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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Pedro Flores, star witness against El Chapo, tells judge feds gave his wife immunity against prosecution

A courtroom sketch showing Pedro Flores (left) and his twin brother and former partner in crime Margarito Flores appearing before then-U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo in Chicago in 2015. (AP)

The major Chicago cocaine dealer whose cooperation helped bring down Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera testified Monday in federal court in Chicago that he believed his wife had been given immunity from prosecution for collecting his drug debts.

Pedro Flores, 41, testified on behalf of his wife Vivianna Lopez, who’s fighting money-laundering charges, accused of helping stash millions of dollars in drug money after Flores surrendered to authorities in Mexico in 2008.

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