Mongol Nation Pre-Trial
There is a hearing today before the Mongol Nation trial is scheduled to start tomorrow. Briefly stated, the government alleges that the Mongols Nation, an unincorporated association is guilty of...
View ArticleMongols Nation Trial Begins
A shiny new jury heard opening arguments and testimony in the often delayed United States versus Mongol Nation trial today in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Santa...
View ArticleMongols Prosecution Continues
The two federal prosecutors in the Mongol Nation RICO trial – Christopher Brunwin and Steven R. Welk – looked like failures again today. The two keep promising more than they can deliver. Last week,...
View ArticleMongols Prosecution Just Yesterday
Two of the undercover ATF agents who “infiltrated” the Mongols Motorcycle Club from about June 2005 until October 2008 testified yesterday at the big, not very newsworthy racketeering trial in Orange...
View ArticleVeteranos
Two, acclaimed veterans of the perilous crusade against the motorcycle club menace testified yesterday in federal court in Santa Ana, California in the Mongol Nation RICO trial. The United States...
View ArticleThe Vago Won
Rudy Zuñiga, a 47-year-old candidate for the Upland, California City Council, described by Upland Police Chief Darren Goodman as a “documented” member of the Vagos Motorcycle Club won his election last...
View ArticleWhere Is Rebel
Rebel, or Donald Charles Davis if you prefer, is taking some time off to prepare to testify in the U.S. versus Mongol Nation racketeering case in California. The prosecution may rest as early as this...
View ArticleMongols Trial Nears Climax
Stories usually get told beginning with the middle. The middle of this one was early Friday afternoon, about two-thirds of the way through my cross-examination by Steven Welk. Welk is the Chief of the...
View ArticleDevils Diciples Anticlimax
Former Devils Diciples Motorcycle Club president Jeff Garvin “Fat Dog” Smith, 64, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a federal prison on November 13 by Judge Robert H. Cleland in...
View ArticlePittsburgh Whitewash Begins
Last week the Allegheny County district attorney’s office finally dropped charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and riot against Pagans Motorcycle Club members Frank...
View ArticlePagan Punches Back
Frank DeLuca, the most seriously beaten of four Pagan Motorcycle Club members after an ugly incident at Kopy’s bar on October 12, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh...
View ArticleNYT On Mongol Nation
The New York Times published a 1,500 word news feature this morning on the Mongol Nation racketeering case now unfolding in a federal court in Santa Ana, California. The article by Serge F. Kovaleski...
View ArticleNo Mongols Allowed
Two American tourists were denied entry into Australia last Wednesday because they were alleged to be members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. The two were stopped and turned around at Melbourne...
View ArticleCharity Gone Wrong
Last Friday, between 10:00 a.m. and 2 p.m., three Hells Angels in Porter County Indiana, east of Chicago, tried to show their community and Christmas spirit by manning a Salvation Army donation kettle...
View ArticleCha-Ching
Another federal, civil-rights lawsuit has been filed by one of the four Pagans Motorcycle Club members attacked by drunk and belligerent Pittsburgh cops in a bar on October 12, Erik Heitzenrater is...
View ArticleGypsy Joker Plea Deal
Tiler Evan Pribbernow, a member of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club from Portland, Oregon, pled guilty November 7 to one count of racketeering conspiracy. As part of the agreement with federal...
View ArticleBouncing Checks At Christmas
It is debatable whether I do an adequate job as a writer or a journalist. The only thing I can say about that is that I am a much better writer and journalist than I am a bookkeeper. I have never been...
View ArticleJury Has Mongols Case
A federal trial jury in Santa Ana, California began deliberating the racketeering case United States versus Mongol Nation, An Unincorporated Association today about 1:15 p.m. Pacific Time. The case...
View ArticleJudge Throws Augello Away
The beast ate Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello this morning. Atlantic County, New Jersey judge Bernard E. DeLury Jr. sentenced the 62-year-old retired Pagan to life in prison plus 30 years, He will not be...
View ArticleAttempted Murder Charges
An alleged Hells Angels Motorcycle Club member named Dominick J. Eadicicco and an alleged prospect with the club named Anthony V. Milan have been indicted for attempted murder by an Augusta County,...
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