Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican Drug Lord generally known as El Chapo, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in jail, ending considered one of trendy historical past’s most brutal and infamous felony careers.

The life sentence, mandated by legislation on account of the severity of Mr. Guzmán’s crimes, was handed down within the Federal District Courtroom in Brooklyn, the place the kingpin was convicted final winter of Drug, homicide and cash laundering fees after a sprawling three-month trial.

As among the federal brokers who had chased him for years regarded on from the gallery, Decide Brian M. Cogan issued the life time period and Mr. Guzmán, 62, was hauled away to organize himself — pending an enchantment — for spending the remainder of his life behind bars.

Decide Cogan stated the “overwhelming evil” of Mr. Guzmán’s crimes have been obvious. In addition to giving him a life sentence plus 30 years, he ordered the Drug Lord to pay $12.6 billion in restitution.

Talking for a number of minutes earlier than his sentencing, Mr. Guzmán stated he had not acquired a good trial and complained about his imprisonment in a federal jail in Manhattan, calling it “psychological, emotional and psychological torture 24 hours a day.”

“Because the authorities of the USA goes to ship me to a jail the place my identify won’t ever be heard once more, I benefit from this chance to say there was no justice right here,” he stated.

Mr. Guzmán virtually definitely will probably be despatched to the nation’s most forbidding federal jail, the USA Penitentiary Administrative Most Facility, or ADX, in Florence, Colo.

Mr. Guzman’s profession atop considered one of Mexico’s strongest cartels got here to a detailed solely after Mexico agreed to extradite him to the USA in January 2017.