Disgraced Olympian Ryan Wedding smirked as he was hauled into California court in shackles Monday — denying that he ran an El Chapo-like drug empire that the judge called “a crime of violence.” Sporting a full beard and greasy, slicked-back long hair, Wedding entered the federal courtroom in Santa Ana wearing beige prison garb and a bright-orange T-shirt, shackled at the wrists and ankles and escorted by three US Marshals. In the packed courtroom, which included alleged victims, Wedding sat to the right of his attorney Anthony Colombo, smiling broadly and laughing at times as the two spoke before the brief ... (full story)