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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A lad of notorious Mexican cause lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to plead blameworthy successful a sweeping U.S. cause trafficking lawsuit astatine a tribunal proceeding acceptable for Friday.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 35, is owed successful Chicago national tribunal for a alteration of plea hearing, tribunal records show. He pleaded not blameworthy successful September 2023 to 5 counts of cause trafficking, wealth laundering and weapons charges.
The proceeding for Guzman Lopez, primitively scheduled for Wednesday, was softly rescheduled with nary nationalist explanation. Court records bespeak that Guzman Lopez intends to alteration his not blameworthy plea arsenic portion of a woody with national prosecutors.
If finalized, it would people the archetypal clip 1 of El Chapo’s sons has struck specified an statement with national prosecutors.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez's brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, was arrested successful El Paso on with Sinaloa kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada past July successful a melodramatic coup for U.S. authorities, who recruited Joaquin Guzman Lopez to lure Zambada into the state connected a backstage plane.
Also known arsenic “El Guero” oregon “Guero Moreno,” Joaquin Guzman Lopez pleaded not blameworthy to cause trafficking and wealth laundering charges, and prosecutors accidental they volition not prosecute the decease punishment against him.
Zambada, who co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo, has besides pleaded not guilty. In February, his lawyer told Reuters helium would beryllium consenting to plead blameworthy if prosecutors agreed to spare him the decease penalty.
El Chapo is serving a beingness condemnation astatine a maximum information situation successful Colorado aft his 2019 cause trafficking conviction.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
