Mia Flores, also known as Vivianna Lopez, tearfully begged for mercy from a federal judge Monday.
Flores pleaded for no prison time, even after admitting she illegally spent a small fortune in drug money made by her husband, Pedro, who turned on his boss, El Chapo. While Pedro was away in jail, the money flowed and now, Ms. Flores is going to prison. This is the first sentencing in a lucrative laundering scheme funded by Chicago cartel profits.Flores was sentenced for laundering drug money made by her trafficker husband-turned-government informant, Pedro Flores.
After the Flores twins flipped on Chapo, made secret recordings with the kingpin and helped put him away, their wives became mini-celebrities. Mia and Olivia Flores were branded as wives of the cartel, doing interviews and writing a book about being married into a drug mob. When their husbands were in prison, authorities said the wives got greedy, spending $869,000 on vacations, cars, clothing, private school tuition and a new business start-up: ironically, a cleaning firm.In court documents, the government asked that Ms. Flores receive at least a nine-year sentence, while she requested probation and strict home confinement.
Soffer said Flores' sentence is no kiss on the cheek, and that Flores didn't help her case by making a spectacle of being a cartel wife. "None of that helped, putting herself out there, making the most essentially of her fame as a cartel wife. That can only hurt at a sentencing before federal judge and almost certainly hurt here too. Although, the biggest issue for her was simply, she did not return the money that she was supposed to return," Soffer said.Mia Flores has to report to prison in October. She is receiving a longer term than even El Chapo's wife, who was handed just three years.
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