CHICAGO — When Armando Flores’ powerful drug-trafficking brothers decided to flip on the Sinaloa Cartel and its notorious boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Flores knew he had to get out of Mexico. He had gotten married and put down roots there after being deported in 2003, his attorney said in court Wednesday. But it was a dangerous place for family members of cooperators. So he came back, with .
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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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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.”