the window.

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  14. Chapo didn’t want to get the “dear John” so he snitched!

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  15. Chiva

    El chopo is not legally married to this Emma ?

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    1. Not unusual in Mexico. All of the wives remain in his life as he moves to the next. Allegedly, they all work in the 'organization'.

      Last year Chapo's daughter posted on social media docs that depict he has never divorced his first wife, and in fact he lists her as his wife on all prison records in Mexico.

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  16. Well with the Federal prosecution success rate being 90% or higher good luck to her, but it's about time she faces justice. I know in the LEO world justice is actually rare with DTO's with all the pea deal cutting and all of the cooperation shared but hey at least funds are seized. Out of All the funds and property seized the arresting agency keeps 70%.

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    1. If thats "dirty" drug money, they should burn it if they really want to prove their point. Otherwise their benefitting from the drug trade as much as the cartels are- thatll never happen though- the local police need more tanks

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    2. only conspiracy, that not much, its a stretch, unless the deck is stacked with an unfair judge

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  17. Baby Girl knows exactly how Daddy makes the scratch. Thing is: it’s easier to go after her than it is to go after the real players. They wield pens—not firearms.

    Joaquin’s only mistake was generating more “federal reserve notes” than Uncle Scam—that’s why he’s buried in Florence, CO.

    M.F.

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    1. 11:40 sincerily, i hope that MF does not mean Mother Facker

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  18. Who is “cooperating witness no1” ? Is it someone who was extradited recently? Is it Garcia Luna?

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    1. Personally I am thinking much before Luna was even in the picture. Someone or a couple of those who testified in the trial. Remember his info surfaced then....

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    2. It's Damaso Lopez.

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    3. If it’s Dámaso was he so out of contact with the rest of the leadership so far what I read was things before chapós arrest and while he was in Mexico prison. Nothing since what do you guys think can she beat the case and get out with out spilling the beans?

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    4. Cooperating Witness #2? My guess is Alex Cifuentes. Whoever it was had to be involved in the procurement of 100 tons or more. They also had to be in the loop post chapo Emma marriage. Any other guesses?

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    5. Depends on how much cash shes willing to fork over in "fines.."
      That conviction rate is no joke- btw, i just saw an article from last year about a guy in ft lauderdale who got popped at a air bnb eith 750 kilos- facing 4 life sentences- and he BEAT THE CASE LMAOOOO

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    6. she should fight it all the way, they got nothing, conspiracy is smoke

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    7. Former GM executive John DeLorean got zero prison time or fines and a Top Model for wife for trying to save his rotten ass car brand with cocaine trafficking...after that, too many auto makers ran to assemble their junky jalopies in Mexico and export them to the USSA, even yugos!!!

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  19. Thank you guys for coming back! Gran Chivis, Buggs, MX, everyone, thank you. I've missed the site, my favorite by far. I hope all of your families and loved ones are safe. Saludos desde Los Angeles y un gran abrazo. Welcome back

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    1. @1201 hrs.: This x1000.

      M.F.

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    2. Perdon Chivis, its El Nemesis, su fiel seguidor. Ya sabe, que esten todos bien

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    3. Perdon por no poner mi firma, soy el Nemesis. Que todos esten bien. Attentament, su fiel seguidor

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    4. This I know, are you friend? Staying away from the cabrona virus?....Paz

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    5. Me and the fam have been good and trying to stay as safe as we can, pero ya sabe, we still have to do our lives. Jow are you and yours? Todos bien I pray

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  20. Just because those are her charges doesnt mean shit. Shes can get a bond hire an attorney and cop a plea to a lesser charge due to mitigating factors. And possibly even get probation. They know her role in drug trafficking is minimal at that if anything at all. This is to possibly make dude talk about the dirty politicians. This isnt because she has some major role in anything connected to drugs. Now why the fuck would she get involved she never needed money. This is just a ploy.

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  21. NOTE: to access my posts from the trial of El Chapo...use the search bar and type in EL CHAPO TRIAL, pages of posts will appear. 🧐

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  22. Any evidence pertaining to Chapos escape in Mexico has to be thrown out. it wasn't under US jurisdiction and as I said before,escape in Mexico is not a crime. If I was her lawyer I would have those conversations suppressed with motions. Chapo would not have allowed her to sell drugs and with the amount of $ he has there would have been no reason. Tax evasion is what she'll plead to.

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    1. She's a U.S CITIZEN in custody, her problems have just begun. My criminal attorney/attorney criminal told me are you a banker or a gambler, take the plea offer or go to trial...

