The feds pointed out that the money was generated “through the sale of thousands of kilograms of drugs in the United States drugs that harmed individuals and communities in countless ways.”
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CHICAGO — Chicago-born Margarito Flores Jr. was around 8 years old when his father started taking him and his twin brother Pedro on car rides to Mexico. It was mostly business for his father, a hard-scrapping immigrant making ends meet by hauling drugs across the border. But for the twins, it was an education — and an adventure. As their father, Margarito Flores Sr., drove through the .
The Latino legal community has built a pipeline of qualified Latinos for the judiciary. The Cook County Democratic Party should do its part and slate a Latino for a seat on state Supreme Court.
The wife of Chicago drug kingpin Pedro Flores, who with his twin brother helped bring down Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, was sentenced Monday to 3 ½ years in prison for hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars from the feds.