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Wife of Mexican drug lord to face sentencing

US prosecutors will ask a judge on Tuesday to sentence the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to helping the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 32, pleaded guilty in June to three counts of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs, conspiring to launder money and of engaging in financial dealings with the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday also intend to ask district judge Rudolph Contreras to order Coronel to forfeit $1.5m as part of her sentence.

The Us-born former beauty queen who married Guzman while she was a teenager, was arrested near Washington in February.

She admitted to acting as a courier between Guzman and other Sinaloa cartel members while he was in Mexico’s Altiplano prison following his 2014 arrest.

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