Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel arrested last month, has rejected a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking he be taken from Texas to new York, where he would be tried in the same courtroom as his former associate, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
The DOJ asked judge Kathleen Cardone to authorize the move, but she gave Zambada the opportunity to weigh in on the issue, saying that prosecutors did not "make any attempt to articulate why Mr. Zambada García should be removed from the Western District Court of Texas, where the process is already ongoing, to be transferred to the Eastern District of New York."
