Thread by @alanfeuer

Under judicial order prosecutors in the Chapo case have just unsealed several docs.
One revelation: Alex Cifuentes, Chapo’s personal secretary, had a procuress send Chapo pics of 13-year-old girls. Young girls could be bought for sex at $5000 a piece. Sometimes they were drugged.

The procuress was named “Comadare Maria.” Alex used the same name for the intermediary who Chapo claimed paid Enrique Pena Nieto the alleged $100 million bribe on his behalf.

Also revealed: the FBI agent who led the failed raid with Mexican Federal Police at Chapo’s mansion in Los Cabo’s in 2012 (he escaped out the back into a thorn bush) believed Chapo was able to flee because of “his ties with high-level officials.”

New from the sealed docs: Evidence that Chapo raped a cooperating witness at the trial before beginning a romantic relationship with her was withheld from the jury. The only female cooperator was his mistress, Lucero Sanchez Lopez.

More: In an interview with the DEA from prison in 1998, Chapo offered to give US federal agents info on “routes and locations” used by his enemies., the Arellano Felix brothers. That’s very early cooperation with American authorities.

More on Chapo’s sexual habits w/underage girls. The government docs say he drugged them with “a powdery substance” in their drinks. He called the youngest of the girls “vitamins,” the docs say, because he believed having sex with them gave him “life.”

I should note that the government released these documents in response to Judge Cogan’s order which followed letters complaining about repeated sealing by The NY Times and Vice.
Sorry about that.

Chapo’s lawyers respond to the rape and underage sex claims.
“Joaquin denies the allegations.”