Ovidio Guzmán and Joaquín Guzmán López are negotiating for a plea deal with the US government, their attorney Jeffrey Lichtman confirmed during a federal court hearing in Chicago on Monday.
During Monday’s hearing for Ovidio Guzmán, the federal judge also allowed for him and his brother to be represented by the same attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, who represented "El Chapo" during his 2019 federal trial.
A number of traffickers turned cooperating witnesses testified against "El Chapo" during his trial, including members of "El Mayo" Zambada's family, his brother and one of his sons, Vicente, known as "El Traidor."
"El Chapo" submitted a letter to the Brooklyn federal court, where his trial was held, requesting a new trial, citing “ineffective” counsel and “illegal” extradition to New York.
“The evidence is clear”; “I went to the Supreme Court and they didn't listen to me,” El Chapo wrote.
Although the letter is dated September 25, it was only on October 15 that the process that was taken to the Court of Appeals was completed. However, according to specialists close to the case, the drug trafficker lost his chances of a new trial and his request, in any case, should have gone to the Supreme Court.
Guzmán's team previously sought a retrial in 2019 after a report that jurors were following media coverage of the proceedings, but judge Brian Cogan rejected the request saying a "mountain range of evidence" against the trafficker strongly countered his attorneys' claims that jurors engaged in misconduct.
El Chapo's defense attorney, Jeff Lichtman, said back then that the ruling further demonstrated the trial "was more of an inquisition, a show trial, than an exercise in true American justice." He, added there will always be "a stain of injustice on this case as the jury's rampant misconduct was summarily swept under the rug by the Court and the government." "El Chapo" was sentenced two weeks later.
In his most recent letter, Guzmán accuses his former defense team, led by Jeffrey Lichtman, of providing ineffective representation. He now seeks a new trial on these grounds, though legal experts suggest his chances of success are slim.
Lichtman is now representing his sons, Ovidio and Joaquin Guzmán. Following the publication of El Mayo's letter in mid-August, attorney Jeffrey Lichtman adamantly and repeatedly denied the possibility of a plea deal. As recently as last Friday, he told the Telemundo television network that no such deal existed.
On Wednesday of last week, Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security minister and the architect of the Mexican “war on drugs”, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for working with the Sinaloa cartel.
During his time in office, García Luna had control over Mexico’s federal police and established a close relationship with the US government, working with the CIA, FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Cooperating witnesses testified during García Luna’s 2023 trial that, during his time in office, Sinaloa cartel leaders paid him millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for protection for their drug trafficking operations.
Ovidio Guzmán and Joaquín Guzmán López’s next hearing is set for 7 January 2025, where it may be confirmed whether they will sign a plea deal to become cooperating witnesses for the US government. Their attorney did not say whether they may, or may not, cooperate in the government’s case against "El Mayo."
Sources The Guardian, La Opinion, El Pais
No me importa si 006 se come la mejiga del garrote, esta cabron ese "bisnes".
ReplyDeleteJust send them all to adx with chaparita , I mean u got the whole front line locked up already all there going to do is tell on each other like lil kids , so just lock them up and throw the keys away.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of them is a murderer, distributor, psychopath, homicidal maniac, rapist, child killer, sadistic, pure evil, among many other satanic mutations. They (ALL OF THEM) have turned their entire homeland into a cesspool, where their own grandparents, and God Forbid children are not safe to walk. Yet for some reason you are sympathetic towards these satanic minions??? Apparently you are okay with murder, rape, immolation, torture, sadism, among other horrible things, but you draw the line in the sand at lying?? I doubt you're okay with the atrocities, however drug dealing Mexico, circa 2024, is more about these heinous barbaric acts then it is about actual drug sales.
DeleteChapos trail was finalized a long time ago. No adjustments or amendments.
ReplyDeleteAppeal? That can go all the way up to the Supreme Court
DeleteWith all the hard evidence, homicides,tonnes of drugs that came into the USA. The court threw in life +100 years, 😭 if they cut 50 years..he is still ain't getting out.
DeleteToda su gente matandose por ellos para que al fin terminen siendo US government bitches.
ReplyDeleteLos pendejos que son, se dejan mandar.
DeleteNo se matan por ellos se matan por la paga que es miserable
DeletePendenjo no miras la lealtad que tienen todos son unos chocomilis sea cambian de equipo por hambre no por gusto
Just like Menchito... Lobo... El85...
DeleteSicario 006 giving cabeza to the Feds again to help Chapitos. That puto.
ReplyDeleteChapo is a political prisoner, simple farmer from Sinaloa, hopefully he gets due process and the Supreme Court grants him clemency. MX needs him.
ReplyDeleteyour a funny guy...
DeleteYou're a funny guy..
DeleteBut looks aren't everything! 😹
You really are a funny guy!!!!!
DeleteEl Mayo has way more information and should cut a deal himself IMO
ReplyDeleteHe will, they all do!!
DeleteThe US has even more information than Mayo has through their intelligence capabilities. Mayo is useless.
Delete924 the deal will go to Chapo. Mayo is cooked its payback on a whole different level.
DeleteNo deal will go to sapo or mayate, maybe one of the sons.
DeleteUS govt are the real bosses of CDS, they have MZ and Chapo, nobody in CDS can duplicate their strategic thinking skills.
DeleteDidn’t Mini Leaks say Ivanfredo were talking about all them doing a turn-in and plea together?
ReplyDeleteThat's Koo foo
ReplyDeleteSus.
DeleteDo you think they will run out of people to snitch on?
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ReplyDeleteAnimo Sicarios
ReplyDelete#Freeelchapo
Hey Sicario were you training with The Lord of the Cocks? Since now Ivan is with them 4 letter boys?
DeleteA Sicario 006 le gusta los hombres, es marica. Tengo fotos.
DeleteThe U.S. wanting Mayo so bad, will let the brothers go free after couple years in jail. The question is will they go back to Mexico or stay living large in the U.S. under protective custody since they will be testifying just like el Rey and Vicente.
ReplyDeleteThere's no such thing as "protective custody" outside prison. WITSEC only protects rats while in court, after that they're on their own.
DeleteChapo is deluded if he thinks he is getting out of ADX.
ReplyDeleteDont worry he will switch places with MZ soon.
DeleteComo se los dije esperen el regreso de el Chapo a una carcel Mexicana lo mismo que libre
ReplyDeleteNo hay suerte Para el hombre honrrando
No mms… los gringos solo dejan ir al Chapo cuando fallezca.
DeleteArriva estos informantes de la DEA. Puro Cartel De los Sapos🐸. Que no se cabe la delincuencia.
ReplyDeleteRIP Gilbertona
Chapo bitching about his defense team but the same guys are going to defend his sons in court. That sounds funny.
ReplyDeleteGGL the architect of the "Mexican war on drugs"? That's a big stretch.
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