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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 ...

Vivianna Lopez and Valerie Gaytan, wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores, admitted to involvement in a conspiracy to launder millions from their husbands’ drug trafficking business after the men were taken into federal custody.

The women have argued they cannot be prosecute because they were promised immunity by federal agents and the U.S. attorney’s office as part of their husbands’ cooperation against drug lord.

An older brother of the Flores twins — once Chicago’s biggest narcotics traffickers — has admitted he hid millions of dollars of their drug proceeds under his porch in Texas.

Armando Flores, now 53, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges alleging he helped collect millions in drug proceeds in Mexico and the U.S. after the brothers had agreed to cooperate with authorities.