El Mayo,” the elderly Mexican drug lord who took over “El Chapo’s” notorious cartel, skirted the death penalty in Brooklyn federal court Monday — after admitting to murdering “many innocent people.”
“Narco terrorist” Ismael Zambada, 75, the once shameless righthand man of the ruthless former Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin Guzman, apologized for the duo’s decades-long drug trade while pleading guilty to a count each of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and racketeering conspiracy.
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