The Aging Rebel

Suing The Bastards

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 [...]

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Wrapping Up The Pagans Pleas

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 [...]

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Pagans Take Plea Deals

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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Pagans Informants Still Singing

The foul stink of the Pagans racketeering case, US v. Barbeito et al., lingers in West Virginia. The case began in October 2009. The principal accusation against the defendants was that the Pagans Motorcycle Club held a lottery. Charges against many of the 55 defendants were dismissed. The lead defendant, former club President David Keith [...]

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Gorilla Sentenced

Steven “Gorilla” Mondevergine, a South Philly guy, a former Philadelphia cop and probably the best known member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club was sentenced to three to ten years in prison by Common Pleas Judge Earl W. Trent on August 8. Mondevergine pled guilty to aggravated assault and firearms offenses as part of a negotiated [...]

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Tony Glen Dye

Tony Glen “Perk” Dye died last Saturday, February 19th, at the Lewis Gale Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. Perk Dye was a 1966 graduate of J.J. Kelley High School in Wise, Virginia. He was a high school football and baseball star. He worked as a heavy equipment operator and mechanic and he was a founding [...]

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Pagans Busted Again

Seventeen members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club were arrested in a series of raids yesterday in New York and New Jersey. The raids culminate “a 21-month undercover investigation led by ATF Special Agents who gained access to the internal operations of the” motorcycle club and grand jury indictments in two separate, federal jurisdictions. A 31 [...]

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Dulaney Out Of Pagans Case

William L. Dulaney, a college professor who studies motorcycle outlaws, has withdrawn as an expert witness in the Pagans Motorcycle Club RICO case in Charleston, West Virginia. Dulaney (above) is a former member of the American Outlaws Association who has become a common source for journalists seeking insight into the outlaw world. He has appeared [...]

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Pagans Case Withering

The federal case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club in Charleston, West Virginia continues to dry up and blow away. The earliest any trial will begin now is June 4th. This Titanic fiasco may not get far. Last week, 13 of the remaining defendants pled guilty to a misdemeanor, state gambling offense and paid a five [...]

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The RICO Defense Laboratory

The Pagans Motorcycle Club case in Charleston, West Virginia has become a laboratory of ways to defend motorcycle clubs against racketeering prosecutions. A small, hard core of defense lawyers in the case have been fighting the fundamental assumption that underlies these cases: Which is, briefly stated, that police bureaucracies want motorcycle clubs portrayed as criminal [...]

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