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El Chapo is sentenced to life behind bars and told to forfeit $12.6 Billion to the US government at dramatic court hearing
El Chapo has been sentenced to life imprisonment plus 30 years after a dramatic sentencing hearing in Brooklyn where he pleaded for mercy and complained about the conditions inside his New York City cell. The 62-year-old broke his silence to make a statement, his first throughout his months-long legal saga. Speaking through a translator, he complained that he was 'tortured 24 hours-a-day' in his solitary confinement cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where he has been since January 2017. He also complained that he was denied a fair trial, that the judge failed to investigate claims of ... (full story)
