mexican drug lord el chapo appearing in
a New York City courtroom this morning
US Marshals escorted him from his high
security jail cell in Manhattan el chapo
is charged with running a massive drug
trafficking operation that involved in
money laundering kidnapping and murder
prosecutors are also demanding he had
over 14 billion dollars in assets
diana is reporting live from the
courthouse in Brooklyn right
hi John well joaquin guzman or el chapo
known as shorty came here for his
pre-trial hearing in federal court in
brooklyn US authorities are accusing
that El Chapo spent 30 years leading the
Sinaloa cartel a multi billion-dollar
multinational major drug empire which he
ordered kidnappings and the killings by
hit men of thousands of people he is
facing 17 federal charges including
money laundering drug smuggling and as
well as the continuing running of a
continual criminal enterprise he is
pleading not guilty and if he is
convicted he faces life in prison at a
press cut a news conference after the
hearing today is his lawyers who are
public defenders said that the
extradition from Mexico to the US could
be illegal they cited the fact that the
document may have been done
inappropriately not citing charges that
were made here in the New York District
Court also his wife that have seen the
yellow scarf their 27-year old Emma
spyro she's a beauty queen originally
from California she was in court today
both of them smiled at each other
see she said she's doing well aerial
show this morning that he was
transferred from the high-security jail
in downtown at hand here to brooklyn the
judge originally wanted him to have a
video conference because they wanted
they had security concerns but he
insisted that he wanted to be in court
today in person remember this was a
surprise extradition that happened on
january nineteen right before president
Trump's inauguration as part of that
deal
he's not allowed to face the death
penalty and he's also not facing any
murder charges and you take a look at
these photos these are photos on that
night when
he was extradited here in the United
States one immigration officer said that
you can clearly see the surprise and the
fear on his face
remember he escaped twice for maximum
security prison in Mexico he is now
being held currently at the Metropolitan
Correctional Facility a very ultra high
security prison and a wing known as the
shoe which used to hold the mob boss as
mob bosses as well as associates to some
of the lot and listen to what is public
defenders had to say after the hearing
he's locked in a cell for 23 hours a day
the only permitted out to speak to
limited members of our office and one
hour of exercise a day it's extremely
restrictive we believe he should be
allowed permission to eventually visit
with his wife he's due back in court in
May John Ryan units in Brooklyn forest
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