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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)

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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)

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This undated photo provided by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York shows Vicente Zambada. On Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, Zambada became the latest in a parade of cooperators to testify as government witnesses in the conspiracy case against Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman at federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Like the others, he described the rampant violence and greed that accompanied Guzman's rise to power atop the Sinaloa cartel. (United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York via AP)

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FILE - In this March 19, 2009 file photo, military officers escort alleged drug trafficker Vicente Zambada during his presentation to the media in Mexico City. Zambada, a former top lieutenant to Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman and likely witness at the Mexican drug lord's New York trial, has pleaded guilty to trafficking conspiracy in Chicago, saying in a plea agreement unsealed Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, that he will cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of a reduced sentence and protection from cartel retribution for his family. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

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