Harry Joseph “Taco” Bowman, a former regional president, national vice-president and and ultimately the international president of the American Outlaws Association from 1984 until 1997, died after a long illness at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Durham, North Carolina. His death was announced Sunday, March 3. Bowman’s presidency, which began 35 years ago, coincided […]
March 1, 2019
In a grim episode of show justice, former Kingsmen Motorcycle Club president David Pirk and convicted murderer Andre Jenkins were both sentenced to three consecutive life terms plus ten years yesterday by federal district judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Neither of them were going anywhere anyway. The sentencing seemed intended to punctuate the fact that both […]
February 28, 2019
This morning at 9 a.m. Pacific district judge David O. Carter denied a preliminary order of forfeiture that was transparently intended to turn the Mongols Motorcycle Club’s various indicators of membership, or club only patches and tattoos, into contraband. The government has been pursuing this cause through two major criminal cases and a civil case […]
February 26, 2019
There is an important hearing this Thursday in the Mongol Nation case. The court – the court is fellow named The Honorable David O. Carter – will hear arguments on three issues. The first issue is whether this entire case is built on rock or sand. The government has argued that the turn of phrase […]
February 25, 2019
Just in time for this Thursday’s motion hearing in The Mongol Nation patch forfeiture proceedings, the California Highway Patrol alleged Saturday that a member of a pack of four to six Mongols shot t two sport bike riders near the intersection of two major Los Angeles freeways wounding one of them. A man riding a […]
February 22, 2019
EV Grieve, a “blog where you’ll find local news on the real estate, restaurants and residents of the East Village NYC,” reported this morning that the New York charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has reached an agreement to sell its Manhattan clubhouse to a Brooklyn-based real estate company named Whitestone Realty Group, Incorporated. […]
February 21, 2019
Sometime around the year 1026 or 1027, Canute, the powerful Viking king who simultaneously ruled England, Denmark and Norway is said, according to a well-known story, to have tested the limits of his power when he ordered the sea to recede. The sea ignored him. A couple of years ago Dutch police tried something like […]
February 20, 2019
Dominick J. Eadicicco, a Hells Angel from Staten Island pled guilty yesterday in Augusta County, Virginia to malicious wounding by a mob and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to serve eight years in prison. He had been scheduled to begin trial on March 18. According to […]
February 15, 2019
Yesterday, a federal district judge in Portland, Oregon named Robert E. Jones placed Kenneth Earl Hause, the longtime, national president of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club, on house arrest. Hause must wear an electronic tracking tether, his phone calls will be monitored and he must resign from the presidency of his club. Hause is one […]
February 11, 2019
One of the jurors who found the turn of phrase “Mongol Nation” guilty of racketeering last December, admitted today that the jury made a mistake. In a batch of four motions filed late Thursday afternoon by Mongols attorney Joseph A. Yanny, Juror Number Two, a citizen named Eric Garcia told the court: “I am submitting […]
February 9, 2019
Yesterday David Loy, who is the Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties in Southern California, filed a friends of the court, or amici curiae, brief protesting the proposed criminal forfeiture of the insignia worn by members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. That extraordinary punishment, which Mongols attorney […]
February 8, 2019
There was another miscarriage of justice today in Atlantic County, New Jersey in the April Kauffman case. A retired Pagan Motorcycle Club member named Ferdinand “Freddy” “Miserable” Augello, was convicted of her murder last fall and sentenced last December 5 to life in prison plus 30 years. After Judge Bernard E. DeLury Jr. pronounced Augello’s […]
February 7, 2019
After a ruling published yesterday by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, former ATF agent Jay “Bird” Dobyns’ seems to have finally lost his tedious, self-aggrandizing,12-year-long legal battle with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Dobyns infiltrated the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Arizona for the Bureau from late […]
March 4, 2019
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