On an average day, Mexican medication ruler Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman would wake at twelve and make calls while walking around the trees in the mountains of his local Sinaloa state, where he was secluded from everything, an observer as of late affirmed at the boss' preliminary.
The notorious hoodlum's close to home life and business dealings have gone on open showcase since mid-November at a courthouse in New York, where Guzman faces 17 criminal tallies and a conceivable life sentence.
US examiners, who state Guzman amassed a $14 billion fortune by renumeration, murder and pirating drugs, have reinforced their case by calling to the stand law authorization officers just as Guzman's previous partners, including one who says she was his darling and another whose sibling was among his best partners.
The indictment may rest as ahead of schedule as Monday, turning the case over to Guzman's guard attorneys, who guarantee the 61-year-old whose moniker signifies "Shorty" had a littler job in the Sinaloa Cartel than investigators guarantee.
Here are the absolute most vivid stories from ongoing weeks in the court:
HIS OWN WORDS
* Guzman's voice was "sing-songy" with a "nasally suggestion," said FBI specialist Steven Marston. In one recorded call, Guzman tells a partner, "Don't be so brutal ... relax with the police." The accomplice reacts: "You instructed us to be a wolf."
* Text messages among Guzman and his significant other, Emma Coronel, frequently swung to family matters. "Our Kiki is bold," Guzman wrote in one, alluding to one of their little girls. "I'm going to give her an AK-47 so she can hang with me."
* After Coronel said she saw a suspicious vehicle, Guzman kept in touch with her, "You feel free to have a typical existence. That is it." Later he reminds her: "Ensure you erase everything after we're finished visiting."
Darlings AND BUSINESS
* Multiple "spouses" visited Guzman when he was covering up in Sinaloa, said Alex Cifuentes, a previous close accomplice.
* Lucero Sanchez Lopez, a previous Mexican official, told hearers she once had a sentimental association with Guzman, who sent her to purchase and ship cannabis. "I didn't need for him to question me since I figured he could likewise hurt me," she said. "I was confounded about my very own emotions over him. Once in a while I cherished him and here and there I didn't."
* Agustina Cabanillas, an accomplice of Guzman's who called him "love," set up medication bargains by passing data among Guzman and others. In one message, Cabinillas called Guzman a "jolt" who was endeavoring to keep an eye on her. "Prepare to have your mind blown. I'm more astute than him," she composed.
Abnormal amounts OF CORRUPTION
* Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel sustained fixes, some in the a huge number of dollars, to Mexican authorities at each dimension, said Jesus Zambada, the sibling of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who worked close by El Chapo is still on the loose.
* Beneficiaries incorporated a high-positioning police official who nourished Guzman data on police exercises "each day," said Miguel Angel Martinez, a previous cartel supervisor.
* Guzman once paid $100 million to previous President Enrique Pena Nieto, Cifuentes said. Pena Nieto has denied accepting hush money.
* When detained in Mexico in 2016, Guzman renumerated a national jail official $2 million to be exchanged to an alternate office, yet the move was unsuccessful. MURDER
* After an adversary cartel part declined to shake Guzman's hand, he requested the man slaughtered, powering a war between the cartels, Zambada said.
* When professional killers answering to Guzman slaughtered a police official who worked for an adversary, Zambada stated, they attracted him out of his home by imagining they had hit his child with a vehicle.
* Guzman requested Cifuentes to slaughter the cartel interchanges master subsequent to learning he was participating with the FBI. In any case, Cifuentes said he was not able complete the hit since he didn't realize the man's last name.
* When Damazo Lopez Nunez, a best lieutenant to Guzman, told his manager that a Mexican city hall leader needed them to "evacuate" a troublesome cop, Guzman disclosed to him they ought to help her out on the grounds that the city hall leader was a most loved for an up and coming state race, Lopez affirmed. He said Guzman instructed him to make the executing look like retribution from a posse part.
* Lopez likewise said Guzman's children slaughtered a conspicuous journalist in Sinaloa in light of the fact that he distributed an article about cartel infighting against their desires.
* One of Guzman's previous guardians, Isaias Valdez Rios, said he watched his supervisor actually execute three opponent cartel individuals. Guzman shot one of them and requested his subordinates to cover the man while he was heaving for air. On another event, Guzman tormented two men for quite a long time before shooting them each in the head and requesting their bodies hurled into a flaring pit.
SAFE HOUSES AND ESCAPES
* For a time of Guzman's time as a criminal in Sinaloa in northern Mexico, his force lived in "humble pine cabins" with tinted windows, satellite TVs and washer-dryers, Cifuentes said. Around 50 protects shaped three rings around the homes to keep watch.
* Guzman got away into a passage covered up underneath a bath when U.S. specialists attacked one of his homes in 2014, said Sanchez, his darling. She pursued Guzman, who was totally bare, into the section, feeling water stream down her legs. "It was extremely dim and I was exceptionally frightened," she said.
* Guzman's better half helped her significant other passage out of a Mexican jail in 2015 by passing messages to his partners, Lopez affirmed. She unsuccessfully endeavored to enable him to copy the getaway when he was caught the following year.
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