Vegas Tire Fire Continues
This is day four of the Vagos racketeering trial in Las Vegas. Maybe you heard. Maybe you didn’t. If you live within 500 miles of Vegas maybe you have smelled it. The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s...
View ArticlePeter Fonda
Peter Fonda, the Hollywood brat who grew up to co-write, produce and co-star in the widely revered biker movie Easy Rider 50years ago, died yesterday of lung cancer. Easy Rider is simultaneously one of...
View ArticleThe Star Witness
So far the star witness in the continuing trial of eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club has been a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy named Agostino Brancato. Brancato is a long-time member of...
View ArticleDesperate Men
The prosecutors in the ongoing trial of eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club in Las Vegas are trying to convict the defendants of multiple crimes with the help of an undercover cop named Agostino...
View ArticleSutter Too White For Mayans MC
For the last decade FX has been shoveling the impeccable authenticity of its motorcycle club shows down everybody’s throats. The network was still at it Tuesday. Kurt Sutter announced at the premiere...
View ArticleKingsmen Tragedy Finally Ends
The tragedy of the once venerable Kingsmen Motorcycle Club is finally over. Yesterday, Federal District Judge Elizabeth Wolford sentenced former Kingsmen regional president and national treasurer...
View ArticleWhen Gary Sold His Soul
If you listen carefully while you read the following brief excerpts from a transcript of an interview former Vagos Motorcycle Club member Gary “Jabbers” Rudnick gave to Detectives John Patton and Rob...
View ArticleFlogging Brancato
Agostino Brancato has been on the witness stand since August 13. Ponder that. There has been no news of the ongoing Vegas Vagos trial since August 15, at 9:25 a.m. when David Ferrara of the Las Vegas...
View ArticleChutzpah
Chutzpah is a Yiddish word that means brazen audacity. The most common, folk definition of the word is “Murdering your mother and your father and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court...
View ArticleVagos Prosecution Sinking
The prosecution against eight members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club ran into an iceberg yesterday. The defendants are Pastor Palafox, Albert Lopez, Albert Perez, James Gillespie, Ernesto Gonzalez,...
View ArticleOutlaw Charges Dropped
Lurid, widely publicized murder charges against four members of the American Outlaws Association in Florida were dropped late last week. The dismissals were announced yesterday. Public officials often...
View ArticleVagos Prosecution Crumbling
The Vagos racketeering case in Las Vegas continues to crumble under the weight of its own corruption. On September 24 United States Attorney for the District of Nevada Nicholas Trutanich advised...
View ArticlePortuguese Kidnap Hells Angels
By now, anybody who has bothered to look knows that the Global War on Terror that began late in 2001 quickly transformed into the Global War on Motorcycle Clubs – for obvious reasons. Islamic...
View ArticleKurt Sutter Canned
Kurt Sutter, the man who taught a million Walter Mittys what being a motorcycle outlaw is really like got fired by FX yesterday. He may or may not still have a deal with 20th Century Fox TV and Disney...
View ArticleYour Enemies, My Enemies, Yeah Again
I am at the end of my rope again. The next book, Expect No Mercy is at about 85,000 words. That is down from a high of about 400,000 words. I have been at it for almost two years. I like it. I think...
View ArticleDenver Angels Bust
There were simultaneous Swat raids on 19 locations yesterday morning at 4 a.m. in metropolitan Denver, Colorado Springs and Weld County. The raids were carried out by local police under the direction...
View ArticleGeorge Christie Update
George Christie, the disgraced Hells Angel, is alive and getting rich as a simulation of an outlaw biker in sunny Andalusia Spain. Christie, who is now officially an actor, will star in a television...
View ArticleTampa Drama Ends
Two members of the Tampa chapter of the 69’ers Motorcycle Club named Christopher Brian “Durty” Cosimano and Michael Dominick “Pumpkin” Mencher were both sentenced last Wednesday to spend the rest of...
View ArticleVagos Versus House In Vegas
The point of the Vagos trial in Vegas is not to determine whether the defendants, are Pastor Palafox, Albert Lopez, Albert Perez, James Gillespie, Ernesto Gonzalez, Bradley Campos, Cesar Morales, and...
View ArticleExpect No Mercy Excerpt
This is a story about deluded mythmakers; clueless judges; morally bankrupt prosecutors; bad lawyers; daydream believers; and crooked cops. This is a story about police propaganda and gutless...
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