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El Chapo’s wife pleads guilty in US federal court

The wife of Mexican drug lord El Chapo pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to helping her husband run the Sinaloa smuggling cartel. Dressed in a green jumpsuit and wearing a white mask, Emma Coronel Aispuro, appeared in court in Washington, DC, where she pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to distribute illegal drugs, conspiracy to money laundering and conspiracy to help the Sinaloa Drug Cartel. As part of her plea deal, the 31-year-old former beauty queen also admitted to plotting to help her husband escape a Mexican prison in 2015 when he dug a mile-long tunnel. long from his cell. In early 2019, 64-year-old Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted in a high-profile Brooklyn trial for organizing a multi-billion dollar drug company. He was sentenced to life in prison over 30 years and locked up in the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. Coronel, a dual Mexican-American citizen, married Guzman in 2007 at the age of 18. The couple have twin daughters. Coronel could be sentenced to life in prison on the one count of drug distribution. The other two charges against her carry maximum prison terms of 20 years and 10 years, respectively. A provisional sentencing date was set by the judge for mid-September.