The Aging Rebel

The Vagos racketeering case in Las Vegas continues to crumble under the weight of its own corruption. On September 24 United States Attorney for the District of Nevada Nicholas Trutanich advised defense attorneys in the case that a key prosecution witness named Jefferson Dee “Lunchbox” Martin had been interviewed by prosecutor John Han on September […]

Lurid, widely publicized murder charges against four members of the American Outlaws Association in Florida were dropped late last week. The dismissals were announced yesterday. Public officials often announce what they consider to be bad or disappointing news on Sunday, because that is the day when the general public is least likely to become aware […]

The prosecution against eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club ran into an iceberg yesterday. The defendants are Pastor Palafox, Albert Lopez, Albert Perez, James Gillespie, Ernesto Gonzalez, Bradley Campos, Cesar Morales, and Diego Garcia. Palafox was the long time president of the Vagos Motorcycle Club. Gonzalez was convicted of the murder of a Hells […]

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word that means brazen audacity. The most common, folk definition of the word is “Murdering your mother and your father and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you are an orphan.” Chutzpah connotes such a total denial of individual responsibility that it stuns bystanders speechless. Chutzpah. Pronounced […]

Agostino Brancato has been on the witness stand since August 13. Ponder that. There has been no news of the ongoing Vegas Vagos trial since August 15, at 9:25 a.m. when David Ferrara of the Las Vegas Review-Journal informed the world :An undercover agent who infiltrated a Las Vegas chapter of the Vagos Motorcycle Club […]

If you listen carefully while you read the following brief excerpts from a transcript of an interview former Vagos Motorcycle Club member Gary “Jabbers” Rudnick gave to Detectives John Patton and Rob Begbie and others, in the Washoe County JaiI on February 15, 2012, you can actually hear his soul leaving his body GR: WILL […]

The tragedy of the once venerable Kingsmen Motorcycle Club is finally over. Yesterday, Federal District Judge Elizabeth Wolford sentenced former Kingsmen regional president and national treasurer Timothy “Blaze” Enix to 20 years in prison for Racketeering Conspiracy, possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence and using and maintaining premises for drug distribution. […]

For the last decade FX has been shoveling the impeccable authenticity of its motorcycle club shows down everybody’s throats. The network was still at it Tuesday. Kurt Sutter announced at the premiere of the first episode of the second season of the motorcycle outlaw telenovela, Mayans MC, that he will resign as the television program’s […]

The prosecutors in the ongoing trial of eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club in Las Vegas are trying to convict the defendants of multiple crimes with the help of an undercover cop named Agostino Brnacato and four desperate men. Those four are: Jefferson Dee “Lunchbox” Martin, who was arrested by Department of Homeland Security […]

So far the star witness in the continuing trial of eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club has been a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy named Agostino Brancato. Brancato is a long-time member of the venerable, Los Angeles-based “One Percenter Task Force” which is directly responsible or tangentially involved with most of the biker investigations […]

Peter Fonda, the Hollywood brat who grew up to co-write, produce and co-star in the widely revered biker movie Easy Rider 50years ago, died yesterday of lung cancer. Easy Rider is simultaneously one of the most fondly remembered and worst movies of all time. It lent its name to the first real biker magazine. The […]

This is day four of the Vagos racketeering trial in Las Vegas. Maybe you heard. Maybe you didn’t. If you live within 500 miles of Vegas maybe you have smelled it. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s coverage has been minimal. The case against the Vagos took nine years to duct tape together. After all that the […]

The government has finally painted itself into a corner, in the Mojave in the hottest month of summer so as to keep the national press away, Not that the national press bothers to cover big trials anymore – trials always last very, very, very many news cycles. This is in the city built on stolen […]