Hells Angels - Kingdom Come Episode 5 - Red Wedding
Hells Angels Kingdom Come Episode 5
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00:15Gregory Wooley is fearsome. He was a unicorn the black man in the Hells Angels
00:21Aaron's the nickname Picasso
00:23Ostensibly because he's very good at rearranging people's faces. Well, he was on a collision course
00:29with Marty Robert
00:31Robert is climbing the ladder to become boss of the Hells Angels
00:35Okay, and any of that were members of different crime groups. Robert is probably the most
00:42consequential crime boss in North America right now
00:51Shake
00:54When they call my number
00:57I'll shut him down
01:01You can't stop me
01:04Can't stop me
01:07You can bury me lay down
01:10I'll rise
01:26You
01:34It's one thing for police here to arrest the bikers but getting a conviction is far from certain for every biker
01:40They lock up. There are others waiting in the wings willing to take over
01:45The house angels
01:47Organization is extremely racist. No non white members are allowed to wear a patch
01:53Member cannot be another skin color than white
01:58You know in the landscape of
02:01Organized crime and the Hells Angels you don't get a stranger tail than Gregory Wooley
02:11He was a unicorn black man in the Hells Angels operation Gregory Picasso Wooley is one of the most
02:18compelling fascinating and unique
02:21Figures in the history of North American organized crime
02:24Who is Gregory Wooley first of all thought to be one of the smartest people involved in the Hells Angels?
02:30he makes use of his talent to be a go-between he became close to the mafia and
02:36Became instrumental in the Hells Angels
02:40He made himself very useful
02:43So Greg Wooley's ascension has nothing to do with skin color, but more to do with his dominance towards
02:49violent criminal activities
02:53Earns the nickname Picasso Wooley gets his nickname Picasso
02:59Ostensibly because he's very good at rearranging people's faces
03:06Was a go-to guy to get dirty work done
03:10So Gregory Wooley is Haitian origin, he's a first-generation he arrived in Montreal with his parents
03:16He grew up in Saint-Michel
03:18It's a working-class area a lot of gangs a lot of street gangs a lot of black street gangs. I
03:24Think people see Greg as a leader the kind of person who didn't have to talk but when he was talking
03:33It counts
03:35He had quite a charisma about him he had a quite a violent streak in him
03:41Gregory Wooley allegedly committed his first murder at the age of 17
03:45Not even an adult yet when he killed a rival Haitian street gangster. I
03:51Was a detective and I had arrested Wooley in possession of a weapon handgun
03:57You know, obviously he would not talk to me. I go back to my office
04:00And as I answer somebody with a heavy
04:04Haitian accent tells me that if I want to continue to have a good life, I might as well just let him go right now
04:13He was the leader of a gang of Haitian immigrants called the crackdown posse
04:18They modeled themselves after the Crips in Los Angeles with blue and the colors
04:22But he was a very good guy. He was a good guy. He was a very good guy
04:26They modeled themselves after the Crips in Los Angeles with blue and the colors and he was very effective and he caught the eye of
04:33mom say and despite
04:35Him being a racist. He liked Greg
04:39He became close to Maurice Mambo Shea the leader of the house angels
04:48Wooley sometimes acted as a bodyguard for Boucher and this is perplexing in the sense that mom Boucher was a pretty rabid
04:56Nazi sympathizer
04:58Racist white nationalist and he brings close to him this this Haitian gangbanger
05:04Then something happens that is extremely rare Maurice mom Boucher
05:09Taps him to become a member of the Rockers
05:13Because he was black he couldn't join the health angels
05:15They had to make a gang for him the Rockers had two groups
05:18Baseball team which beat people up and the football team which killed
05:22The Rockers were like a strike force doing the dirty work for the hell's angels
05:29Greg Wooley will become one of the most ferocious Rockers in the midst of the biker war
05:37Helping the hell's angels carry out many killings
05:41Hell's angels will try to take over territory and there will be resistance and there's resistance
05:45There is going to be bloodshed a rival gang member is shot dead
05:50The Rockers were just an armed wing of the hell's angels to fight their wars for them. They were the real deal
05:56So when you ask me, did you have to kill someone to become part of a Rockers club? I'd say yeah
06:02Yeah, I don't doubt that for a minute. I don't doubt any of that for a minute. He was able to
06:08Kill he was able to hit he was able to commit any acts of violence that you would ask him
06:14He was able to do it. Not many people want to actually put a gun to someone's head
06:19Not many people want to put knuckles in someone's face
06:22Greg
06:24Didn't mind that now was it for his own pleasure? Was it for his desire to go up? I can't answer that question
06:34Gregory Wooley will lead the Rockers and Maurice Boucher's son
06:40Francis Boucher is
06:42Underneath him. So you've got this black guy commanding the son of
06:47Maurice mom Boucher, so he is fierce
06:51Mom Boucher was a classic sociopath and in some ways maybe Greg Wooley was too and you know
06:59birds of a feather
07:02Mom Boucher control the hell's angels in a very violent way in a very hard way
07:08Gregory Wooley does the same thing with part of the hell's angels and
07:13Part of all the other ethnic communities that he controls whether it's the black syndicate gangs
07:18Whether it's his relation with the Italian Mafia and others. He has the way to pull these people together to work together without killing themselves
07:27Gregory Wooley was special. He was a black man, but he was not a black man admitted for any favor. He was tough
07:34He was smart. He brought various different groups together
07:39Greg Wooley was incredibly ostentatious with his dress with his overall spending habits his behavior on the street
07:47He was somebody that lived in a big mansion built for a godfather
07:52So this is a guy that really likes living the good life likes to show it off and likes people to
07:59Look at him and admire him
08:02Gregory Wooley's wife was a reality TV star
08:10I met Greg when I was 26 years old. I used to work in a club back then
08:17The first impression I had of him was he was really calm. It was nice to be around him
08:23He was raised by women. So he was not macho. He knew what to be
08:27He was raised by women. So he was not macho. He knew what to be with women very well because he was like kind of very delicate
08:35Obviously he experienced racism a lot, but I think it was
08:40It was part of him to just trying to be like, you know what? Let's be the bigger person out of it
08:46The reputation was really bad. And I think it was kind of hard at the beginning because I
08:52Me I knew the real person
08:56He told me about his past he told me where he was coming from and I just
09:01I don't know. I felt in love with the person at the end of the day not with the rest
09:10Greg has been to prison at least three times and he's still going he's still out there
09:16Greg Wooley is kind of going in and out of prison throughout the 2000s
09:20He takes a number of plea deals avoiding the heavier sentences
09:24One of the first times Gregory Wooley was arrested a psychologist
09:29Did a forensic report on him and said that?
09:33Gregory Wooley
09:35wanted
09:37approval and power
09:40Gregory Wooley is good at making contacts
09:45He starts befriending some of the young mafia leaders
09:48So here you have this guy who's got his feet in both camps the mafia and the Hells Angels
09:55He was close to the Italians. He was the middleman if you needed somebody to do a hit or a dirty work
10:02The Rizzuto mob family was the Roman Empire. It was a thing of beauty in the criminal underworld
10:09Nick Rizzuto was the patriarch of the Rizzuto crime family
10:14They were Sicilian, well connected to the Sicilian mafia, well connected to the American mafia
10:22Vito Rizzuto moved to Canada with his family when he was a teenager
10:27Montreal's Teflon Don
10:30Best lawyer in the country over here
10:33Vito Rizzuto, the Canadian godfather
10:37Vito Rizzuto was a tall gentleman
10:40And he was quite a handsome dude
10:44Vito Rizzuto was charismatic
10:47A great communicator
10:49He spoke four languages
10:51He had an international connection
10:54He liked the idea to make deals with people
10:57Vito Rizzuto is the most powerful mafia figure in North American organized crime
11:04That's why he liked Greg Wooley
11:06Because he saw himself in Greg Wooley
11:07As somebody that could get everybody to a negotiating table and sell something as good for everybody
11:15Vito Rizzuto and Gregory Wooley were doing time in the same prison
11:20When they met and they became friends
11:23Well, it's the same prison that's stuck between a rock and a hard place
11:28And he needed protection and he used Wooley
11:31So you have this Haitian street gang leader
11:36Who by the early 2000s is tied into the highest ranks of the Hells Angels and Rizzuto Mob
11:42Than anybody that isn't in the Hells Angels or Rizzuto Mob
11:45At the same time, he was on a collision course
11:49With one of the most powerful up-and-coming Hells Angels leaders in the world
11:54That man was Marty Robert
12:01Marty Robert was a rising, powerful figure
12:05Had that kind of charisma that Maurice Montmouchet had
12:10Marty Robert is probably the most consequential crime boss in North America right now
12:16He's a full-fledged Hells Angels
12:19He's in charge of Quebec City and that region
12:23And he's a major player in the drug trafficking world
12:30He is someone that in a lot of ways fits the archetype of a biker boss
12:36But then there are also very important aspects of him that are different
12:42You would never think he's a biker
12:45If he's dressed up and could be anybody
12:48From your local accountant to whatever
12:51Good-looking guy, it's a late 40s, early 50s-ish
12:55Shorter than I thought
12:57He's not very tall
12:59Small guy, quiet
13:02A little arrogant, a little pushy
13:05Well, he had like two different voices, right?
