What is El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro’s net worth?
EMMA Coronel Aispuro, the wife of convicted drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, is facing her own legal woes.
After she was busted on international drug trafficking charges in February, Emma Coronel Aispuro pleaded guilty on June 10, 2021, in Federal Court.
What is El Chapo's wife's net worth?
It is believed that the wife of the notorious drug lord El Chapo has a net worth of $5billion.
She has been accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.
Aispuro was denied bail during a hearing back in February 2021, following her arrest.
The couple has been together since at least 2007 and got married on Aispuro's 18th birthday. Their twin daughters were born in 2011.
Most read in US News
Why was El Chapo's wife arrested?
Emma Coronel Aispuro, 32, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia on February 22, 2021.
The Justice Department said in a news release that she was charged in a one-count criminal complaint with conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five kilograms or more of cocaine, 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and, 500 grams or more of methamphetamines for unlawful importation into the country.
She plead guilty to being a "minimal participant" in helping her husband run his drug empire on June 10, 2021.
El Chapo ran a cartel responsible for smuggling mountains of cocaine and other drugs into the US during his 25-year reign of terror.
His wife was also accused of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015 and taking part in planning a second prison escape before Guzman was extradited to the US.
Prosecutors said during his trial that Aispuro used her visitation privileges, and acted as an emissary between her husband and a team of conspirators, which included her own brother, and plotted his escape by building an almost mile-long tunnel into the shower of his cell.
During her husband’s trial, the prosecutors provided substantial evidence that Aispuro was deeply entangled in his criminal activity.
Aispuro relayed messages for her husband and aided him in shipping drugs dodging arrest, according to court documents obtained by .
Guzman was later sentenced to life in prison back in 2019.
She regularly attended his trial, even when testimony implicated her in his prison breaks.
With her original charges, Aispuro was facing life in prison and the possibility of being fined up to $10 million but with the plea to being a minimal participant, she is expected to receive far less time.
On November 30, 2021, US prosecutors will ask a judge to sentence Aispuro to four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to helping the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Federal prosecutors will also ask District Judge Rudolph Contreras to order Aispuro to forfeit $1.5million as part of her sentence.
Aispuro was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, November 30.
She confirmed for the judge that she understood the charges and the repercussions of her guilty plea.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
“Everything is clear,” she told the judge in Spanish before her interpreter relayed the message in English.