Sarah Krissoff, a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice, speaks with the Wall Street Journal about the latest twist in a billion-dollar Mexican family saga involving the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the world’s most notorious criminal enterprises. Federal prosecutors recently revealed that the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the accused Mexican kingpin captured last year, is a potential witness at his father’s drug-trafficking trial in Brooklyn federal court.

“Family members frequently make up drug-trafficking rings, where loyalty and discretion is prized. Those are the people that you trust,” said Sarah.  “Of course, some defendants end up cooperating with the government against their own relatives to save their own skin,” she added. 

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