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Hells Angels- Kingdom Come Season 1 Episode 3
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00:00I think power got to his head, he just lost it.
00:21We will do something that as far as I know, no Hells Angels anywhere in the world has
00:26done.
00:27The attack didn't target individuals, it's alleged he wanted anyone wearing a blue uniform
00:32dead.
00:33Mom Boucher becomes a terrorist.
00:36Suddenly they could kill anybody, anywhere.
00:39The Hells Angels embark on an enterprise, it involves the bikers, the Mexican cartel
00:45and the mafia, worth upwards of a billion dollars.
00:48When I call down thunder, they shake the ground.
00:54When they call my number, I shut them down.
01:01You can't stop me, no.
01:04You can't stop me now.
01:07You can bury me lay down under, I'll rise above.
01:15When I call down thunder, they shake the ground.
01:21You can't stop me now.
01:39By the 1990s, the Hells Angels ruled North America.
01:43Mom Boucher and Walter Stadnik had taken on their major rivals, the outlaws, and had wiped
01:48them out.
01:49At this point, Stadnik and Boucher were the undisputed leaders of the criminal underworld
01:54up north.
01:55Walter Stadnik, he was the restraining saying influence on Mom Boucher, who was considered
02:01a sociopath.
02:02They worked together to control Montreal.
02:06Stadnik was rational, Stadnik was likable, Stadnik was the cool guy you wanted to stand
02:13by your side.
02:14He wanted to stay away from any media mentions, he wanted to keep everything on the down low,
02:19and his job was dealing with gangs and other groups outside of Quebec.
02:24That's why he became national president.
02:27Boucher was the nutcase who didn't want to explode.
02:32Boucher led the Nomads, an elite chapter of the Hells Angels.
02:35He got the nickname Mom because he was apparently like an overbearing mother.
02:40Boucher was the face of the Hells Angels.
02:42Maurice Mom Boucher was the character.
02:45He loved television, he loved being on TV, he loved being around police.
02:50He was a showman.
02:53The media made Boucher famous.
02:59Maurice Mom Boucher was the most well-known, most influential, most feared Hells Angel
03:06in the world.
03:08He played the star.
03:10We treat someone who is one of the worst criminals we've ever had as a star, as a hero.
03:19I mean, he looked good, right?
03:20He had that big body, but that rather handsome smile, that famous photo of him smiling,
03:26giving the V for victory.
03:28And he knew the paparazzi.
03:31So he knew during a trial how to step out in front of the cameras and flash that smile.
03:38I met Maurice Boucher in the 90s.
03:41I used to have a bike shop.
03:44And he used to come to the shop and fix his bike and change the oil.
03:49I had a good contact with him.
03:53As Maurice Mom Boucher's intentions of dominating and controlling the drug distribution
04:00sectors of Montreal were increasing, the events of violence were also increasing.
04:04An altercation there last night ended in gunfire.
04:07Neutral members or associates shot, execution style.
04:13Montreal is a cocaine city.
04:15It's a party city.
04:18But cocaine will explode in the 90s the way no other drug has.
04:23There is an absolute fortune to be made.
04:27We have a port where the drugs can come in from Venezuela, Colombia and New York.
04:33So Montreal becomes a cocaine nexus.
04:37The bikers, if they would have put their efforts into any other business,
04:42I'd say they could have given Jeff Bezos a run for his money.
04:46They were controlling probably 90% of all the drug activities.
04:51Maurice Mom Boucher and Walter Statnik are sitting on top of this treasure trove of cocaine and millions of dollars.
05:01But their rivals are the dreaded rock machine.
05:12The rock machine was born from a mix of bikers
05:19and people who had interests in the underworld.
05:23Salvatore Cassetta was one of the names on the incorporation.
05:29Salvatore Cassetta was a biker. He started with a group called the SS.
05:33And they were called the SS because they were white supremacists.
05:36And one of their members was Mom Boucher.
05:39Salvatore Cassetta had been a longtime friend of Maurice Mom Boucher,
05:45but they went their separate ways.
