Dan “Chopper Dan” Schild, the former Bandidos Motorcycle Club National Chapter member who started the Kinfolk Motorcycle Club, will testify for the prosecution in the trial of former Bandidos president Jeffrey Pike and former vice-president John Portillo. The trial starts tomorrow. The Aging Rebel believes Schild became a government asset in January 2016, shortly after […]
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Chopper Dan To Testify
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Bandidos Trial Begins
The trial of former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Jeffrey Fay Pike and former club vice-president John Xavier Portillo began this morning in the San Antonio Division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. The prosecutors are Assistant United States Attorneys Eric Fuchs and John Gibson. Dick DeGuerin and Catherine Baen […]
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Satire Proof Waco Day 1019
Abelino Reyna, the mentally and emotionally challenged, McLennan County, Texas District Attorney who falsely arrested and imprisoned 192 men and women because they attended, or tried to attend, a biker rally at the now defunct Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, then stalled adjudication of any of those cases until all the accusations became basically unprovable; […]
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Bandidos Trial Continues
The trial of two Bandidos Motorcycle Club officers, Jeffrey Pike and John Portillo, continues today in the journalistic equivalent of a rendition dungeon in Uzbekistan. Apparently, in federal court in San Antonio “Minute Entries for proceedings held before Judge Henry J. Bemporad…are not available electronically.” So there is no written, public record of what is […]
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Reyna In His Hole
There is some slight possibility that defense attorneys in the Twin Peaks criminal cases will not have Abel Reyna to kick around much longer. Reyna is the Waco politician who cruelly decided to ruin a couple of hundred lives after the Twin Peaks Mass Murder almost three years ago by arresting citizens for being in […]
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Flatoff On Trial
The police murder of Michael Funk as he fled Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah, Wisconsin on December 5, 2015 is finally finding its resolution. An obviously troubled man named Brian T. Flatoff is on trial for murder and 13 other felonies. Flatoff is acting as his own lawyer. The tale of Funk’s death is long, […]
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Only 245 Days To Go
Abelino Reyna, the McLennan County, Texas District Attorney lost a primary election yesterday to a lawyer named Barry Johnson by a margin of 10,347 votes to 6,930. There are, according to the Texas Secretary of State, 136,088 registered voters in McLennan County by the way. So a little less than 13 percent of them cared […]
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Desperate Bandidos Prosecutions Continue
The mostly secret sham trial of former Bandidos president Jeff Pike and former club vice-president John Portillo fell down a rabbit hole this week. The prosecution’s star witness so far has been a liar and ex-Bandido named Johnny “Downtown Johnny” Romo (above center) who along with his brother Robert Romo (above right) formally confessed last […]
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Tennessee Mongols Indicted Again
Federal prosecutors in the Middle District of Tennessee unsealed a second superseding indictment Friday against members of the Clarksville, Tennessee chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. The case is titled USA v. Frazier et al. The initial, sealed indictment in the case was returned by a grand jury in July 2017 and four defendants named […]
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Ledbetter Case Dismissed
The Twin Peaks Mass Murder coverup continues to crumble like Mexican concrete. This morning, McLennan County Assistant District Attorney Michael Jarrett asked Judge Matt Johnson to get him out of a pending confrontation with Houston defense attorney Paul Looney (above right). Looney’s client, Cody Ledbetter (above left with his mother) was scheduled to begin trial […]
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The Silence About Waco
There was a second dismissal of an entirely bogus case against a Twin Peaks defendant yesterday. After Assistant District Attorney Michael Jarrett (posturing above) dismissed the charge of participating in an organized criminal conspiracy against former Cossack Motorcycle Club member Cody Ledbetter he waited a few hours and then dismissed an identical case against former […]
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Pagans Case Jumps Shark
The phrase “jumping the shark,” from an episode of the situation comedy Happy Days in which the biker character. “The Fonz,” jumps over a shark on water skis, generally describes an improbable, dramatic gimmick that is cynically intended to grab public attention. The New Jersey prosecution of various people associated with the Cape May chapter […]
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Nothing To See Here
The trial of former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Jeff Pike and vice-president John Portillo has been in recess since last Friday and will probably not resume until March 20. Other than one court order authorizing a $10 per day payment to jurors, there have been no publically available documents filed in the case since March […]
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Kingsmen Trial Month Two
The pulp fiction trial of three members of the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club enters its second month this week. David Pirk, who may or may not have been the club’s president, Timothy Enix, who may have been a “regional president,” and convicted murderer Andre Jenkins, who some Kingsmen have claimed was never more than a prospect, […]
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The Being George Show Update
Former Hells Angel George Christie’s ambition to get paid for the way he remembers things may be running out of steam. Christie apparently still hopes to go on tour with a one-man-show. In a press release earlier this month he said: “This show has taken me deeper into realizing why I became who I am…, […]
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Waco Day 1326
It doesn’t seem likely that there will be another trial in the Waco Twin Peaks Mass Murder case until at least January 2, 2019. That will be 1,326 days after lame duck District Attorney Abel Reyna “helped” police with their investigation, as Waco Police Public Information Officer Patrick Swanton put it at the time, and […]
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Ride Like A Girl
If you don’t know, maybe you should. Her name is Valerie Thompson. She crashed her motorcycle Monday at the World Speed Trials at Lake Gairdner in South Australia. She was going 343 miles per hour at the time. The tail of her vehicle, called BUB Seven Streamliner, became airborne at the four-mile mark of the […]
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Pike And Portillo And Stories And Truth
For the last three weeks the racketeering trial of former Bandidos Motorcycle Club national officers Jeffrey Pike and John Portillo has been dominated by the dramatic testimony of three alleged eyewitnesses to four old murders. The witnesses were two ex-Bandidos, Johnny Romo and his brother Robert Romo and a former meth addict and prostitute named […]
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Reality Check
For the second time in about 16 months I have to ask readers whether The Aging Rebel matters or whether it is time for it to disappear. Over the last 115 months The Aging Rebel has published about 2,000 posts and about 85,000 comments from a broad cross section of readers including drifters, mechanics, policemen, […]
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Merla, Gomez Sing And So On
If you know anything about the Global War On Motorcycle Clubs, at least enough to understand how such a perversion of our national defense against Jihadi terrorism came to be, you have always suspected the Bandidos case now on trial in San Antonio might, maybe be inseparable from the Twin Peaks Mass Murder. At the […]
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