Blockades also had to be removed for the El Chapo conviction
• The case was investigated by the DEA, HSI and the FBI, in cooperation with Mexican, Ecuadorian, Netherlands, Dominican, and Colombian law enforcement authorities.
• Substantial assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in the Northern District of Illinois, the Western District of Texas, the Southern District of New York, the Southern District of California and the District of New Hampshire.
• The original, tentative date for the El Chapo trial was April 16, 2018.
• Prosecutors have been pooling together evidence for over a decade across the country and across the border. Why didn't they act sooner? Because of a blockade…
Cooperation
• While the trial was under the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, among others, provided assistance
• Preet Bharara was in place as U.S. Attorney of SDNY from 2009 - 2017.
• Bharara was fired after he refused to follow AG Sessions' request for all remaining 46 U.S. Attorneys appointed during Barack Obama's presidency, including Preet, to resign.
• Sessions replaced him with Geoffrey Berman who became the official U.S. Attorney of the SDNY on April 25, 2018
• Furthermore, AG of NY Eric Schneiderman, also part of the Blockade crew, resigned May 7, 2018, after Allison Mack sang like a bird (NXIVM). Schneiderman's removal is also extremely relevant to keeping the wheels of justice turning.
Justice
• The El Chapo trial finally began in New York City in Nov 13, 2018, in a Brooklyn federal court under the jurisdiction of the Eastern District of New York
• U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue of the EDNY was assigned by Sessions, who said of Donoghue he's someone "who has tremendous experience prosecuting MS-13."
• El Chapo bribed many government officials, including former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who famously had spats with Trump, and who eventually bent the knee and awarded Jared Kushner Mexico's highest honor
• There is no doubt in my mind that El Chapo's dealings are directly related to U.S. political corruption. It's only a matter of time before this is exposed.
• The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they've always been turning: https://qmap.pub/read/2381
References
• Geoffrey Berman: https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/5-things-to-know-about-new-us-attorney-geoffrey-berman.html
• Richard Donoghue: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-appoints-richard-p-donoghue-interim-united-states
• Official Statement by the DOJ of El Chapo's Conviction: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-sinaloa-cartel-leader-convicted-running-continuing-criminal
• More on the trial: https://abcnews.go.com/US/mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-trial-april-2018/story?id=47226841
• More on the trial: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joaquin-guzman-el-chapo-trial-new-york-city-brooklyn-begins-today-2018-11-13/
• More on the trial: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45757800
• Bribing former Mexican President: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872414
• Bending the Knee: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/a-humiliation-outcry-after-mexico-president-gives-highest-honour-to-jared-kushner
• Schneiderman: https://qmap.pub/read/1368 https://qmap.pub/read/1433