05:47Salvatore, in opposition to the Hells Angels, he formed his own biker gang, the Rock Machine.
05:54He says, this is not the way to go, all this flashiness.
05:58He sets up the Rock Machine deliberately low-key.
06:01They don't have patches. They have a little ring that identifies themselves.
06:06But they're very powerful.
06:08And then the Rock Machine decided to increase their supply on their own.
06:14And that was seen as a bit of a power move on Boucher's part to be like,
06:19well, if you're not going to do with us, then you're not going to do with anyone.
06:25These are criminals fighting over the drugs that are polluting our society.
06:30It was a dangerous war.
06:32There were bodies all over the streets.
06:36The war actually started with a letter.
06:39Delivered by one of the biggest, most frightening Hells Angels to the Rock Machine's headquarters.
06:46And the letter legally asked them to stop calling themselves a motorcycle club,
06:51because not all of them rode motorcycle.
06:54The Rock Machine responded pretty much the way you would expect them to, with murder.
06:59There was a Harley-Davidson dealership and repair shop that was owned by a Hells Angels associate.
07:07Two guys walked in and then pulled guns and killed him and wounded another employee.
07:12And that was the start of the war.
07:13Because those guys were from the Rock Machine.
07:15And everybody knew it.
07:21The Quebec Biker War in the 1990s was terrifying.
07:25You had 160 people killed.
07:29You had all sorts of people wounded.
07:32You had car bombs.
07:35You had shootings.
07:38Knifings.
07:40You had basically every kind of violence under the sun throughout the city.
07:48The streets were like filled with ambulances, bombs going off.
07:53You know, in the worst days of Al Capone and the Chicago mobsters, I think there was something like 30 deaths.
08:00Not 162.
08:05There was high-powered weapons, AK-47s, remote bombs.
08:09It was just crazy.
08:12Nightclubs were being burnt, stroke joints, you name it.
08:16It was really out of control.
08:18It's either got to be the Hells Angels or the Rock Machine.
08:22Only one would survive.
08:24And Monbouchet was determined to make sure the Rock Machine would not survive.
08:30And a big part of the Hells Angels' power came from an alliance with the Italian Mafia and Vito Rizzuto.
08:43In terms of the Mafia families in New York, there are generally conceded to be five that are active.
08:50The Cadillac is the Genovese family, named after Vito Genovese.
08:55And you have the Gambino, named after Carlo Gambino.
09:00The Colombos, named after Joe Colombo, who famously got shot down in Central Park by an assassin's bullet.
09:08You have Bonanno's family, named Bill Bonanno.
09:12The fifth family is the Lucchese family.
09:17In terms of a sixth family, some say probably Vito Rizzuto and his sons.
09:24The notorious Rizzuto family.
09:27The Rizzuto organization's reach extends as far as Italy.
09:31The Hells Angels brass revered Vito Rizzuto.
09:35Vito Rizzuto, head of the Montreal Mafia.
09:38People called him the John Gotti of Canada.
09:40He was called the Teflon Don.
09:42And he was a master statesman.
09:45Vito Rizzuto is more powerful north of the border than most Mafia bosses, right?
09:51He comes from Italy and he runs Montreal in a very powerful, effective way.
10:00Vito was connected in New York.
10:02He liked the idea to consider himself a businessman.
10:08The Rizzuto crime family in the 90s had the opportunity to import narcotics.
10:14They had no desire to distribute.
10:19As you get closer to distribution, law enforcement is more attentive.
10:25And so the Rizzuto crime family realized that the Hells Angels had chapters all over the country.
10:32And so they were the best people to distribute the cocaine.
10:39The Rizzutos and the bikers needed each other.
10:41There was money to be made.
10:43It was good that they could make more money by using each other.
10:53Traditional organized crime is basically stay low, try to mix in and blend in.
10:59You know, the philosophy is if you advertise you're a criminal, something's wrong.
11:04If you walk around with a vest on your back saying you're a Hells Angels, you're starting back ten steps behind.
11:11In the 90s, the mafia didn't have a lot of respect for the bikers.
11:15They really thought that they were lower level.
11:17We're talking to Pee Wees with the professional hockey league.
11:22Can Pouchet was charismatic and full of himself.
11:25He thought he was dealing equally with the Rizzutos and other crime figures.
11:30He wasn't really, but they would play nice with him because he was a great way to make money.
11:36I think Stadnick was more aware of it and that it was really sort of marriage of convenience rather than a mutual pairing.
11:46I think Vito's used the fact that there was a war going on amongst the biker.
11:52He used it to his advantage.
11:54He stayed back and tried to keep a relationship with the Hells Angels and the rock machine.
12:01Basically like they do with politicians, donate to every party equally.
12:08The money that they were making through the Port of Montreal, both for the Hells Angels and the Rizzuto crime family, was just phenomenal.
12:19There was a project named Ocean, which was the discovery of an apartment
12:26where we would see people arrive with large duffel bags, which appeared to be heavy.
12:31Ordinary people, like elderly women and guys who look like hockey players,
12:36carrying in bags and bags of money from the cocaine profits.
12:40They had five counting machines going 24-7.
12:45We entered into the apartment, found that there was a computer inside that contained the accounting for the day.
12:53We were seeing certain days that there was over $2 million that was entering in one day.
12:59At a given moment, the Nomads Bank had like $36 million.
13:04Walter Stadnik, he was dealing over one period in more than $100 million in coke and hash.
13:12So this is the kind of fortune that these guys were making.
13:17The bikers in Montreal, they were out of control, out of control.
13:24Inevitably, with more than 160 deaths from bombs and bullets flying, innocents are going to die.
13:33Stadnik and Boucher are riding high.
13:36But soon, Mon Boucher's predilection for violence and chaos will lead him to make a big mistake and unleash Bedlam.
13:47This bloody biker war has become a constant source of frustration for police.
13:53One side, the Hells Angels and their associates. On the other side, the upstart Rock Machine.
14:01The Rock Machine and the Hells Angels hated each other and each wanted control of the gangland world and the drug scene.
14:08And so there would be tit for tat killings.
14:11You kill me, I'll kill you.
14:14Police initially are not only at a loss, but also their attitude is, they're just picking up the garbage for us.
14:22So they don't do much.
14:24At the time, the people of Montreal really thought that it was a case of gangsters killing other gangsters, getting rid of drug dealers.
14:31They were kind of for it.
14:34They thought that it was a case of gangsters killing other gangsters, getting rid of drug dealers.
14:39They were kind of for it.
14:41The media and the citizens were interested in Hells Angels.
14:47So we liked them. They are not buys us for riches.
14:54They act like citizens.
14:56They have no problem. They don't cause trouble.
14:58Their always quiet. They come in and they do their thing.
15:01They don't bother you if you don't bother them.
15:03The real turning point in public opinion about the bikers and the biker war changed after
15:0911-year-old Daniel Desrochers.
15:13August 1995, a hot summer day.
15:18There's a little boy and he's playing on the street on PNF Boulevard in the East End.
15:23This is a crowded street.
15:25The bikers want to kill one of their enemies and they plant a bomb inside his Jeep.
15:31As this biker gets into the Jeep, the remote-control bomb goes off.
15:37A small piece of shrapnel the size of a baby finger gets lodged inside Daniel Desrochers'
16:07head.
16:14And he will die.
16:27Everybody knew that someone had to be there to press that button.
16:31That person would have had to have seen Desrochers and know that he was in danger.
16:37Suddenly, they could kill anybody, anywhere.
16:41The public is outraged.
16:43Mamboucher actually will issue a public statement and want to apologize.
16:48The mother refuses.
16:49Everyone realized, oh, this isn't Marlon Brando and the Wild Ones.
16:55This shit's real.
16:56You know, these guys are dirty bastards.
16:59Excuse my French, it was a bad scene.
17:06During the biker war, the Hells Angels make at least two mistakes.
17:11The first one is to kill an 11-year-old boy.
17:16And the second mistake was Michel Auger.
17:21Michel Auger is probably the most famous crime journalist in Montreal.
17:26He really did the research.
17:28He walked the streets.
17:29He knew the people.
17:31And he reported on the bikers.
17:35Michel liked to say, not all my readers are criminals,
17:39but all the criminals are my readers.
17:43They would read him voraciously.
17:46One morning, September 2000, he drives to the parking lot of his newspaper,
17:51gets out of his car, opens the trunk.
17:54And suddenly, he feels six bullets penetrating his back.
18:01By some miracle, Michel survives.
18:05After that, I realized that the criminals wanted to get rid of me
18:10because I was too efficient as a crime reporter.
18:15We knew damn well that the guy behind that hit was Maurice Mamboucher.
18:19So that gave us the willpower to go forward and do what we had to do
18:26to have that guy arrested.
18:27So, the government will set up the Wolverine Squad.
18:34They're so feared by other animals that nothing will attack them, not even bears.
18:39Wolverine is kind of this ferocious animal.
18:42That's when Canada stepped up with legislation targeting criminal organizations.
18:48And so, that was the moment the Richard DeGrande family realized
18:52that they had to stop the war between the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels
18:57because the violence, the media attention, the police investigation
19:02were hurting everyone.
19:04And so, that was the moment when Rizzuto said, enough is enough.
19:08Vito Rizzuto did his best to create some semblance of peace
19:12between the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels.
19:15That era of violence was over, but there's only so much you can do
19:20to keep these type of bikers in check.
19:29There's only three or four countries where cocaine is manufactured, right?
19:35Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, right?
19:39That's it.
19:40So therefore, you need a liaison with the cartel to obtain that quantity of cocaine.
19:47The Sinaloa cartel out of Mexico, led by El Chapo Guzman,
19:51who at that time was the biggest and most powerful narco kingpin on the planet,
19:56set up shop in Vancouver.
19:58And he realized that he could sell his wares, his cocaine,
20:02for three times the amount that he was getting for those same drugs
20:05in the United States.
20:07El Chapo and now his sons, the Chapitos, are interested in Canada.
20:12It's a place that's seen as a trusted trading partner with a lot of countries
20:17so they can export drugs to other parts of the world more easily
20:21than they could using ports in Mexico or even on the west coast
20:25of the United States.
20:27Port of Vancouver is notorious for being porous.
20:29It's notorious for being controlled by the Hells Angels.
20:32It's notorious for improper or insufficient background checks, if any.
20:36When you go to the airport, 100% of people who go to the airport
20:40100% of people going to Florida get checked on a plane.
20:433% of containers coming into the Port of Vancouver get checked.
20:48The Sinaloa cartel, they control their business up here through others
20:52such as the Hells Angels.
20:54Low-level drug traffickers, they're not purchasing from the cartel,
20:57they're purchasing from the Hells Angels.
20:59Some of the first people El Chapo met and worked with up north
21:04were the Hells Angels.
21:06And more specifically, David Giles.
21:10GUNSHOTS
21:12Who is David Giles? Wow.
21:15He liked to be a larger-than-life figure.
21:18I'm a rather large person, and I think I was probably one of the few people
21:22that he would look at and say, OK, well, this guy's bigger than I am.
21:26He was the person who you would be best to keep your wits about you.
21:31David Giles was a senior member of the Hells Angels,
21:35and so inevitably he was a close associate of Mr. Boucher.
21:40They had come up together, they knew each other,
21:43and would rely on each other for advice and guidance and friendship.
21:48He was pretty proud when they showed the picture in the news
21:52when Mom was in court and he beat his court case.
21:55David was out there hanging onto his shoulder and patting his back and everything.
22:00Mom Boucher dispatched David Giles to the West Coast.
22:05It was David Giles' responsibility to keep both the money and drugs
22:10flowing coast to coast, and at the same time,
22:13make sure things were running smoothly between the cartel and the Hells Angels.
22:18And at this point, Walter Stadnik and Mom Boucher feel completely untouchable.
22:25Mom Boucher, I think power got to his head and he just lost it.
22:30He's already killed dozens of his enemies.
22:33He's killed innocents.
22:35But then he will do something that, as far as I know,
22:38no Hells Angels anywhere in the world has done.
