Twin Brothers That Snitched on Mexican Cartels Sentenced in Chicago to 14 years Fiona Ortiz - Reuters
go to original January 27, 2015

This undated photo from a wanted poster released by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Pedro Flores, left, and his twin brother, Margarito Flores.

Twin brothers who ran a massive Chicago distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels but then helped the U.S. government convict more than a dozen drug dealers were sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday in federal court.

Prosecutors praised Pedro and Margarito Flores, 33, for risking their lives to tape one-time Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - now in prison in Mexico - and other cartel members, and asked U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo to consider 10-year sentences.

The government on Tuesday also unsealed expanded and new indictments against alleged money launderers and cartel members, based on evidence provided by the brothers, who were debriefed for months after surrendering to drug agents in 2008.

But Castillo said he imposed a higher sentence "in light of the devastation you caused this city and your country."

Castillo told the Flores brothers - who briefly apologized for their crimes - that they were under a life sentence no matter what the justice system does because they will live in fear of retaliation from the cartel after they are released from prison.

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