SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.

Anthony Marisco, 39, was an executive vice president at Verano Holdings in 2021 when it planned to acquire Minneapolis-based Goodness Growth as a way to get into the New York cannabis market.

Prosecutors allege the reputed Mexican Mafia member oversaw an alliance with the Sinaloa cartel, offering protection to its incarcerated former leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. In 1989 ...