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Wives of twins who helped bring down ‘El Chapo’ find themselves in spotlight, claiming they have immunity from federal hammer

CHICAGO — On a winter evening a little over a decade ago, as their husbands were busy cooperating against the most wanted cartel boss in the world, Valerie Gaytan and Vivianna Lopez were driving around Chicago’s North Side with more than $4 million in cash in their SUV.

Chicago Tribune

Too big to jail: The story of HSBC and the Mexican drug cartel

If you sell a gram of cocaine on the street you’re going to jail. If you’re complicit in laundering billions of dollars for a drug cartel, your organisation may just pay a fine. Chris Blackhurst recounts the greatest banking scandal in history

The Independent UK

Narcos boss El Chapo moans about ‘unfair treatment’ and ‘health problems’ in US jail

El Chapo, the notorious drugs boss, has penned a grumbling seven page letter from prison complaining he is suffering from memory loss and depression.

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Drug lord El Chapo moans he's being mistreated in US prison and has 'no human contact'

El Chapo has been held in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, but in an astonishing rant, he claims his treatment there is unfair

Daily Mirror

British Virgin Islands Premier arrested as drug agents pose as El Chapo cartel members

Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami on Thursday morning after being caught in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami dressed as cartel members

Daily Mirror

Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sister-in-law of twins who turned against ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty for helping spend drug money

An indictment filed in June 2021 alleged the wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores helped stash away hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money over a dozen years, starting with their husbands’ surrender in December 2008.

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Brother of Chicago twins who helped take down 'El Chapo' admits to burying millions in drug proceeds under porch

CHICAGO — Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores were just 16 when their older brother Armando was arrested in the late 1990s for selling narcotics out of a Cicero auto dealership.

Chicago Tribune

Brother of Chicago’s Flores twins who helped bring down El Chapo admits hiding millions for them

Armando Flores, whose brothers Pedro Flores and Margarito Flores once were Chicago’s drug kingpins, stashed it under his porch in Texas for them after they surrendered in 2008.

Chicago Sun-Times

The real-life ‘Narcos’ agents on the hunt for drug lord Pablo Escobar, the Netflix series and Chicago’s place in drug trafficking

Retired DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña say Netflix took some liberties. But Peña acknowledges unwittingly working with a death-squad leader to locate Escobar.

Chicago Sun-Times

El Chapo case fallout: Wife of top El Chapo associate Pedro Flores never got a deal, feds say

Vivianna Lopez, whose husband Pedro Flores was once Chicago’s biggest cocaine trafficker, ‘did not receive immunity’ or ‘a non-prosecution agreement’ to keep her from being prosecuted for laundering drug money, a prosecutor says.

Chicago Sun-Times

El Chapo’s wife reveals she isn’t really his wife

The woman said she and the drug lord were married “under the law of the divine”

The Independent UK

US releases new wanted photo for El Chapo’s son

Secretary of State has described cartels as threats to ‘global public health, safety, and US national security’

The Independent UK

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