The Aging Rebel

After deliberating for less than two hours, a jury in Mays Landing, New Jersey found retired Pagan Motorcycle Club member Ferdinand “Freddy” “Miserable” Augello guilty of murdering April Kauffman in May 2012, conspiring to murder April’s husband James Kauffman and of masterminding a prescription drug ring. At least as early as 2011, Dr. James Kauffman, […]

After brief closing statements, a jury in Mays Landing, New Jersey is deciding whether retired Pagan Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello is a prescription drug kingpin and ruthless murderer. Augello is accused of ordering the murder of April Kauffman to either protect his drug empire or because they were lovers and they had a quarrel over a […]

There has been a little flurry of outrage in the last two weeks over a 2014 Texas law that prohibits members of motorcycle clubs from legally carrying firearms. The excitement is the result of an article by David “Double D” Devereaux on his website Motorcycle Profiling Project and the almost simultaneous detention and arrest of […]

Lawyers for retired Pagan Motorcycle Club member Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello rested Friday after calling one witness. Lead attorney Mary Linehan examined an investigator named Jessica Bonner. Bonner testified that hundreds of anonymous phone calls by James Kauffman could have been made to a former Pagan named Glenn Seeler. Many Bodies Atlantic County prosecutor Seth Levy […]

United States District Judge David Ezra sentenced Jeffrey Fay Pike, former El Presidente of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus ten years in San Antonio this morning. Pike is the second, former, Bandido national officer to be sentenced by Ezra this week. Two days ago Ezra sentenced […]

The United States Department of Justice gloated after United States District Judge David Ezra ripped John Xavier Portillo’s beating heart from his chest yesterday. Ezra held Portillo’s heart up and showed it to the law enforcement bureaucrats who are responsible for the Waco Twin Peaks Mass Murder more than three years ago. Portillo’s sacrifice meant […]

It will be up to the jury to decide if Ferdinand “Freddy” “Miserable” Augello shrinks and softens every morning just before he walks into the courtroom. He is sitting right there in plain sight. The witnesses prosecutor Seth Levy calls to the stand keep testifying that every time the jurors look away Freddy turns into […]

John Xavier Portillo, the former vice-president of the National Chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club is scheduled for sentencing by federal district court judge David Ezra in San Antonio today. Portillo and former Bandidos president Jeffrey Fay Pike were found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women on May 17 of: Racketeering […]

There was never any plot to murder Dr. James Kauffman in jail. Prosecutors in the trial of former Pagan Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello told Kauffman and his lawyers that there was a plot to murder him shortly before Kauffman gave up and killed himself. Virtually every news outlet that has covered the case has reported that […]

Yesterday the Fort Worth Star-Telegram told North Texas to beware because a horde of Mongols is about to descend on their theme park. The actual headline was, “Heading to the Fort Worth Stockyards this weekend? Might want to read this first.” The Stockyards are dirty, old history sanded and polished into a tourist destination like […]

The only evidence offered against retired Pagan Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello so far in Augello’s trial has been the testimony of former Pagan Andrew “Chef” Glick and Glick’s interpretation of three conversations with Augello that Glick recorded over a two-month period late last year. Glick is a desperate man. He was a desperate man when he […]

Lame duck District Attorney Abel Reyna continues his personal war against members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club who attended the Confederation of Club’s and Independents meeting at the Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17, 2015. Approximately 70 members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club and two Cossacks support clubs attended the meeting with the intention of […]

The lawyers made their opening speeches and testimony began today in the trial of Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello, a retired Pagan Motorcycle Club member from the South Jersey Shore. Augello is accused of arranging the murder of a doctor’s wife named April Kauffman in May 2012. The prosecution claims the woman’s husband, James Kauffman paid Augello […]