Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, has told a U.S. federal court he won't fight the life sentence he is about to receive, but he would rather not spend his final years in the same "supermax" prison that holds his old partner, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
In a sentencing memorandum filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn, defense attorney Frank A. Perez wrote that Zambada accepts a mandatory life term and is not asking for anything outside the law. What the defense wants instead is placement.
