The Flores brothers - Valerie Gaytan buys 3.5 years

Valerie Gaytan is jailed for stashing away $2.3m in drug money. Gaytan and Lopez turned over $4.2m in drug money in August 2010 and claimed it was all that remained from their husband's trafficking. Gaytan stashed millions more with the twins’ brother, Armando Flores.

When they were charged in 2021 with money laundering related to their husbands' millions, the Flores wives filed a motion to dismiss, claiming the government promised them immunity. ‘Cartel wives’ Vivianna Lopez, 42, and Valerie Gaytan, 47, 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 cartel wives used drug money for lavish trips in 2018 and 2019, flying to Las Vegas for a Jennifer Lopez concert and to the Turks and Caicos islands, Dubai, Greece and Italy. The wives blew $20k to $30k in cash per trip. The money came from anonymous sources in the mail. In 2010, Gaytan turned over $4.2m in drug proceeds to the government, but she didn’t hand over everything. Millions in cash was sent to her brother-in-law Armando Flores.

Gaytan faced more than 11 years in prison under sentencing guidelines. Drug money paid for schools for children, Lopez’s student loans and even her $3,100 exercise bike. She faces 9 years. Gaytan and Lopez both agreed to the government’s forfeiture request of more than $500k in cash. See ----->El Chapo sentenced to life in prison - ADX Florence looming

The Flores twins learned the drug trade from their father. By age 17 they were the largest cocaine dealers in Chicago.

El Chapo was convicted in 2022 and sentenced to life.

Margarito and Pedro Flores operated a cocaine franchise in Chicago on behalf of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. Pedro Flores told a federal jury they returned over $800m to the Mexican cartel. The Flores got 14-year sentences in 2015 but were released into the witness protection program in 2020. The twins imported tons of cocaine from 2005 to 2008.

The Flores brothers operated in Chicago's Little Village.

The Flores sold 38 tonnes of El Chapo’s products to 30 major customers using an army to move both drugs and money.

Salvatore 'Sam' Cardinella - Daylight Savings Time

In the fall of 1920, the leader of a violent gang, Salvatore “Sam” Cardinella, was convicted of murdering a barkeeper. Cardinelli led one of the most dominant Black Hand gangs in Chicago prior to Prohibition. That year, Chicago City Council passed a daylight saving ordinance saying the city's clocks must adhere to the time change. Cardinella’s gang had a hand in at least 20 murders and hundreds of robberies. Sentenced to death by hanging on April 15, 1921, Cardinella came up with a last ditch effort to save his neck from the hangman - daylight savings time. He got his extra hour, but was then hanged at 10:26 a.m. on April 15, 1921.

Edward G. Robinson shot to stardom in the role of Rico, loosely based on mobster Salvatore ‘Sam’ Cardinella, in Mervyn Leroy’s Little Caesar and Public Enemy (1931)

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro - Diabolik dead

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro's condition deteriorated and after a short time in a ward at L'Aquila's San Salvatore hospital, he died. The intestinal surgery he underwent on August 8 was successful but the mobster has advanced colon cancer and it is progressing. He was in intensive care in hospital for a month. God should have no difficulty with this black soul.

Diabolik, 61, was caught in January at a Palermo cancer clinic after 30 years on the run.

Matteo Messina Denaro, 61, once dubbed 'the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia', is too sick to be in prison, according to his lawyers. In January, Messina Denaro was busted on his way out of a private clinic, where he was being treated for cancer under the false name of Andrea Bonafede. He was operated on for colon cancer in 2020 and 2022. The bloody mafia boss has stage four cancer. This means that the cancer has spread. One wonders how Matteo Messina Denaro's foul soul will fare in the afterlife.

Messina Denaro was being treated for cancer at Palermo's La Maddalena private hospital.

Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a clinic in Sicily after 30 years on the run. He will be jailed for two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that killed anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife and their bodyguards.

Denaro was tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders.

Messina Denaro, Diabolik, is one of the successors of Bernardo Provenzano, who was arrested while in hiding in a farmhouse outside Corleone, Sicily, in April 2006. Messina Denaro was born to a Mafia boss in Sicily on April 26, 1962. See ----->Hunt for mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro - Diabolik

The Jalisco Cartel New Generation - 'Cártel del Tabaco'

The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación - CJNG) has been increasing the production and sale of illegal cigarettes in Mexico through a group known as the Tobacco Cartel - Cártel del Tabaco. The Tobacco Cartel makes cigarettes and forces vendors to sell them. Business owners and distributors of other cigarette brands were given fake letters from government departments that state cigarette brands other than those distributed by TIH are illegal and cannot be sold in Mexico. The Federal government says no such letters exist. It is run by three brothers who own cigarette factories in the State of Mexico, Jalisco and Campeche. Production is carried out under three companies, Sijara International Manufacturing, Braxico Manufacturing and Burley & Virginia Tabaco Company. The first two are subsidiaries of Tobacco International Holdings. (TIH)

Since 2017, stocks of other cigarette brands have been destroyed and vendors have been threatened, tortured and shot for not complying. TIH is a “Swiss-founded company for the exclusive purpose of having the rights of the brands registered in Mexico.” Those brands, Laredo, Botas and Económicos among others, are all much cheaper than better-known cigarette brands. The illegal cigarette business is growing rapidly in Mexico. “Seize and destroy operations” of non-TIH smokes have been carried out by municipal, state and federal police, according to people targeted by them. The head of the Tobacco Cartel is thought to be Carlos Cedano Fillipini, a former police officer who has worked with several federal agencies including the Attorney General’s office. Known as 'El Rambo', he has links to the CJNG.

In Michoacán, the Tobacco Cartel has distributed flyers to small grocery stores stating that by order of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, only TIH cigarette brands could be sold. The gang produces over 30 cigarette brands, with prices as low as 35 pesos (about $1.75). The price of branded cigarettes is between 62 and 70 pesos. ($3.17-3.58) Mexican-made illegal cigarettes are becoming more popular. About 19% of cigarettes consumed in Mexico are illegally produced, up from 2% in 2011. The registered owner of TIH is José Guadalupe Varela González. He was investigated for drug trafficking in 2006.

Murder of Gregory Slewidge - update X

It has been exactly 3 years since the murder of Gregory Slewidge — a HAMC Ottawa Nomads prospect. Michael Clairoux and Lee Marrazzo will go to trial on a joint charge of first-degree murder in connection with his death. They are charged with first-degree murder for the September 24, 2020 killing and are facing 25 years with no parole. Evidence presented at the preliminary inquiry cannot be reported due to a publication ban. Slewidge was found dead of sustained blunt force injuries consistent with a hard object. Slewidge rented the Beckwith property where he died and had converted the former abattoir into a legal marijuana grow operation.

Both men have been caged since their arrest Jan 18, 2022. The duo were denied bail and will be caged for the duration. Their trial is scheduled for Oct. 28 to Dec. 6, 2024. The Ottawa-based Hells Angels Nomad chapter has its clubhouse on Piperville Road in Carlsbad Springs.

Michael Clairoux in 2013.

Clairoux is a former member of the Hells Angels from Nepean. Lee Marrazzo has a history of drug convictions with the Ottawa Nomads.

Both men were known to Slewidge.

See ----->HA Gregory Slewidge murdered
See ----->'Panic Attack' ex-HA Clairoux dodges a trafficking bullet

Vikings Motorcycle Club - delusions of grandeur

A defence lawyer made arguments why Vikings MC members should be held blameless for selling cocaine. Wayne Johnson was found guilty of cocaine trafficking but is seeking a stay of charges alongside his co-accused, James Curran and Vincent Leonard, based on cop entrapment. The greyhairs been before the court for 7 years, ever since they were nailed as part of Project Bombard, a joint RNC/RCMP investigation into activities of Vikings MC.

“Not withstanding any delusions of grandeur they may have had, they were a poorly organized group. They didn’t even own the appropriate gear to become a motorcycle club. They didn’t even have bikes.” Johnson and Leonard were also guilty of organized crime offences, the judge accepting the Vikings as a criminal organization associated with the Hells Angels.

Feds foil narco jet plot

Cartel associate Jesus Emanuel Pimentel Enriquez, 41, and Dallas resident Tomas Borjas Mendez, 38, landed prison stints for forking over $600k to illegally buy a plane meant to smuggle cocaine. Cash went to an Orlando plane broker for a Gulfstream G III, parked on a private tarmac at the Sanford Orlando International Airport. He was a federal rat.