22:41He was not satisfied just to be a gangster.
22:44He modeled his actions after Pablo Escobar.
22:48And like Escobar, what he wanted to do was get rid of anyone who could stand in the way.
22:53He had aspirations much far behind him, being a Hells Angel.
22:56He wanted to overthrow something, the government.
22:59Mom Boucher becomes a terrorist, a definition of terror.
23:04He wants to strike terror in the justice system.
23:08He will send out his men to kill, at random, prison guards.
23:13He thought that the part of law enforcement that nobody liked were the prison guards.
23:23Diane Levine had been a prison guard for 11 years.
23:27She worked in the front office and was finishing her shift.
23:31One late afternoon, got into her minivan to go home.
23:39They came up beside her van on a bridge and they shot her.
23:45A bullet goes through her left forearm.
23:48Another one goes through her left arm, pierces her lung, lodges in her back.
23:53She's dead.
24:12Safety? We don't feel safety anymore, this guard says.
24:15We live in fear all the time.
24:17The second time they killed a prison guard was when they went to a prison bus.
24:33A Hells Angel jumps on the hood of the prison bus,
24:37fires a gun through the windshield, and Rondeau is dead.
24:47He didn't target individuals.
24:49It's alleged he wanted anyone wearing a blue uniform dead.
24:54It was just a show of force, a message to the government,
24:58to the elected officials, that we're much more powerful than you think.
25:05I was in uniform. We had to be careful where we would park our cars.
25:09Should I be carrying my weapon when I go home?
25:13You'd go to the gym with your gun.
25:16Should I have my bulletproof vest when I go for a run?
25:19We all felt like we had a target on our backs.
25:28Bondoucher was arrested for and charged with the murders of the two prison guards.
25:33Boucher was put on trial for ordering the murder of two prison guards.
25:37The goal was to destabilize the justice system.
25:42In many ways, this is seen as the trial of the century.
25:45The most infamous public leader of the Hells Angels,
25:48really in North America, next to Sonny Barger,
25:51is on trial for orchestrating the brazen murder of two prison guards.
25:57Maurice Boucher's first trial in 1997 was a fiasco from the start.
26:02There was no security in the courtroom.
26:04I remember sitting beside one of Maurice Montboucher's best friends,
26:09who would sit there beside me,
26:12perched in his chair with these knuckle-duster rings
26:17on his fingers that everyone could see,
26:20and just concentrating on looking at the jury, intimidating them.
26:25He was the big catch for the police anti-biker squad,
26:28but Maurice Montboucher got away.
26:31And Maurice Montboucher is acquitted.
26:34We had been led to believe that it was a solid ironclad case,
26:40and he was walking out in the same evening.
26:44He told his supporters that not only would he beat the beef,
26:47but he would make it to a boxing match coming up after the jury had spoken.
26:52It's over! It's over!
26:54And he actually did go to that boxing match,
26:58and take it a step further, got a standing ovation once he arrived.
27:03Montboucher was the first to be acquitted as a hero,
27:06which is, for us, incomprehensible.
27:14The applause.
27:16Alright! Alright!
27:18We were all bewildered.
27:20How is society adulating a murderer?
27:24It was like a sense of loss,
27:27and a sense of mistrust and misconfidence in the system.
27:32Here's this well-known killer who's treated as a hero.
27:38Montboucher is riding high.
27:46It feels and seems like the Hells Angels can do no wrong.
27:50Law enforcement appears powerless to do anything to combat the issue,
27:55and they keep finding and innovating new ways to make money hand over fist.
28:02Marijuana exportation was extremely profitable for many criminal organizations,
28:06but also the Hells Angels.
28:08The Hells Angels embark on an enterprise the scope and scale of that had never been seen before.
28:14It involves the bikers, the Mexican cartel, and the mafia,
28:18and at the end of the day, it will end up being worth upwards of a billion dollars.
28:24The linchpin would end up being Jimmy Cornyea.
28:32Jimmy Cornyea was probably one of the most unusual cases that I've ever had.
28:38Cornyea's drug operation was essentially a continent-wide cycle of drugs and money.
28:45It started in Vancouver with marijuana that was grown out there.
28:50This is top-of-the-line hydroponic marijuana,
28:54ten times more potent than the marijuana that some of us old-timers would be used to.
29:01That marijuana would be transported through a series of stash houses,
29:05ending up in New York, where it was distributed wholesale.
29:08The bulk cash that was derived from the marijuana sales in New York
29:13would be flown by private planes to Southern California,
29:17where it was picked up, used to purchase cocaine.
29:21That cocaine was transported back up to Canada, and then the cycle would begin over again.
29:26The operation was so large that it required tens if not hundreds of people to carry it out.
29:36The Hells Angels were an integral part of this whole thing.
29:39Sometimes they fronted money for him.
29:43Sometimes they provided protection for him when he had shipments, either of money or drugs.
29:49What they were primarily involved with was the transportation.
29:53And really, that is the most important part of the entire enterprise.
29:58Because if you can't get the drugs from Vancouver to Montreal,
30:03if you can't get the drugs from Montreal into the United States,
30:07if you can't get the cocaine from Los Angeles to Vancouver,
30:10there is no enterprise, there is no business.
30:13By 2012, it was a billion-dollar business.
30:17For every dollar that they spent on marijuana at the beginning of the cycle,
30:20by the time it was at the end of the cycle, it was turning into $8.
30:24The organization was making about a 900% profit.
30:28Who knew that marijuana, writ large, was so unbelievably successful?
30:34Law enforcement has been dealt crushing blow after crushing blow
30:38every time they start to investigate the Hells Angels.
30:42But they finally catch a break with Sandra Craig.
30:46Raymond Craig and his wife Sandra, they weren't violent.
30:49They were just a rich married couple in suburban Montreal.
30:53My date is February 21st, 2002.
30:57And to my left is Sandra Craig.
31:00When I first met Sandra, first of all,
31:02she looked like, I'd say, a rich suburban mom.
31:07She dressed very well, and she didn't look anything like a drug trafficker.
31:12Her father in Bolivia was a drug lord,
31:15so they sort of had carte blanche to import cocaine.
31:19And they had the sophistication of the South American drug lords to get it there.
31:23The Craigs dealt with everybody, and everybody sort of left them alone.
31:28Because they could supply everyone.
31:30She had imported multitudes of kilograms of cocaine into Montreal
31:35and became associated with the Hells Angels.
31:39Could you explain to me how you first came to deal with members of the Hells Angels?
31:59There was a dispute over a huge cocaine shipment that went wrong.
32:04The Hells Angels decided it was time to eliminate the Craigs.
32:10Sandra was driving on her way to meet the Hells Angels.
32:21As she went down to grab it, a car pulled up next to her
32:24and unleashed a fusillade of gunfire.
32:28She survived the attack only for the fact
32:31that she was going for her phone found by the floor of her car.
32:36Her husband was killed, and she was left alive
32:39because the Hells Angels just didn't respect women very much.
32:42They thought, what can she do?
32:44Well, what she did was she walked into a police station
32:47and she gave them the records from the Nomad's Bank.
32:51When I was having a meeting with moms, I have papers.
32:55And where is that paper today?
32:57That paper, I gave it to the authorities.
33:00It was a key piece of evidence to help us tie in Mombouchi to that specific drug trade.
33:09This will lead to Operation Springtime,
33:12the biggest mass arrest at that time of Hells Angels in history.
33:18March 28, 2001.
33:21Everybody knew that at 6 a.m. it was go time.
33:25The police will arrest more than 120 people,
33:29about 80 full-patch members of the Hells Angels.
33:32I mean, this is like the police in New York
33:34arresting every single member of the mafia.
33:36It does not happen.
33:38It's not just the police.
33:40It's the police.
33:42This is like the police in New York arresting every single member of the mafia.
33:45It does not happen.
33:47They basically shut down the Hells Angels in Quebec.
33:51And they arrested all of the nomads except for Stadnik,
33:55who was vacationing in Jamaica.
33:57The Jamaicans actually arrested him on their behalf.
34:00Stadnik is in a jail cell in Jamaica, awaiting extradition.
34:03His arrest is seen as a huge blow to the forces of the Hells Angels.
34:09Once Stadnik was in custody by the Jamaican authorities,
34:13we then traveled to Jamaica, walking into Kingston Prison.
34:18With my partner, we both looked at each other and we said,
34:22you get my back and I'll get your back.
34:25Kingston Jail, it's like no other jail that I've ever seen in my life.
34:30I was under the impression that Stadnik would be elated to see our arrival,
34:36thinking that he could return to a Canadian jail
34:40where he could get three square meals a day at gym time and a comfortable bed.
34:46And I said, well, how would you like to stay here for a couple of more weeks?
34:50He looked at me and he says, I'd be running the place.
34:53As we were leaving the jail with Stadnik in handcuffs,
34:58there were prisoners yelling, yo Walter, and raising their fist.
35:05There's no doubt in my mind that he would have found allegiance in that prison over a few weeks.
35:14A huge courthouse was built next to the Gwang Prison for what they called the Mecca Trials.
35:21Sixteen and a half million dollars was spent underground tunnels,
35:25one-way mirrors, so that you wouldn't be able to see the jury.
35:29I mean, it was amazing to see that trial, right?
35:32Where you had dozens of Hells Angels hidden behind glass.
35:36This was a mega show and a mega trial.
35:39Springtime 2001, the largest crackdown ever, and Stadnik reprised catch.
35:45Walter Stadnik went down for 20 years.
35:48Eight other Hells members are awaiting trial on the same evidence,
35:52including Maurice Mamboucher, the head of the Hells Angels organization.
35:58I told Mamboucher, you know, that you're going to go down like all the others,
36:02whether you think you're the greatest man on earth or not.
36:09After several years of being a bit of a magician
36:14and slipping out of what looked to be surefire murder convictions and gangsterism convictions,
36:20Mamboucher is finally incarcerated on a life sentence.
36:25Maurice Mamboucher's ultimate sentence was a relief.
36:29It was a relief for law enforcement that justice was served.
36:34For the rest of the club, at that time, there was insight for something else.
36:41But it was time this thing stopped.
36:47Mamboucher had been so powerful, and now he's facing life in prison.
36:56And from prison, he continues to monitor and oversee a lot of Hells Angels drug activity.
37:04He was dodging murder contracts on his head behind bars.
37:10He still tried to operate the way he did before.
37:13He was a tough guy in there. He was associated with loan sharking business.
37:17He tried to have people knocked off.
37:19A number of Native American gangbangers in prison tried to kill him.
37:23He became incredibly paranoid that he was being poisoned,
37:26so he went on a potato chip diet where he would only eat potato chips
37:30because he was convinced they couldn't poison potato chips.
37:32His own members thought he went too far.
37:35So, you know, it just tells you what kind of an individual he was.
37:40Those that weren't tight with him, in hindsight, were like,
37:43that guy was a disaster, and they kicked him out of the club.
37:47Great Quebec Biker War, that left so much carnage in its wake
37:52and led to, you know, dozens of Hells Angels to be killed,
37:57dozens of Hells Angels to be imprisoned.
38:00There were a lot of bosses in the Hells Angels that blamed Mamboucher.
38:06How would you feel if you're putting your, you know, your life on the line every day
38:12for a guy who is making, you know, millions of dollars,
38:18and at the end of the day, you're just kind of collateral damage for him?
38:22He was planning to escape from prison in different ways, by helicopter, this, that.
38:28It didn't work out. We found out about it.
38:31And eventually, he had a very serious depression in jail.
38:37Too bad for him.
38:39The king is locked up in jail, and now the whole system is in jeopardy of collapsing.
38:44If last month was the Superbust, then today was Superbust Part 2.
38:57Here in British Columbia, where the Hells Angels are very active in the drug trade,
39:02they are among the richest Hells Angels in the world.
39:05There's Hells Angels there that are multi-multi-millionaires.
