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28. January 2010

Harley Is Doomed

Harley-Davidson Incorporated, the iconic American motorcycle manufacturer is doomed. The confidant pitchmen now running the company into the ground understand that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong but they have absolutely no idea what the real disaster might be. Not even Willie G. Davidson, who has often been lionized as the savior of the company, [...]

5. January 2010

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Where The Burgess Case Stands Now

Dave Burgess, the Hells Angel who was imprisoned 18 months ago for the interstate transportation of child pornography is still in prison. The Supreme Court declined last month to consider his case. And, his release now depends on the single most important Fourth Amendment case since Terry v Ohio legalized the “Terry Stop” [...]

19. December 2009

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Feds Want Pagans Patch

Two more plea deals in the federal case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club were filed yesterday. One of the plea deals was signed by former Pagans National Vice President Floyd B. “Jesse” Moore. And, that was the least of the news about this case dumped into the public record on the Friday afternoon [...]

5. February 2010

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The Rabbit Hole In West Virginia

There is an old joke in Los Angeles. The President wants to know who has the best police force so he releases a rabbit into a forest and tells cops from every city to go find it. Three minutes later the Los Angeles Police Department drives out of the forest with a bloody and beaten [...]

4. February 2010

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Your Maine Noise Victims

Andy Ford is mad as a hell and he refuses to put up with you anymore! Andy Ford. Surely you must know Andy Ford! Well then, you must have at least observed that there is a gentle rhythm to the motorcycling year. In most of the United States there is the season of [...]

2. February 2010

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Indicia Warrant From Hell

Kevin O’Neill, a member of the American Outlaws Association currently confined to a cage, recently posted a nice piece on Indicia Search Warrants. If you have not yet read it yet you can find O’Neill’s essay at fedsgonebad.blogspot.com. Indicia (pronounced in-DISH-hee-uh) is a legal term that means “signs” or “indications” and it is the pretext [...]

1. February 2010

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New Judges In Mongols Case

What remains of the 17-month-old, federal racketeering case against 78 members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Club has now been assigned to two judges in separate counties in Southern California. Florence-Marie Cooper, who previously presided over the Mongols case died January 15th. She will be replaced by the Honorable Otis D. Wright and the [...]

31. January 2010

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Jeremy H. “Coal” Steigerwalt

Jeremy H. “Coal” Steigerwalt of Ephrata, Pennsylvania was killed around 7 pm on January 18th after his motorcycle collided with an unidentified vehicle in the northbound lane of Route 222 in Mannheim Township. Steigerwalt died of traumatic brain injury and was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no witnesses to the accident. Police [...]

25. January 2010

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Is The Whole Pagans Case Surplusage

Defense attorneys in the Pagans case last week began filing motions that challenge the prosecution’s basic argument: Which is that motorcycle clubs are criminal enterprises and the way to outlaw them is by using the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute. Three defendants, Martin Nuss, Christopher T. Brunner and Daniel J. Reilly all sought to [...]

22. January 2010

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You Did Not Get The Job

About two weeks ago, a Nevada bawdy house named the Shady Lady Ranch announced an employment opportunity for a gigolo. Maybe as good an indicator as any of how the economy is doing is that 150 men applied for the job. And, yesterday the brothel announced it had hired one of them. Just one. The [...]

21. January 2010

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Judicial Negligence

A Missouri Judge ruled today that it is not a crime to run over a motorcyclist three times. On May 16, 2008, a Friday, a Springfield biker named Dwight “DJ” Parker got an early start on his weekend and went for a ride. He was 44-years-old. He did not make it to 45 because [...]

19. January 2010

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Tommy “Tommy Gun” Martinez

Tommy “Tommy Gun” Martinez died December 24th, 2009. He was a patch holder in the American Latino Motorcycle Association. A.L.M.A. is a one piece patch club in Phoenix and the club lost two brothers in less than two weeks. Max Joseph “Dragon” Aragon died January 3rd as he was returning home from Martinez’ wake. Martinez [...]

17. January 2010

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Florence-Marie Cooper

Florence-Marie Cooper, the presiding judge in the current Mongols case, died late Thursday night. At least partly because prosecutors have hidden so much of the case against the members and associates of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, that case will probably be her least well known. She will probably be remembered longest for being the judge who decided [...]

15. January 2010

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Government Says Mongols Racket Proven

The official government spokesman for the prosecution in the Mongols case said earlier today that the government has proved that the Mongols Motorcycle Club is a criminal organization. The spokesman also said the government still intends to confiscate the club’s patch. So far, 61 of 79 defendants indicted on October 9, 2008 have pled guilty [...]

14. January 2010

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Feds Declare Victory Over Mongols

A woman named Maritza Velazquez, a staff writer for a paper called the San Gabriel Valley News, ran a story about the Mongols case Tuesday. Now this page has to point out how misleading and inaccurate most of what she wrote was. Velazquez story was picked up by the Associated Press Tuesday afternoon and has [...]

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