The unspecified cartel planned to fly the plane to Mexico and then Venezuela to pick up 2,500 kilos of Colombian cocaine. Drugs were to be divided up in Mexico and sent across the border by truck to several U.S. cities. The plane was intended for a one way mission only.

See ----->Federico 'Fred' Machado - Narco Jet king

'The Hole' - NY mafia graveyard - Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino dead

Former Bonanno boss Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino, the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to turn rat, died after battling a short illness. He was 80. Massino, who ran the Bonanno family with an iron fist from 1991 to 2003, died on Sept. 14. Massino began talking with the feds after he was convicted in 2004 for ordering 25 years worth of murder, racketeering and a slew of other crimes. He had been handed a life sentence, including for the slayings of his three mob captains. He used and later ratted out Vito Rizzuto. He was nailed for the execution of a mobster who had vouched for FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone, who used the name Donnie Brasco, in the 1980s. It became the subject of the hit 1997 film “Donnie Brasco,” starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.

A five-block triangular plot of land along the Brooklyn-Queens boundary is known as the Hole. Partially flooded streets, vacant and overgrown lots, abandoned cars with bullet holes and shattered windows, motorhomes, numerous real estate signs, bulldozers, and even chickens are found there. Venturing down the 'Jewel' streets (Emerald, Amber, Ruby, and Sapphire) leads one into a pit, one of which is 30 feet below grade. The neighborhood is neglected.

The Hole is most famous as the site of a mafia graveyard in the early 1980s. John Gotti and his crime family favoured the neighborhood to dispose of bodies. Gotti hid the remains of two high-profile murders there. John Favara was Gotti’s neighbor who accidentally struck and killed Gotti’s youngest son Frank with his car in 1980. The second victim is Tommy DeSimone, a Lucchese family associate who was immortalized by Joe Pesci in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. In 1981, children playing on 78th Street (Ruby Street) came across the hand of Bonanno crime family capo Alphonse 'Sonny Red' Indelicato.

Gerlando Sciascia, Vito Rizzuto, Giovanni Ligamarri and Joseph Massino in 1981.

In 2004 the bodies of Philip 'Philly Lucky' Giaccone and Dominick 'Big Trin' Trinchera were dug up by the FBI. On May 5, 1981 the men were ambushed by four gunmen wearing masks. One of the gunmen was Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.

See ----->The real Donnie Brasco

Brazil navy reels in record 3.6 tons of cocaine

The Brazilian Navy, working with cops, made the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Brazilian waters. The navy interdicted the Palmares 1, 18 nautical miles from Recife, reportedly heading to Africa. The vessel normally carries passengers and small cargo on the coast. 3.6 tons is the largest haul ever. The navy reports from 2020 to date, they have seized 17 tons of cocaine, 4.3 tons of hashish, 695 tons of cigarettes, 113.34 tons of fish, 15.7 tons of marijuana, and 3,146 cubic meters of illegal wood exports.

Sukhdool Singh Gill shot dead in Winnipeg - update II

Sukhdool Singh Gill, 40, entered Canada on a tourist visa in 2017 sponsored by his sister. He never left. He was from a family of wealthy farmers but became a bandit and terrorist. Canadian press have finally figured out something is up and are reporting tactical cops were called to a duplex at 230 Hazelton Drive in Winnipeg. They found Sukhdool Singh Gill, dead. Khalistani separatist Sukhdool Singh Gill alias Sukha Duneke was a wanted terrorist in India. No arrests have been made in his killing.

He hailed from Duneke Kalan village in Punjab's Moga district and was among Punjab's most wanted gangsters. He fled to Canada in December 2017. He was an associate of Lower Mainland gangster Arshdeep Dalla.

Singh was gunned down by two men late Wednesday night. It was reported on Jan 19, 2023 that Arshdeep Singh Dalla's brother, Baldeep Singh Dalla, had fled to Canada on a fake passport. Both men are considered terrorists in India. Gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Jaggu Bhagwanpuria have shared social media posts claiming responsibility for Sukhdool Singh's murder.

In July Punjabi Karanveer Singh Garcha was whacked in Coquitlam. In May it was the killing of Amarpreet (Chucky) Samra in Vancouver. Satinderjit Singh Brar, alias Goldy Brar, accused in the murder of Sidhu Moose Wala, is thought to be on the run in Canada. Lakhbir Singh Landa resides in Edmonton and should have been deported for criminality long ago.