13:08To me, he would look down at me, he would talk
13:10You know, he was just kind of, meh, grump
13:13I was powerlifting then and I'd put on some weight since the last time he'd seen me
13:18And he goes, oh, he grabs my stomach
13:20And he goes, oh, get into good life, eh Mike?
13:24Was Martin politically savvy?
13:26I think you have to be, to be in the club as long as you are
13:30He did his time and, you know, so yeah, for sure, for sure
13:34He knew who to talk to
13:35He knew who to talk to
13:54Martin Robert, we knew he was a member of the Death Riders
13:57Yes, our intelligence had showed that
14:00It was a Hell's Angel feeder club
14:02And then I believe it eventually patched over to the Hell's Angels
14:05There's a lot of prominent Hell's Angels right now
14:08And guys that are in Marty's inner circle that started with the Death Riders
14:12Marty made his bones in the Hell's Angels
14:15Fighting on the front lines of the great Quebec biker war
14:18Which raged from 1994 to 2002
14:22Another death in the biker war, and police are expecting others
14:26Which left dozens of bodies strewn on the street
14:30Marty Robert was involved in a number of murder conspiracies
14:34Proved his merit, and by the late 2010s
14:39He was on a meteoric rise to the very top echelons of the Hell's Angels
14:45Not just in North America, but across the globe
14:48In fact, there is no chief of the Hell's Angels in Quebec
14:51We can't say that Martin Robert is a chief
14:54But he is one of the most influential members
14:55And above all, he is the only member of the Hell's Angels World
15:01He sits on the main table of the world organization of the Hell's Angels
15:25At the same time, Marty Robert is climbing the ladder to become boss of the Hell's Angels
15:32Annie Arabic is Sharon Simon's daughter
15:35Sharon Simon was known as the Queen of Cannabis in Canada
15:39She was one of the biggest wholesale marijuana dealers in all of North America
15:45Very wealthy, they run a lot of the casinos
15:50Online casinos too
15:52What did traditional organized crime, the bikers, they're all there
15:56Sharon and Annie were both prominent members of the Mohawk underworld
16:01The Mohawk tribe was the most populous indigenous nation in all of Quebec
16:07It is grouped into three different communities
16:10The reserve is a port of entry for Quebec for narcotics and guns
16:16It is also a door that leads to the states for narcotics and guns also
16:22So if you take control of that, well, it's like taking control of the port of Montreal
16:30If you have a door in the port of Montreal to export your narcotics and drugs
16:35Well, you're in there and you're going to make a lot of money
16:37But if you can do the same thing by going through the states easily, well, that's a grand slam
16:43In 2006, Sharon Simon and Annie Arbic are part of a big indictment brought by the Crown
16:50Targeting their wholesale marijuana business
16:53They both have to go do prison sentences
16:56It was for drug possession and illegal arms
17:00The daughter was condemned to 42 months in jail
17:04Because she was recognized as a member of the organized association
17:09Annie Arbic had a chance to get out relatively early
17:13And all she had to do was denounce Marty Robert and her affiliation with him and the Hells Angels
17:19And she refused to do that and had to do an extra couple years in prison
17:23Out of her love and loyalty towards Marty
17:26She refused to break up with him or renounce him and was refused parole
17:32That's looked upon as really good in the biker world
17:36She was loyal
17:38Maybe they were really in love, Annie Arbic and Marty Robert
17:41For all we know
17:43But yes, it would strengthen their relationship
17:46Because she showed loyalty
17:49His wife didn't break up with him
17:52So she'd get out of jail, that's big
17:55That means that she could keep a secret
17:57I know that Marty looked at that as
18:00She's going to do prison time for me
18:03She's the ultimate catch
18:05But soon, Marty would be leaving Annie to serve a prison sentence of his own
18:14Seven known associates of the members of the Hells Angels biker gang
18:17Are facing charges of first degree murder
18:20Operation Shark was a multidisciplinary operation
18:23That was really to go and end the biker war once and for all in Quebec
18:30So thanks to their informant, they have all their information
18:34They sweep across and north of the border
18:38Pretty much locking up every single biker in the province of Quebec
18:43Martin Robert, he was one of more than 150 members of the Hells Angels
18:48Swept off the streets of Quebec
18:50More than 150 members of the Hells Angels swept up in Operation Shark
18:57So I've never represented the Hells Angels
19:01I represented men who, according to the police, are members of the Hells Angels
19:09There's a difference between that
19:12They were polite, never aggressive, never violent
19:16Funny, they made me laugh
19:17They were super serious about their case, they worked a lot on it
19:21They helped us out quite a bit
19:24The accused, who were allowed laptops in their cells
19:28And did go through a lot of the evidence
19:31Basically got a master's degree on how the police investigated them
19:36About half of the lawyers in Montreal, men and women, older, younger
19:41I mean, everybody was doing the Shark trial
19:44But then a few years later, you're reading these headlines
19:48Bikers acquitted, bikers walk, sentence reduced, cases thrown out
19:53Superior Court Justice James Brunton put an abrupt end to it
19:57Criticizing the Crown for failing to turn over all of its evidence to the defense
20:02Over a hundred plead guilty to much lesser charges than murder
20:08For another three dozen at least, their charges are reduced or thrown out
20:12At least five openly walk on murder charges
20:16So Operation Shark starts with a good idea, starts with a good investigation
20:21And it all implodes
20:24They made a few mistakes, big ones, yeah
20:29It made the public wonder, well what was this all for?
20:33How do these men again walk on a technicality?
20:37So Marty Robert benefited with his light sentencing
20:41Not from his innocence or the evidence against him
20:45But from the complete screw-up at the prosecutorial level
20:55Marty came out of the Shark trials largely unscathed
20:59With his reputation, if anything, improved
21:02One thing we know for a fact
21:03Is that Marty Robert and Greg Woolley were never very close
21:07This wasn't the type of relationship that Woolley shared with Mon Boucher
21:12Boucher was put on trial for ordering the murder of two prison guards
21:16He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years
21:21Maurice Mon Boucher, he walked until he was tried a second time
21:26So eventually some things catch up to you
21:29Boucher's imprisonment makes him increasingly irrelevant
21:33For a number of years until in 2022
21:37The final chapter of Mon Boucher was written in prison
21:40Mon Boucher died of his battle with throat cancer
21:45I think that Gregory Woolley was forever associated with Maurice Mon Boucher
21:52So when Boucher lost his power, Woolley was also, in effect, became a target
21:59The Hells Angels and the Mafia, they're not quite sure where they're going
22:05There's no popular leader, there's no Maurice Boucher
22:09The leaders of the Mafia are not in total control
22:13So it's a very unsteady and dangerous situation
22:22Marty Robert and Greg Woolley were both rising stars of the Canadian underworld of the 1990s
22:28But there's an equilibrium, and this fabric was very tenuous
22:33And it was all held together by the Rizzuto crime family
22:36We have heard how a huge police sweep saw 70 suspected members of the Rizzuto family organization arrested
22:44The Rizzuto crime family was into narcotics
22:49But it wasn't the only profit stream
22:52There was loan sharking with the infiltration of the casino
22:55Sports betting was huge
22:58There was this symphony of criminal synchronization
23:02Where you had the bikers, the Italians, the street gangs
23:06All working together to make hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars
23:13Contrary to the cinema portrayals of what a godfather would look like
23:19Vito was a very diplomatic, very respectful person
23:23Rizzuto, he understood that the violence could compromise the business
23:30Not only of the Angels, but all criminal organizations
23:34So the intuition was, let's work together
23:38So he practically built a consortium
23:45I had the opportunity to work with Pietro Polletti, who was my partner
23:49Pietro Polletti and I were partners for almost three years together
23:54The fact that Pietro and I had Italian heritage
23:57Being able to understand the language, able to speak the language
24:01Was a definite advantage in investigating Italian organized crime
24:05Got along great together
24:07And when you work traditional organized crime, especially the older generation
24:12They have a hard time speaking to a police officer who they're just not trusted
24:15Knowing that I'm Italian, he'll know where to get me if I screw up
24:19Or betray him, he'll find my parents, you understand?
24:25They asked Pietro and I to get Vito arrested and extradited to the United States
24:31The Americans indict him for a mafia slaying in 1981
24:38This is a huge body blow
24:41Vito did his duty as a made man of the mafia
24:43He participated in the murder of three members of the Bonanno crime family
24:51It was a January morning, it was bitterly cold
24:55Rizzuto's house was a Tudor mansion, quite an old house
24:59But very well kept, very vast
25:02His wife answered the door in a robe, it was quite early
25:05Vito was at the top of the stairs
25:07He came down the stairs and he asked his wife, says,
25:09Joanne, make Pietro a coffee
25:12And I said, it's not time, this is serious
25:15There's an arrest warrant for you, sir
25:18I read to him the warrant
25:21He didn't ask any questions
25:24He got dressed, very sharp, suit
25:27He knew he was going to court, it was like a business transaction
25:31He took it very lightly, actually
25:34During Vito Rizzuto's extradition, the trip to the airport
25:38We were all in the vehicle together
25:41Vito was quite prophetic
25:43Predicting his absence would lead to a lot of violence, a lot of instability
25:49As he was getting on the plane, he turned to both the press and the police
25:55And this is the worst idea I've ever seen
25:57If you take me out of Canada, the entire world is going to implode
26:02And he was right
26:04He knew that without him on the scene, the walls were going to cave in
26:08And the roof was going to crater
26:10And it happened relatively quickly
26:13Nick Rizzuto Jr. shot dead in the street in late December
26:18Suspected rivals murdered Rizzuto Jr.
26:21He was shot dead in the street in late December
26:23Suspected rivals murdered Rizzuto's father in what was considered a humiliating way
26:28A sniper's bullet killing him as he sat in his own home
26:32His son was killed, and his father was killed
26:36There's a new vacuum in Montreal, and there's going to be a lot of bloodshed
26:41The Rizzuto mob came under attack from an insurgence from within
26:46When Vito Rizzuto went to prison
26:48Greg Wooley stepped in and arranged a support alliance for the Rizzuto mob and the Hells Angels
26:55To provide them muscle, weapons, resources in this war against their insurgents
27:01You're happy to come back to Canada?
27:03Rizzuto landed last night at Pearson, and was promptly escorted out of the airport by police
27:08After Rizzuto served his time in prison, he returned to Toronto where he worked
27:15In prison, he returned to Toronto with one thing in his mind, revenge
27:23He tried to kill all the people who betrayed him
27:28When he was released 14 months ago, most predicted retirement, not retribution
27:33Instead, there was bloodshed
27:36Several figures believed to be Rizzuto challengers were killed, and Rizzuto ended up once again on top
27:42But he had to deal with a problem in his lung, cancer
27:49The Godfather will die
27:51One of the most feared former mafia leaders in Canada is dead
27:57Vito Rizzuto died of a very aggressive form of cancer in December of 2013
28:03Now, of course, the big question is, what's next for the notorious crime family?
