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    50 Cent helps twin brothers who brought down El Chapo tell their story

    by Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2022 6 minutes
    Chicago U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon presented a poster at a 2015 news conference showing a web of suspects charged as a result of the cooperation from Chicago brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores.

    In "Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down a Drug Lord," rapper and businessman Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and journalist Charlie Webster help guide listeners through a conversation that they have with twin brothers Pedro (Peter) and Margarito (Jay) Flores, drug dealers and federal informants whose cooperation led to the indictment of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and many others.

    The first season of the podcast, which premiered Oct. 19, is 12 episodes long. The final episode will be released Wednesday and is produced by Lionsgate Sound and G-Unit Audio in collaboration with iHeartPodcasts. Speaking publicly for the first time, the brothers tell the story of how they grew up in Chicago and were groomed in the ways of illegal drug trading by their father. That life led to another life of on-the-run adventures and many brushes with death. In their own words, they take listeners step by step through their harrowing tales of being kidnapped, finding

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