Government prosecutors rested their case yesterday in the trial of former Bandidos national officers Jeffrey Pike and John Portillo. The prosecution rested about a month before it had previously announced it expected to do so. The trial has proceeded by fits. It began on February 28, 57 calendar days ago. In the 41 working days […]
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Bandidos Prosecution Rests
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Jersey Shore Narcos
In previous episodes of Jersey Shore Narcos, a New Jersey doctor named James Kauffman was arrested for hiring someone to murder his wife, April, five years earlier. He wanted her dead because he was afraid she would divorce him and then tell police that he was running a massive prescription drug ring with the Cape […]
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Waco Day 1079
Three years after his life was forever diminished by a lynch mob of rogue cops, corrupt politicians, fatuous prosecutors and gullible reporters, the booboisie who run Central Texas finally got around to telling former Scimitars Motorcycle Club member Matthew Alan Clendennen, “never mind.” Next thing, Waco Tribune-Herald Opinion Editor Bill Whitaker will run an editorial […]
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Terry Lee “Terry the Tramp” Orendorff
Terry the Tramp Orendorff, who was a member of the Vagos Motorcycle Club for 42 years, died last Tuesday, April 24, of complications after years of poor health. He was the Vagos international president for 26 years. He was born in July 1947 and raised in El Monte, California by an abusive and alcoholic father. […]
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The Aryan Circle Indictment
The announcement Monday of the indictment of “57 white supremacists” including 17 alleged members of the Aryan Circle for “crimes related to a years-long methamphetamine operation in Texas” was most remarkable for what it did not mention – which was the numerous connections between the Aryan Circle and the Cossacks Motorcycle Club before the Twin […]
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Sixteen More Never Minds
The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office moved to dismiss criminal charges stemming from the Twin Peaks Mass Murder against 15 members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club yesterday and announced it would decline to indict another suspect. District Attorney Abelino Reyna and new to the case prosecutors Robert F. Moody, Hilary LaBorde and Gabrielle Massey are […]
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Barger’s Testimony
The highlight of the trial of Bandidos Jeff Pike and John Portillo so far has been the video streamed testimony of Hells Angels Motorcycle Club éminence grise Ralph Hubert “Sonny” Barger. For all practical purposes, Barger created the Hells Angels. For all practical purposes he created the ethics of motorcycle outlawry. He has been praised […]
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Waco Day 1088
This story was published on May 9, 2018 and corrected on May 10. The earlier version said that only the charges against defendant Matt Clendennen had been dismissed with prejudice, meaning they could not be refiled. Charges against defendant George Bergman were also dismissed with prejudice. The Aging Rebel regrets the error. The McLennan County […]
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Why
Three years into the perversion of justice that began at the Waco, Texas Twin Peaks “breastaurant,” the fundamental, obvious question, the – for want of a more appropriate turn of phrase – satorical question remains unchanged. Why? Why did the Twin Peaks Mass Murder happen? Why didn’t the police stop it? Why did police take […]
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Ruley And Burdette
John Wilson “Chopper John” Ruley Jr., president of the Lakelands (South Carolina) chapter of the Warlocks Motorcycle Club and his club brother Thomas “Tommy” Edward Burdette died together last Saturday, May 5, after colliding with a 1999 Jeep driven by a man named Ronald Derossett. Derossett was charged with two counts of felony Driving Under […]
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Mafia On Wheels
By the time you read this a jury in San Antonio may have already decided the fate of former Bandidos Motorcycle Club president Jeffrey Pike and former vice-president John Portillo. A federal jury got the case today. In a sane world both men would be acquitted. In case you had not noticed, this is a […]
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Eight More Waco Dismissals
County prosecutors in Waco, Texas have dismissed charges against eight more defendants so far this week. At the request of McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna, the two criminal court judges in Waco, Ralph Strother and Matt Johnson, dismissed indictments for participating a criminal of conspiracy to murder and assault against Thomas Paul Landers, Noe […]
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Simple Intelligence Gathering
Members of the Jus Brothers Motorcycle Club had a brief and strained encounter with members of the Sonora, California Police Department outside the Tuolumne County Bike Night May 8. Apparently the club members rattled the police by video recording the incident on a cell phone. In the video, below, club members accuse the police of […]
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1096 Days Later
May 18, 2015 A shoving match in a bathroom at a Confederation of Clubs meeting in Waco, Texas exploded into a war yesterday. Nine people were killed, 27 people were injured, 17 were hospitalized, two are listed in critical condition, and 160 men were arrested following a brawl at a chain restaurant in a shopping […]
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Pike And Portillo Guilty
The jury didn’t believe Sonny Barger. The jury believed television and a parade of snitches instead. About 10:45 this morning San Antonio time, after deliberating on three months worth of evidence for two days, on the third anniversary of the Twin Peaks Mass Murder, a jury of eight men and four women found former Bandidos […]
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Brent Coon Press Release
Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Twin Peaks Waco biker shootings and mass arrests. It is indeed a dubious anniversary, as it stands for law enforcement abuses measurable at just about every level imaginable. Self-dealing. Grandstanding. Criminal conduct. Perjury. Bribery. Corruption. Intimidation. Abuse of power. Violations of Constitutional Rights. Railroading of Innocents. And […]
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Clint Broden Press Release
In anticipation of the this anniversary of the Twin Peaks tragedy, the Dallas law firm of Broden & Mickelsen releases the following statement. Broden & Mickelsen has played an active role in these cases for the past three years. Thursday, May 17, 2015, marks the third anniversary of the Twin Peaks tragedy and the frontal […]
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Pulp Fiction Trial Ends
The trial of former Kingsmen Motorcycle Club president David Pirk, regional president Timothy Enix, and previously convicted murderer Andre Jenkins ended about one this afternoon after a trial that lasted 12 weeks and three days and included testimony from 60 witnesses. All three men were convicted in federal court of criminal conspiracy; possession of firearms […]
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Bandidos, Bandidos Everywhere
A controversy over “honoring” the Bandidos Motorcycle Club erupted last week in the small Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement. For years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proclaimed May, which in northern states is the first full month of the motorcycle riding season, to be National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. It is a […]
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New Mongols Indictment
The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment today in the Mongol Nation motorcycle club case. The case is a brazen attempt to destroy the motorcycle club by any means necessary. The 36-page indictment was returned on May 1 and officially filed last Thursday but not entered into the court’s official public record until this […]
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