Sean Williams

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3,291 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Sep

Sean Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 3.

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Nobody will win this war.

Kogan then reads out the old man's sentence.

Life without the possibility of parole.

Plus a $15 billion forfeiture, the second highest in US legal history, behind the 171 billion copped by fraudster Bernie Madoff in 2010.

Journalists scribble everything furiously in their notepads.

Mayo shuffles uncomfortably in his seat.

Now it's the turn of the prosecutors to speak.

Elmayo was the world's single biggest drug trafficker this century, says New York Eastern District Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr., outside court.

I hope that Elmayo's life sentence brings some small measure of comfort to those families who have suffered so much pain.

Drug kingpins die in prison.

Elmayo's fate is to die in prison.

El Mayo helped transform the Sinaloa cartel into one of the most violent and prolific criminal organizations, adds DEA Administrator Terry Cole.

Under his leadership, the cartel produced and trafficked massive amounts of deadly drugs at industrial scale.

But then, a nod from Cole.

This story isn't over.

An operation of that size, he says, could not survive without violence and trafficking alone.

Corruption was essential to Elmayo's criminal enterprise.

He used bribery, influence and intimidation to shield the cartel from justice, both within Mexico and beyond its borders.

Today is a great day for law enforcement, adds Cole.

But let me be clear, this sentencing is not the end.

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