CHICAGO — The wife of a Chicago drug trafficker who cooperated against Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Monday for conspiring to hide and spend millions of dollars of her husband’s drug proceeds. Valerie Gaytan, 48, who is married to Margarito Flores Jr., pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, .
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They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.
One of the notorious Flores twins is to lead a seminar at the Kane County sheriff’s office “a rare chance for us to get into the mind of the people we are trying to find,” an official says.