Shorty's Caught. Now What?

Part of the United States' case against the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera (El Chapo, Shorty) is to seek $14 billion in restitution in funds from the network of accounts and hiding places that he has created to hold the profits from his drug deals. Fourteen billion dollars is a huge number.

The mile and a half Second Avenue Subway in NYC that just opened cost $4.4 billion. Just think how much further downtown it might be able to go if another $14 billion were to become available. It might even reach 14th Street. The Second Avenue Subway could then be longer than the tunnel that was dug underneath his prison shower that provided his last means of escape from imprisonment. It is positively poetic.

The problem is, everyone will want a piece of the $14 billion dollars if it is actually recovered. Considering that President Trump campaigned on the promise that we were going to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, and that Mexico was going to pay for it, what better way to fulfill a campaign promise than to use El Chapo's $14 billion to build the wall?

If there's any money left over, it should go to adding a stop or two to the Second Avenue Subway. In any direction.

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