Cartel Boss El Mayo Sentenced to Life After Wild Betrayal
Decades on the run ended because he wanted to look at real estate. Now El Mayo is spending the rest of his days in a US prison.
After dodging law enforcement for nearly four decades, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada didn't get caught by some massive SWAT raid or military sting. He got tricked onto a private plane by his business partner's son under the pretense of touring real estate, only to be flown straight to Texas and handed over to federal agents.
Now a US federal judge has handed the 76-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel a life sentence without parole, plus a $15 billion forfeiture order that nobody will ever actually collect. In court, he offered a classic villain monologue, telling the younger generation to choose a different path than the one that made him billions alongside El Chapo.
A guy spent 40 years running a global cartel empire only to fall for the oldest real estate trick in the book.
Source: The New York Times
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