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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Wives of Chicago Twins Who Helped Convict El Chapo Charged in Money Laundering Case

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Pedro Flores (left) and his twin brother Margarito Flores, once Chicago’s biggest drug traffickers, rose from street-level Chicago drug dealers to the top of the cartel world — and, when they got caught, helped bring down Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin who headed the Sinaloa Cartel.

At their sentencing in 2015, a federal judge told the brothers they’d always have to worry about being hunted down by cartel hit men after cooperating with prosecutors against Sinaloa drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera.

The wives of the Flores brothers — the most significant drug informants in U.S. history — have been named as defendants in a money-laundering case in Chicago, according to federal prosecutors.

Vivianna Lopez, also known as Mia Flores, 40, and Valerie Gaytan, also known as Olivia Flores, 45, have been charged with conspiring to launder illicit drug proceeds for more than a decade, U.S. Attorney John Lausch’s office announced.

Their husbands are Pedro and Margarito Flores, known as the Twins, who were each sentenced to 14 years in prison for their roles in international drug trafficking.

The charges allege that, after the Twins surrendered to authorities in December 2008, the two women and others spent the next dozen years hiding drug money at multiple locations — including a home in Chicago and another in Texas — and spent it on themselves and the imprisoned brothers.

“These two nitwits have played innocent for years now and they were very much involved in the movement and hiding of money,” Jack Riley, the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in Chicago, said of the Twins’ wives. “We knew that early on, but it was very difficult to prove.”

Riley says the women have betrayed the U.S. government, which got them out of Mexico after their husbands agreed to cooperate with prosecutors here against Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

“We bent over backwards, more so than I have ever seen, to safeguard them and get them out of Mexico,” Riley said of the women and their family members.

Also charged are Armando Flores, 52, of Texas; Laura Lopez, 58, of Chicago; and Bianca Finnigan, 32, of Sycamore northwest of Chicago.

They and the Twins’ wives are accused of spending more than $165,000 of laundered money on private school tuition, more than $99,000 on international and domestic travel, more than $80,000 on rent and $11,000 on child support.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported earlier this year that Pedro and Margarito Flores were once again under federal investigation. That news came six years after a federal judge in Chicago rewarded them with relatively light 14-year prison sentences in exchange for their extraordinary cooperation against Guzman.

The Flores brothers have admitted they smuggled at least 1,500 kilograms of Sinaloa cartel cocaine into the United States every month between 2005 and 2008. And, according to their guilty pleas, they sent more than $930 million in “bulk cash” back to the cartel in Mexico.

A court filing last year revealed that “the government no longer holds the view that all recoverable proceeds were turned over to the government.”

The women previously published a book, “Cartel Wives,” in which they wrote under pseudonyms and described having had access to unimaginable riches in Mexico. They said the Twins showered them with red roses by the dozens, 10-carat diamond wedding rings and getaways at luxury resorts in Puerto Vallarta. 

They lived in a mountaintop estate with a private zoo including horses, monkeys and a tiger cub.

In the book, the wives said their husbands amassed a fortune made of “dirty money with a trail of bodies behind it.”

Chicago Sun Times

62 comments:

  1. Jajaja pendejas 🤣. I bet they regret appearing on TV and doing interviews.

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  2. One of the twins wives, "Valerie Gaytan, also known as Olivia Flores" you can see her at the end of rapper DMX music video Where The hood when it plays a tribute song to Kato a latin king if i'm not mistaken. Can't trust women like these, the true definition of a hoodrat

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    1. Kato was a backstabbing thief and when you take 100 kilos of coke that don’t belong to you it is obvious that something might happen.

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    2. Can’t trust women you said. Can you trust people like Kato? He stole kilos of coke from his childhood friend.

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    3. whether he stole 100 kilos or not she is still a hoodrata 😂

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    4. I think Kato got what was coming for him. 150 kilos of cocaine is not pocket change. He got killed because he was a rat.

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    5. 7:22 I believe that in any other situation of stealing what doesn't belong to you. I think Kato acted out of pride because his wife was being taken by a Flores twin from him. That's nothing for revenge if you ask me. That hoodrat wife of his knew his buyers, so it is possible that she and Flores conspired to kill him. They put him in that position by their own actions. The twin was just waiting for a reason. The hoodrat also aborted Kato's child after his death and completely demonized him as an abuser at home vs the word on the streets that he as compassionate and humble person. Oddly the previous drug dealing man that the hoodrat had before Kato was also killed. She despised him for being an informant. She is a hypocrite and a manipulative liar. Her book wreaks of vanity, self grandeur, and deceit. She tries so hard to put these bitch twins in a good light. Let this hoodrat piece of shit get served right too

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    6. @1:23 spot on. I'm talking about his hoodrat wife and dude is over here crying about stolen drugs 😂 way off topic but damn can't turn a h*e into a housewife especially V

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    7. Dude is crying lol. What a clown. I can care less if she is a hoodrat. My point was totally clear from the beginning. Kato got killed for stealing drugs. And by the way. The woman left with that dude after Kato was killed. Not before.

      Kato was a rat. A two face rat.

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  3. A BRONZE STATUE OF A ROOSTER WILL SET TO BE PLACE IN FRONT OF MARISCOS LA GRULLA IN LITTLE VILLAGE TO PAY HOMAGE AND RESPECT TO THE KING MENCHO WHO THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO HAVE GROWN TO LOVE SO MUCH😀😀😀
    STOP BY AND PAY YOUR RESPECTS.

    OJALA Y EL SEÑOR MENCHO VIVA 100 AÑOS.

