Feds want leniency for Flores brothers, despite 'horrific' drug crimes

WLS-TV reports:

If Al Capone is forever the criminal face of Chicago, the Flores brothers are the face of Chicago's illicit drug trade.

Conservatively, federal investigators say that Pedro and Margarito Flores distributed 1,500 kilos of cocaine every month... for years. They made a personal fortune and the drug cartels banked a large fortune because of them.

"This is an almost incomprehensible quantity of cocaine to be distributed in Chicago and other communities throughout the United States, with resulting harm that is incalculable, but without question horrific," said prosecutors in their sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday night with the district court.

Despite the twin dope dealers having operated "at the highest level of drug trafficking in the world...so successful a channel for the cartels that they created massive economies of scale, which made it significantly easier and more efficient for
the cartels to distribute drugs hundreds of kilos at a time with substantially reduced risk," the government is asking for a relatively light sentence because they cooperated.

When the Flores brothers are sentenced on January 27 in Chicago, prosecutors will ask Chief District Judge Ruben Castillo to consider sentencing them to the low end of a previously agreed-upon 10 to 16 years in prison. Prosecutors admit that based solely on their offenses, they deserve life behind bars.

Imagine that.