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    2. does RICO come into play???
      Just proof that she was part of his cartel and it doesn’t matter if she wasn’t trafficking

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    3. Ya but you missed the part the feds slipped in that his escape was to AVOID EXTRADITION TO THE USA- thats the type of cheap ass shit the usa does

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    4. I am sorry, but a la Emma Coronel Aispuro se la pelan.
      I rented a post hole digger and told'em we were going to help El Chapo escape, everybody laughed their ass off, i hope we don't get conspiracy charges...

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  23. Why did she fly to Washington is the question.

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    1. stupid, just like Menchos kid did

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  24. Her downfall was her flashyness, she thought she WAS a Kardashian 😆
    Fake BUTT, fake boobs, fake nose fake LIPS.. Nasty!...
    Why can't women just BE natural?.. SMH

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    1. What does her looks have to do with anything? Im confused right now. I would guess that you are a very insecure woman who is writing this. Because i doubt anyone else besides an insecure woman really cares about any surgeries or body modifications she has done. And whether she was flashy or not doesnt concern anyone really but herself. I know for a fact her lifestyle not once had any effect on mine. Thats whats wrong with our culture were too worried about what everyone else has instead of trying to figure out how we can better our lives. Whether it be illegal or legal if your doing anything to live in better conditions than you did before I dont knock em. Keep it up!

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  25. Why is she being charge with thins that happened in another country. And the letter that the fbi had I thought according to that reporter forgot her name chapo can’t read or write.

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    1. According to one of his attys he can read but at a low skill level. His education was halted at the age of 8 or 9.

      As for happening in another country this happens all the time, and often with evidence from the government in which the defendant is a citizen.

      I am reading questions for potential jurors in the case against el menchos daughter and this is one:

      43. The defendant is accused of engaging in conduct which took place outside of the United States.
      As a matter of law, I will instruct you that this Court has proper jurisdiction over the allegations
      charged against the defendant. Do you have any personal feelings about the United States
      government prosecuting someone whose conduct occurred outside of the United States?

      That aside, in Mx it is not a crime to escape prison. So I am questioning how that can be a crime in the US against anyone. In MX it is a crime only if someone was badly hurt or killed.............

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    2. I thought it wasn't a crime to escape but it IS a crime if you assist.

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    3. I know in Mexico it is not a crime to escape from prison for the individual that escapes but what about those that conspire and assist in someone escaping from prison? I seem to remember reading while it's not a crime for an escapee to flee it is a crime for those to aid the escapee in doing so.

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    4. Working for others makes you The Fall Guy, ask Michael Cohen.
      Helping people like roger stone and giniral michael flynn escape prison with presidential pardons to have them help plans to attack US democracy and the US Capitol IS A CRIME, more prison is needed for the mophakas.
      Hellshakes!!! releasing giniral Cienpedos makes them all his accomplices...
      "We had all the proof" said Mike Vigil

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  26. Beautiful news! Hope they throw the book at this plastic lipped wench! She's been flaunting blood money for years.

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  27. She’s starting to look like Big Ange from Mob Wives

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    1. OMG!!!! That is hilarious...I will never look at the mug again without thinking of Big Ang

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  28. Pues como dice la Dora. Ahora usted y el Chapo andan mismo mismo.

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  29. Damaso dropping dimes like a rat that he is, Just like his son. 🤦‍♂️

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    1. Calmate mijo. He learned from the best his mentor chapo.. CDS= cartel de snitches. Call it how it is.. damaso leaned how to snitch from chapo who we all know has been snitching since the late 90s when he started to rat on AFO.

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    2. To this day, I truly believe that only, and ONLY Mochomo from the whole CDS federation that is not a Rat?

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  30. She toast .done finished etc .her mug shot looks like she Don t care

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  31. EVIL EYES.PURE FILTH ROT IN PEICES

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  32. I read on twitter she has a nice video leaked out but then again it can be a rumor made up

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    1. What kind of video? Dancing? Teaching school kids? Playing doctors? Handing out food to poor families? Playing video games?

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  33. Who takes care of the twin girls now?

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  34. Chivis you think el chapo found out all ready since he has no communication with the outside world. If he did what would he be wondering.

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    1. Just so you know you have a TV in ADX and you also have a radio on that same monitor. I know from first hand experience. You write your kites on there as well.

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    2. 2:46 good question. Prob his atty made sure he knows

      I would think that this conversation is one that he and Emma long ago had about cooperation if she was arrested. I am sure he said "do what you have to do...."

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  35. USA working hard to take down Chapos and Mayos. They are using the old “divide and conquer” method, similar to 2008.

    Pay attention and it seems like they know they’re close to causing an all out internal war in Sinaloa.

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  36. I'm waiting for the news that Sicario006 will rescue her from American federal prison, james bond style.

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  37. News now saying she turned herself in

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    1. Yes. "A source of the record says she turned herself in"

      I hope the twins have great security.

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    2. Remember when Vicente made the plea deal to give info his family was brought to the states and placed in Witness Protection program

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