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    1. Make sure it has the scent of feces to celebrate his home land tierra cagada

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    2. las más grandes ratas del narcotráfico los gemelos flores y son de Jalisco

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    3. @948
      Pendejo, nacieron en chicago y secrearon entre chicago y sinaloa margarito flores 1ro nacio en sinaloa, putos jotos chismosos de sus marikadas siempre se kieren lavar las manos. AUNQUE Aigan nacido en jalisco, la puta escuela de los sinaloenses tenian. Llorar y mitotear cuando ya la tienen adentro....

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  4. I ran into Valerie Gaytan shopping for groceries at a store. She has a fat ass I mean a really nice big plump fat ass. 10/10 would grab except for the fact she might have a gun on her legally you can carry in the state I am at so I didn't want to take any chances. As I was leaving the store I noticed she was looking back at me like she knew I knew she was Valerie. She then went to a car that wasn't hers and I went to my shit box put my shit in the car and left and that was the last time I seen that double melon of an ass dang no wonder one of the twins had Kato killed.

    She wasn't really hiding or anything first thing I noticed was the ass then the face she still looks like the chick that comes out on the DMX video except older. But that ass man that thing is what all these hoes want and inject fat in their asses and what not. That thing was ole natural ale.

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    1. A friend of mines uncle was married to her in 90s. One of the satin diciples. Her first marriage. Baby D.

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    2. Too bad you didn’t have sic 006 iPad he borrowed from his mom to get an in depth look.

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    3. It’s not real but I’d take her down for sure 💯 Mia not so much she’s too pale

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    4. "No wonder the twins had Kato killed" You say that like it all makes sense and its totally understandable now that you saw how big her ass was. So its obvious you are either a murderer with a girl/wife with a big butt who happens to be a widow or all you past and present girls had lil bootys.

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    5. So this girl went from being married to a satan disciple to 2 latin kings? HOODRAT

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  5. I wonder if Emmita is singing las mañanitas or the twins buchona wives are running their mouth as they like to do? Also one of the girls had a kid with Kato from Latin kings and her dad is a retired Chicago cop, you’d thing she’d be wiser but money and luxury items don’t teach you morals and values!

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  6. Gracias Sol
    You’re on it. Hope you didn’t quit your day job.

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    1. That would be crazy if they both end up in the same federal detention facility with Emma. Imagine how awkward that’d be. I’m sure there would be a lot of mad dog looks.

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    2. I dount theyll end up together. Conflict of interest. Theyll put a keep sep on em. I know i was locked up. You usually cant be near codefendants or people who ratted on you. Sometimes theyll let you be with an immediate family member if the warden approves it. Which 9 times outta 10 they dont give a fuck

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    3. If you were locked up and know them you’d know it’s called “incompatible” not a keep separate. Go back to school wannabes

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    4. Sol, at least you're not talking to yourself with your other account "Queso".

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  7. Was beginning to wonder if any charges would ever happen on these women. They are as guilty as their convicted husbands.

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  8. No shit, the wife's are just has dirty

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  9. Drain these hoes

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  10. Karma will always get u in the end. Im no cheerleader for any cartel but these 2 fags deserve everything coming to them.

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  11. https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/1086519_1.jpg

    Lol

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  12. I just watched American greed and it shows the wives talking about all the money their husbands made in the drug gang and I was absolutely shocked they would be that stupid to say that shit on live tv. They built a case against their selves

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    1. They think bragging about some chump change makes them special. They’re all a bunch of hood rat RATS that’s it nada mas

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  13. Onother ONE bitter the dust
    EVERYONE wants to be famous EVEN if it incriminates THEM..
    Dumbos..

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    1. Why use capitals when not needed.?

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    2. 842
      Why ask stupid questions when not asked.?

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    3. In a site where people cheer for cartels someone using CAPS really bothers you?

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    4. 7:07 fuken yesssssssss!

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    5. 8:42 why you such a B!+@H ? Lol

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  14. THE FLORES TWINS ARE THE PERFECT POSTER BOYS FOR WHAT C.D.S REPRESENTS = SNITCH SNITCH SNITCH.

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    1. Sorry I don't read comments with all capitals.

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    2. y son de Jalisco. joked on you.

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    3. But you reply to them? 😂😂 some readers are definitely retarded.

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    4. @951
      Represents the stupidity of majority of CDS cheerleaders 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ they were born and raised in Chicago.

      Margarito Flores SR was born in Sinaloa.

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    5. Más pendejas no pueden ser esas sinalocas 🤦‍♂️

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  15. Would be interesting if these two birds snitch on Mencho/Menchita to save their tails

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    1. Wtf would these 2 bimbos from chicago have on menchita???

      Also, jack riley sucks- even the lead district attorney said this case was a gigantic waste of time and money- and didnt change anything

      Keep fighting that “good fight” jack smh… what a total retard

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    2. Wtf would these 2 bimbos from chicago have on menchita???

      Also, jack riley sucks- even the lead district attorney said this case was a gigantic waste of time and money- and didnt change anything

      Keep fighting that “good fight” jack smh… what a total retard

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  16. Maybe some judge will revoke their 14years cause of hiding money. They get more years on top . The wife’s go to jail as well, that’s what I call family reunion :)

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  17. Are these women Sinaloenses?

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    1. los flores son de Jalisco compa.

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    2. I mean the women are they Mexican descent if so what part? someone said Valerie’s dad was a cop just wondering thanks for your response though

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    3. The broads are of Puerto Rican descent. Margarito Sr was from Sinaloa

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    4. No, Sr. & Mom from Zacatecas

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    5. 9:52 The brothers are SNITCHALOAS
      How coyld you NOT notice? 😆

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  18. CDS cartel de los sapos!

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  19. Great. Where is Rafael Caro Quintero?!?

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