39:08David Giles' nickname was Influence, which, you know, showed, really,
39:12the scope of his influence within the Hells Angels,
39:15both in Canada and, in fact, internationally.
39:18Dave Giles was involved in the coordination of high-level criminality,
39:24the coordination of loads of primarily cocaine coming into Canada.
39:29David Giles did end up finally getting busted in,
39:33It was something right out of Miami Vice.
39:35This is what $4 million looks like.
39:38The Mounties allege it came from the Hells Angels, part of a $15 million cocaine deal.
39:43These RCMP undercover operators are just amazing actors.
39:49Like, if they sit next to you in a bar, and you've never smoked in your life,
39:53all of a sudden, you're smoking with this guy, and you don't know why.
39:56Why am I smoking out in the street?
39:58All of a sudden, you're smoking with this guy, and you don't know why.
40:00Why am I smoking out in the street?
40:02And it's these guys that are able just to talk you into stuff, right?
40:05The investigation led Mounties from Kelowna to Mexico and Panama.
40:09There were meetings with the undercover officers who were posing as
40:13South American drug lords based in Miami.
40:16It was an extremely lengthy investigation that stretched from the U.S.
40:21to Canada to Mexico and to Panama.
40:24And they hoodwinked Giles and his crew.
40:27And Giles and his crew got arrested.
40:29You've lost the game, you're arrested, you're in jail.
40:32Also, they kicked him out of the club while he was in jail.
40:36So he went into jail naked.
40:39He had no patch.
40:41It's bad news for Dave Giles.
40:44And at this point, people were asking themselves within the club,
40:48what more could go wrong with the Hells Angels?
40:50But they didn't know that there was a lot more to go wrong as we move into the future.
40:58Cornelius basically hired one of the best trial lawyers in New York City.
41:03So you could tell he wanted to go to trial.
41:06He wanted to challenge the evidence.
41:09So they have seizures of cocaine, kilos of cocaine,
41:13tens, hundreds of pounds of marijuana,
41:16huge amounts of physical evidence.
41:19One of the biggest risks of being a part of a group like the Hells Angels
41:24is there's always an opportunity for somebody to be informing on you.
41:28Informants are very important.
41:30I mean, we don't have a crystal ball to work with.
41:33So we need these people.
41:35All of the co-defendants of Cornelius played guilty.
41:38Most of them played guilty, became brats.
41:41And he was the last man standing.
41:44So I told him that I thought my best estimate,
41:48we had a 10% chance of winning this trial.
41:51We had a 10% chance of winning this trial, even with a good judge.
41:56And I said, if we lose, pine box.
41:59And after some negotiations, we worked out a deal.
42:04Essentially, what this case was really about
42:07was Cornelius enriching, empowering, and strengthening
42:12incredibly dangerous criminal organizations.
42:22There was a sense that the reign of terror by the Hells Angels was over.
42:28The nomads, they were disbanded.
42:31They had Boucher in prison.
42:33But no matter how bad things seemed to get for the Hells Angels,
42:37they would always regroup and come back even stronger and more ferocious.
42:43There are a bunch of raids. Hells Angels are picked up.
42:47Crime loves a vacuum, doesn't it?
42:50And there are always people to step into it.
42:53Police and prosecutors realized that fighting the Hells Angels
42:56is a bit like guacamole, right?
42:58Whenever we take people out of the picture,
43:00they seem to have people that take their places.
43:022001, they arrest almost every single Hells Angel,
43:06close down most of the chapters, put dozens of people away.
43:11A few years later, the Hells Angels roughly have the same number.
43:15400, 500 members across Canada.
43:20And so the Hells Angels are back in business.
43:26The Hells Angels have had epic clashes,
43:29brutal wars that have left dozens and dozens of people dead.
43:32The police decide, we have to stop this war.
43:35Let's go for the weaker character.
43:38We had the stash with the guns.
43:40We had the stash with the narcotics.
43:42We had the main players.
43:44We had them on attempted murder.
43:46We had the pagans and the Hells Angels
43:48swinging it out with bats, guns, and knives
43:50in the banquet hall as well as in the parking lot.
43:53It was a bloody, bloody affair.

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