Witness in El Chapo trial describes drug lord's wealth, including a private zoo, a $10 million beach house and a ranch in every state
The trial of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán has been underway in Brooklyn, New York, for the past few weeks, with each day bringing new revelations about the massive scale at which the 63-year-old had been running operations. The latest to testify against Chapo was Miguel Ángel Martínez, a former accomplice and top-level assistant who switched sides and became a government witness.
According to the Daily Mail, Martinez laid out the details of the opulent lifestyle Chapo led from the money he made through his smuggling contraband into the United States and other countries, including how the cartel supremo owned private zoos with exotic animals, traveled to Switzerland to receive anti-aging treatments, gifted employees luxury cars, had ranches in every state, and bought properties at every beach in Mexico. "He had houses at every single beach," he said. "He had ranches in every single state."