In this file photo taken on January 19, 2017 This handout picture released by the Mexican Interior Ministry shows Joaquin Guzman Loera aka"El Chapo" Guzman escorted in Ciudad Juarez by the Mexican police as he is extradited to the United States.Once one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, Mexican drug lord Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday - the mandatory punishment for a host of crimes spanning a quarter-century.
"There was no justice here," Guzman declared in Spanish, expressing no regret as he delivered what were likely his final public words before he is taken to a supermax federal prison to live out his days. US Federal Judge Brian Cogan tacked 30 years onto the sentence and ordered the drug lord to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture - a sum based on a conservative estimate of revenues from his cartel's sales in the United States.In the Brooklyn courtroom, Guzman said prayers from supporters had given him"strength to endure this great torture," which he called"one of the most inhuman that I have ever experienced... a lack of respect for my human dignity.
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