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FBI Memo Leaked
A whistle-blower blog you should know, Public Intelligence, released a confidential FBI memo yesterday about the Vagos copyrighting their Loki patch. You can access that report here. David Kravets, a senior staff writer for the much better known publication Wired picked up the story this morning and limped with it. You can read his take [...]
Continue reading...Oregon Biker Season Opens
17. April 2012
An anonymous, Oregon couple drew first blood near Eugene Sunday as the state’s biker killing season got underway. Police described the couple as a man and woman in their 20s. The biker, who police also refused to name, lived. A witness named Dena Turner saw the botched kill. “This car just … flew by me,” [...]
Continue reading...Suing The Bastards
16. April 2012
A federal lawsuit in New Jersey, titled James Coles et al. v. Nicholas Carlini et al., is starting to get interesting. Coles is a member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. His fellow complainants are Pagans MC patch holder Louis C. DeGailler and Joseph Ballinger. Ballinger is a member of the Tribe Motorcycle Club. Carlini is [...]
Continue reading...Operation Quiet Acquittal
13. April 2012
Four of seven men who were arrested in December 2009 in a roundup that Arizona law enforcement officials branded “Operation Quiet Riot” were acquitted yesterday in Kingman, Arizona. The four men were Gerald Roy Smith, Dale Leroy Hormuth, Stephen Michael Helland, and Rudolfo John “Rudy” Martinez. All four were accused of rioting and assisting a [...]
Continue reading...The Devil’s Ride
13. April 2012
Finally! A brand new, ridiculous thing to mock. A production company named Bischoff Hervey Entertainment Television has created a “reality” television show called The Devil’s Ride and they have sold it to the giant funhouse mirror that calls itself Discovery Channel. The “logline,” which is what entertainment entrepreneurs call a story after it has been [...]
Continue reading...Clifford Clark “Skip” Workman
2. April 2012
Clifford Clark “Skip” Workman died Saturday in New Harbor, Maine. He was one of the last of the original Oakland Hells Angels and his life was interesting and fully realized. Skip Workman joined the club while he was still in the Navy. After a nasty motorcycle accident in 1957, Sonny Barger rebuilt his bike for [...]
Continue reading...Kevin Augustiniak Sentenced
30. March 2012
Kevin Augustiniak, a member of the Mesa, Arizona charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge named Peter Reinstein yesterday for the murder of a woman named Cynthia Yvonne Garcia in Phoenix in October 2001. For the last decade Garcia’s murder has [...]
Continue reading...Harley Execs Get Paid
28. March 2012
Harley-Davidson, the Milwaukee based lifestyle products company, announced yesterday how much its top five executives made last year. The five executives are Keith Wandell, chief executive officer of the motor company; John Olin, the chief financial officer; Matthew Levatich, the chief operating officer; Lawrence Hund who runs Harley’s loan company; and Paul Jones who is [...]
Continue reading...Wrapping Up The Pagans Pleas
26. March 2012
The remaining two defendants in the Pagans racketeering case titled U.S. v. Barbeito et al. took plea deals last week in Charleston, West Virginia. The men were Richard Timothy “Lucky” Weaver and Elmer Luke “Tramp” Moore. Weaver pled guilty to one count of “conspiracy” charged in a superseding indictment in this case filed in February [...]
Continue reading...Pagans Take Plea Deals
22. March 2012
The trial of the two remaining defendants in the Pagans case in Charleston, West Virginia ended suddenly today when the men agreed to plea and sentencing agreements offered by the government. The pleas were offered and accepted during a long break after a juror was dismissed. The plea negotiations began around noon and took about [...]
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18. April 2012
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