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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 [...]
Continue reading...Two Cavazos Sentenced
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Ruben “Doc’ Cavazos, the former President of the Mongols Motorcycle Club, and his son Ruben “Lil Rubes” Cavazos, Jr. were sentenced en camera by Federal District Judge Otis D Wright, II at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 8. En camera proceedings are secret court sessions held in a metaphorical “closet.” The secret sentencing illustrates the [...]
Continue reading...Bad Prosecutor No Donut
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The government case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club is sinking faster than the Titanic. Prosecutors know it and the defense attorneys who told their clients to make plea deals for crimes they did not commit know it. The prosecutors are already trying to spin this travesty. Any minute now the United States Attorney will issue [...]
Continue reading...Pagans Plea Rejected
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Now plea deals are starting to bounce in the federal racketeering case in Charleston West Virginia against members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. A hard core of the defense lawyers in this case have refused to just roll over for the prosecution like good legal professionals, and wave their little white flags in [...]
Continue reading...Are The Mongols Pleas Legal
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Seventeen months into the war of legal attrition called United States versus Ruben “Doc” Cavazos and others; after three Judges, two United States Attorneys, and at least 62 plea agreements; thirteen months after the first of those plea deals, with Doc Cavazos, was signed on January 22, 2009; a week after Doc’s current attorney asked [...]
Continue reading...More Mongols Sentenced
Monday, March 1, 2010
Judge Otis D Wright sentenced six more defendants in the Mongols case, United States versus Cavazos et al., last week. All the defendants pled guilty to Count One of the indictment which initiated the case. Count One accused the defendants of: “being persons employed by and associated with the Mongols criminal enterprise, which enterprise engaged [...]
Continue reading...Twelfth Pagan Plea Deal
Monday, January 11, 2010
There have been twelve plea bargaining agreements in the Pagans case now unfolding in Charleston, West Virginia. Last October 23rd, Timothy A. Flood, the former President of the Northeast Philadelphia chapter of the club pled guilty to helping the Pagans run an illegal lottery. The plea deal was unsealed last Thursday, January 7th. Flood pled [...]
Continue reading...Feds Want Pagans Patch
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Two more plea deals in the federal case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club were filed yesterday. One of the plea deals was signed by former Pagans National Vice President Floyd B. “Jesse” Moore. And, that was the least of the news about this case dumped into the public record on the Friday afternoon before Christmas. [...]
Continue reading...Ninth Pagan Plea Deal
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Fifteen days ago, on December 2, James R. “Bones” Claypool became the ninth defendant in the current federal case against the Pagans Motorcycle Club to agree to cooperate with prosecutors. The plea agreement had been sealed until yesterday. As with every other cooperating defendant in the case, Claypool agreed to “be forthright and truthful with [...]
Continue reading...Munz Pleads To Count One
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
One of the most senior and respectfully regarded members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club signed a plea deal yesterday. Bill Michael Munz pled guilty to Count One of the Indictment in United States v. Ruben Cavazos, et al. Count One alleges that: “Beginning on a date unknown, and continuing to on or about October 9, [...]
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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