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US judge gives ‘El Chapo’ associate a 28-year prison term

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this Nov. 25, 2013 file photo, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo speaks from the bench in Chicago. Castillo is slated to issue a first-in-the-nation ruling Monday, March 12, 2018, about whether law enforcement stings where suspects are talked into robbing non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses are racially biased. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Ruben Castillo, federal judge, takes swipe at Trump, gives lenient sentence to ‘El Chapo’ witness

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2009, file photo, alleged drug trafficker Vicente Zambada Niebla is presented to the media after his arrest in Mexico City. Zambada, a star government witness at the New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman is being sentenced Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Chicago, where prosecutors are seeking extraordinary leniency for the former cartel lieutenant-turned-U.S. government cooperator. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Judge raps Trump, gives lenient sentence to El Chapo witness

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Chicago US court suspends some civil cases during shutdown

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Judge: Alleged cartel bodyguard can’t examine torture claim

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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2013 file photo, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo speaks from the bench in Chicago. Castillo is slated to issue a first-in-the-nation ruling Monday, March 12, 2018, about whether law enforcement stings where suspects are talked into robbing non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses are racially biased. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

US judge: Fake ATF stings should become a relic of the past

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

The Latest: Federal judge says phony ATF stings should end

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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2013 file photo, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo speaks from the bench in Chicago. Castillo is slated to issue a first-in-the-nation ruling Monday, March 12, 2018, about whether law enforcement stings where suspects are talked into robbing non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses are racially biased. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

US judge: ATF stings should be ‘regulated… to the past’

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman, the head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City following his capture overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. On Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, at federal court in Chicago, a U.S. judge sentenced Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, a reputed lieutenant of Guzman, to 22 years in prison for his role in a $1 billion trafficking conspiracy, saying the stiff sentence should send a message to traffickers everywhere. The case is regarded as one of the U.S. government's most important against Mexican cartels. Guzman remains jailed in Mexico and Mexican authorities haven't said if they might extradite him to Chicago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

U.S. judge sentences cartel lieutenant to 22 years

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

Chinese-born American acquitted of espionage

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‘Significant’ Mexican drug lord in U.S. court

By Jerry Seper