U.S. demands $12.7 billion in judgment against ‘El Chapo’

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The sum represents the total amount of cocaine, marijuana and heroin that a jury found Joaquin Guzman to have trafficked, multiplied by the average prices of those drugs, according to a filing by prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture in the beach resort town of Mazatlan on Feb. 22, 2014.U.S. authorities said on Friday they were seeking a court order requiring Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to forfeit $12.7 billion following his conviction for racketeering and drug trafficking crimes earlier this year.

It was not immediately clear what assets, if any, the United States could seize to satisfy the judgment. A spokesman for the prosecutors declined to comment.“This is largely an academic exercise as the government has never located or identified a penny of this $12.7 billion in proceeds supposedly generated by Mr. Guzman,” said Jeffrey Lichtman, a lawyer for Guzman.

 

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So Trump is nicknamed El Chapo

There's Your wall money. Since this came from our dumb citizens anyways buying their drugs, we might as well use it to curtail the flow of more drugs.

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