Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada sentenced to life in prison, agrees to $15 billion forfeiture

Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced on Monday to a mandatory life sentence in federal prison after admitting he spent more than five decades helping build one of the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan imposed the sentence in Brooklyn, New York, after Zambada pleaded […]