The Trump administration's top justice official Pam Bondi hailed a "landmark victory" Monday as Sinaloa drug cartel cofounder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada changed his plea to guilty, meaning he faces life imprisonment and losing $15 billion.

Zambada, 77, cofounded the Sinaloa Cartel with notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. He was arrested in the United States in July 2024 along with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of El Chapo.

"El Mayo will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He will die in a US federal prison where he belongs," Attorney General Bondi told a briefing flanked by prosecutors and federal agents in Brooklyn.

"His partner was El Chapo. They were co-founders of the Sinaloa cartel. They brutally murdered multiple people, and flooded our country with drugs. Their reig

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