government's evidence so matter how flawed it may have been no matter how many lunatics and sociopaths and psychopaths that it depended on. el chapo guzman has been held in solitary confinement at a high security new york prison since he was extradited from mexico to the u.s. in 2017. security at his brooklyn trial was tight. twice from jail in mexico most recently through a tunnel in july 2015 a worldwide manhunt followed but authorities only found guzman after invited american actor sean penn and mexican t.v. . to interview him. u.s. prosecutors spent years building the case against detailing an empire of torture contract killings and bribes that went all the way to mexico's former president. may be behind but the cartel that he founded nearly 30 years ago is still powerful