Laterite posted:

"no yellow" jfc

Torpor posted:

that’s the least offensive thing about that conversation, loving somehow

Raskolnikov38 posted:

and yet is the only thing the nypost managed to focus on lol

Delta-Wye posted:

i thought china was the one country that knew what to do with landlords

quote:

The wives of Chicago twins Pedro and Margarito Flores, who cooperated against Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested Tuesday on money laundering charges alleging they helped hide and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of their husbands’ drug proceeds over more than a decade.

An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court charged Vivianna Lopez, 40, also known as Mia Flores; Valerie Gaytan, 45, also known as Olivia Flores; and three others with conspiring to launder illicit drug proceeds in Chicago between 2008 and last year.

According to the indictment, the defendants laundered drug trafficking proceeds generated by the Flores twins, West Side drug traffickers whose decision to cooperate with federal authorities in 2008 led to arguably the biggest drug case ever brought in Chicago, with charges against El Chapo himself as well as many of his top underbosses.

Also charged in the money laundering conspiracy were the twins’ older brother, Armando Flores, 52, of Round Rock, Texas; Laura Lopez, 58, of Chicago; and Bianca Finnigan, 32, of Sycamore, Illinois, who is the sister of Vivianna Lopez.

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Sources said Finnigan is the sister-in-law of corrupt former Chicago cop Jerome Finnigan, who was sentenced to prison in 2011 for leading a rogue group of cops in the department’s elite Special Operations Section.

Court information for Armando Flores was not immediately available.

The Flores twins’ wives are both the daughters of Chicago police officers and grew up in the city. Valerie Gaytan, Margarito Flores’ wife, was previously married to Latin Kings gang leader Rudy “Kato” Rangel, who was murdered at a West Side barbershop nearly two decades ago.

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"I did become a corrupt police officer," Finnigan said. "Those were not my intentions."

Finnigan, 48, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for being part of a rogue group of cops in the department's elite Special Operations Section who carried out robberies, home invasions and other crimes across the city.

Finnigan became especially notorious because he ordered a hit on a fellow officer who he believed was cooperating with investigators looking into the corruption.

Prosecutors, who spent five years investigating the SOS scandal, acknowledged that Finnigan was at one point an outstanding officer. But he became a "cautionary tale" for all police officers, who are among the most powerful public officials, said assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Netols.
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When the SOS allegations surfaced five years ago, Finnigan was considered the ringleader of a group of officers who between 2002 and 2006 targeted people -- most of them drug dealers -- for robberies to seize drugs and money. The officers pocketed the cash.

The SOS was disbanded in 2007 amid what became an unusually long investigation by the Cook County state's attorney's office and the U.S. attorney's office.

Both state and federal investigators tried to find out from Finnigan and others whether any supervisors knew about the criminal behavior. But the probe failed to go any higher.

Finnigan and three others were hit with federal charges in April. Seven others had already pleaded guilty to state charges. Finnigan pleaded guilty to both the murder-for-hire plot and tax-related charges stemming from the money he pocketed.

Thursday after the sentencing, Netols acknowledged the case was "effectively complete," saying only that investigators had conducted a thorough investigation.

But in his remarks to the judge, Finnigan fired a last shot of sorts at his former employer.

"My bosses knew what I was doing out there," he said, "and it went on and on. And this wasn't the exception to the rule. This was the rule."

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...zdhm-story.html

So the wives of two twins that snitched on El Chapo are being charged with money laundering now. The Feds are quoted in other pieces that they really tried to protect the women, who were working the whole time behind their backs to hid money. Suuuure. There's a whole bunch of places to go with this news in relation to the deep state, but I'm going to focus on a really local angle.

Apparently the family of two of El Chapos biggest hookups in the US were filled with Chicago cops.

The wives being the daughters of cops is uhhhh, interesting. The marriage to a Latin Kings leader isn't that shocking, considering the Flores were apparently connected to the gang.

Just how corrupt was Jerome Finnigan? He was basically a character from the Shield, running a shakedown crew that profited personally from raiding drug suppleirs.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...0907-story.html

So during the mid 2000s one of the biggest drug importers into Chicago was the brother in-law of a Chicago cop who was part of an elite unit that ripped off drug dealers.

Atrocious Joe posted:

Just how corrupt was Jerome Finnigan? He was basically a character from the Shield, running a shakedown crew that profited personally from raiding drug suppleirs.

Bip Roberts posted:

I mean the shield was based on real life cop gangs in LA that did all that so it's not surprising it's SOP in departments everywhere

The Saucer Hovers posted:

years ago there was some gbs superstar that was a PA on the shield. he made me swear to watch it saying it wasnt just some police procedural. maybe its time i keep my word...

Raskolnikov38 posted:

its several seasons of corrupt cops robbing and murdering people

The Saucer Hovers posted:

years ago there was some gbs superstar that was a PA on the shield. he made me swear to watch it saying it wasnt just some police procedural. maybe its time i keep my word...

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1406340363430862848?s=19

sonatinas posted:

I was shopping on Wayfair and everything is named like that it seems. feel like I’m on furniture alibaba sometimes.

lurker2006 posted:

It's got some story arcs throughout the run that elevate the show but any given episode is going to be 45 minutes of a mediocre police procedural.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

meh the vaping thing was nearly entirely tied to people using counterfeit cartridges

Laterite posted:

and from where were these counterfeit cartridges sourced?

Laterite posted:

and from where were these counterfeit cartridges sourced?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

meh the vaping thing was nearly entirely tied to people using counterfeit cartridges

Koslow and Petrache posted:

As in previous cohorts, patients were young, had a history of vaping THC-containing products, and presented with a flu-like illness, including shortness of breath.

Angelica LaVito posted:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released data on what patients were vaping for 867 of the EVALI cases through Oct. 15. Of those cases, about 86% reported using THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. Many said they used both THC and nicotine. Yet 11% said they exclusively used nicotine. Some doctors think it’s possible the 11% who say they only used nicotine may be lying.

Xantus et al. posted:

The present review found evidence of neither harm nor any significant clinical improvement associated with the administration of VEA [Vitamin E Acetate] or any derivatives via any route in adult inflammatory lung conditions however, the articles were of low-level evidence. Further studies are needed to correct [??????????]flaws in research to explore the role of Vitamin E in pulmonology.

CDC posted:

National and state data from patient reports and product sample testing show tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette, or vaping, products, particularly from informal sources [make sure you buy the big brands you know and love!] like friends, family, or in-person or online dealers, are linked to most EVALI cases and play a major role in the outbreak.

"Hall et al., posted:

We agree with our commentators that the EVALI outbreak in the United States demonstrates the need for the better characterization and more effective regulation of all vaping products...
...We strongly agree with Pacula [2] and St Helen [4] that the EVALI outbreak demonstrates the need for the tighter regulation of all vaping products, i.e. those that contain nicotine and cannabis. While the products implicated in the outbreak were illicit, better regulation of the licit cannabis and nicotine markets would have provided greater confidence at an earlier stage that these products were unlikely to be the cause....

nut posted:

gently caress, where did my morning go

Laterite posted: