Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

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December 06, 2023 Episode 10 - Aftermath
Charlie finds out what information the feds used to indict Val and Viv, how they tried to fight their charges and their reaction to being sentenced to prison. Former DEA agent Michael Ferrara who worked the El Chapo case gives his take on the wives’ prosecution and the broader impact the twins’ cooperation had on the war on drugs.

With his wife now going to prison, Charlie poses the question to Jay: Has it all been worth it?
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57 min
November 29, 2023 Episode 9 - Life After Prison
Charlie sits down with the children to get their perspective. Jay discusses adjusting to life on the outside. Within months of the twins being released, their wives, Val and Viv, are arrested on money laundering charges.
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47 min
November 22, 2023 Episode 8 - Freedom
COVID hits the prisons so the twins can’t see their families for months. Jay spends 56 days in hospital. Finally, after 12 years in prison, the twins are released on the November 5th, 2020.
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43 min
November 15, 2023 Episode 7 - Testifying Against El Chapo
Pete takes to the witness stand to lay out the case against El Chapo. He explains to the jury the details of the recorded call and his relationship with El Chapo before being turned over to the Drug Lord’s defense team for questioning.
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33 min
November 08, 2023 Episode 6 - Trial Preparation / Re-Capturing El Chapo
After an intense manhunt, Mexican authorities recapture El Chapo and extradite him to the US. Pete holds the key piece of evidence and spends 18 months prepping with prosecutors to go face-to-face against El Chapo in the courtroom.
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48 min
November 01, 2023 Episode 5 - A Life Sentence
With El Chapo finally captured, the Flores twins can now be sentenced. They are brought together for the first time in five years to discover their fate.
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44 min
October 25, 2023 Episode 4 - The Politics of Prison
Jay and Pete adjust to their separate realities in prison. Jay ends up in a prison with better conditions, while the opposite happens for Pete. Jay puts on a spectacle for Val in the visiting room. Pete’s family visit gets canceled, and the prison is put on lockdown when El Chapo is arrested.
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39 min
October 18, 2023 Episode 3 - Separated
Inside prison, the twins are separated for the first time in their lives. On the outside, their wives are forced to adjust to a life living under the radar. Jay is taken to MCC New York, known as the ‘Guantanamo Bay’ of New York.
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32 min
October 11, 2023 Episode 2 - The Three Bs
Pete and Jay continue cooperating from prison. With a few special privileges they are allowed to see their families. Pete takes advantage of some downtime in the bathroom. This is the start of the infamous three B’s: The Baby, the Bentley and the Billboards.
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38 min

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Identical twins Jay and Pete Flores, who were once North America’s biggest drug traffickers and El Chapo’s right hand men, turned themselves into the U.S. government with the hopes of starting a new,…