El Chapo-branded clothing -- complete with the convicted drug lord's name and signature -- could soon become available in the United States and Mexico
New York El Chapo-branded clothing -- complete with the convicted drug lord's name and signature -- could soon become available in the United States and Mexico.
From his cell in a Manhattan federal prison, Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman signed a contract granting the rights to his name and signature to a limited liability company, or LLC, that will be headed up by his wife, Emma Coronel, and attorneys who worked with him behind the scenes during his recent drug conspiracy trial in Brooklyn. Once the leader of a murderous drug cartel in Mexico, Guzman was convicted last month of running a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges.
Mexico's most dangerous drug cartels 01:29Lambert maintains that the company will not do business with Guzman or with anyone else"alleged to be in his organization," adding that Guzman would not see any profit from the company. "He's not giving us money. He's not giving us proceedings of drug-dealing transactions," Lambert said."Everybody has intellectual property rights to their name, their signature, their identity. None of the money is going to him.
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