Gov’t Shutdown Means No Pay for U. S. Marshals Guarding ‘El Chapo’ During Brooklyn Drug-Smuggling Trial

By Stephen Rex Brown and Leonard Greene

The most thankless job in law enforcement is about to get worse.

The U.S. marshals who escort the man believed to be one of the world’s most dangerous drug lords from a jail in Manhattan to a trial in Brooklyn will soon risk their lives without pay.

The armed guards of Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán’s personal escort team are among the legion of federal workers who’ll be without a paycheck if the marathon government shutdown extends into Friday.

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Source: The New York Daily News