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The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from US federal custody on Wednesday after serving nearly two years of a three-year sentence.
Emma Coronel Aispuro is a former beauty queen who married the drug kingpin when at the age of 18 in 2008. She is a dual US-Mexican citizen.
The Bureau of Prisons said she had been released from a low-security halfway house in Los Angeles. She was also given a further two years of supervised release.
Why was El Chapo’s wife in prison?
Coronel pleaded guilty in 2021 to helping Guzman’s Sinaloa drug cartel launder money and distribute illegal drugs.
“The defendant was not a leader, organizer, boss or other type of manager,” prosecutor Anthony Nardozzi said during her trial. “Rather she was a cog in a very large wheel of a criminal organization.”
Mexico’s state prosecutor’s office said Coronel was not facing charges “for now.”
Meanwhile, Guzman is serving a life sentence in the US after he was extradited in 2017 following two escapes from Mexican maximum-security prisons.
Coronel had helped facilitate Guzman’s spectacular 2015 prison break in Mexico and regularly attended her husband’s trial in New York.
More to follow…
zc/rt (AP, Reuters, AFP)
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