Overview
- The letter, dated May 7 and received Wednesday by the federal court in Brooklyn, was addressed to Judge Brian Cogan and sent from the ADX Florence supermax prison.
- In the handwritten note attributed to Joaquín Guzmán, he claims he did not harm people in Mexico and says Mexican authorities carried out killings later blamed on him.
- He again asks to be sent back to Mexico under an extradition-related argument, even though the judge has rejected similar requests as lacking legal basis.
- Reporters later cited penitentiary sources who questioned whether Guzmán actually authored the recent letters, and U.S. authorities have not confirmed their authenticity.
- News outlets say this is one of several letters filed in recent weeks, with some counting it as the seventh, as the convicted Sinaloa cartel leader serves a life sentence imposed in 2019.