28:08When Vito Rizzuto, the Canadian Godfather dies, hundreds turn out to his funeral, it's covered massively
28:16The body of 67-year-old Vito Rizzuto was carried into the church, members of his family following behind
28:23You begin to see a changing of the guard
28:26Many are predicting tumultuous times for organized crime in Montreal
28:30Greg Woolley, he was at the funeral
28:32To have Woolley be at the funeral tells you just how much Mr. Woolley was willing to reach across the aisle
28:40And work with people he would never think he'd be willing to work with
28:43By attending the funeral, Woolley showed, very publicly, where his loyalties lay
28:49Even if that wasn't the smartest move
28:52And as far as we know, Martin Robert certainly wasn't there
28:56Vito Rizzuto's two top lieutenants took over for him
29:01Before they were assassinated a couple months apart from each other in the spring of 2016
29:08Which at point, the crime family was allegedly taken over by Leonardo Rizzuto, Vito Rizzuto's son
29:14He's a lawyer, and probably the intention of his father was to keep him away from the criminal operation
29:25In a lot of ways, there are parallels to Michael Corleone in The Godfather
29:32Without the result of becoming this great mafia leader
29:36Leonardo Rizzuto, like Michael Corleone, had never been raised to become a member of the crime family
29:43He was raised to go get a law degree and to go practice law
29:48It's not the same power that Vito had
29:53His family empire was in jeopardy
29:56The power vacuum caused by Vito Rizzuto's death continues to trigger violence
30:01Amongst the various factions in Montreal's Italian mafia
30:06Leonardo now has bullets going through his cars when he's driving
30:11He realized he's not safe
30:14In 2015, Gregory Woolley was convicted for drug trafficking and gangsterism
30:19He sat in jail until 2021
30:22Cops had warned him that things were fast changing in Montreal's gangster scene
30:27It's my opinion that Woolley wasn't taking into account the way the Montreal underworld had evolved
30:36He wants to kind of go about business as usual, and a lot has changed
30:41Without Vito Rizzuto or Mambousse, he wouldn't have been able to do what he's doing now
30:48He wants to kind of go about business as usual, and a lot has changed
30:53Without Vito Rizzuto or Mambousse alive, Greg Woolley lost all of his protection
31:18A month later
31:22Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Douceff says he's outraged
31:26that a high-ranking member of the Hells Angels held his wedding at a prominent Montreal venue
31:31The wedding of Martin Robert and Annie Arbeck caused a lot of outrage because it was so in-your-face
31:38Martin Robert, handsome, tough leader of the Hells Angels
31:42Annie Arbeck, who's connected through family ties to a drug network
31:49It was, for all intents and purposes, a royal wedding
31:53People from the Rizzuto mob were there, people from the inner circle of the Hells Angels were there
31:58People from other street gangs and street factions were there
32:02People from his mother-in-law's organization was there
32:05He looked like a king, he dressed like a king, and he was feted like a king
32:09Martin Robert has that star power that Mambousse had
32:14There was 20 reporters there, and cameramen, they didn't get there by accident
32:19This was Marty's people tipping them off
32:22It was a huge media event, huge
32:25The Hells Angels are a criminal, criminal, and the Irish Mafia is there also
32:31It was a lavish wedding, a bit too flashy, but it's fine
32:36The Windsor Ballroom, it's a historical site in Montreal
32:42It's huge, it's elaborate
32:45This is like the Ritz, right?
32:48You and I get married, we hire a wedding photographer to take pictures
32:52Well, when the Hells Angels get married, the police are out there taking pictures, creating their own wedding album
32:58You know, the police call it who's who in the zoo
33:01Well, it was a nice wedding
33:04I believe the British might say posh, a posh wedding, very chic
33:11I don't think there was any public outrage, no
33:15I thought the public thought it was fun to see all these pictures
33:19I think people who work in newspapers and who write headlines say, oh, big outrage
33:25No, no outrage
33:30I think that Martin Robert loved the sense of showing people how much money they have and how much power they have
33:39Annie Arbic is a social media influencer
33:43She's somebody that's very proud of her marriage to Martin Robert, doesn't hide it, kind of brags about it on social media
33:50And she's also known to be in the bodybuilding community
33:53It again goes back to the brilliance of the Hells Angels
33:56To be able to use PR as a way to say, well, how dangerous can we be?
34:01We get married in public, we're stars
34:07He's become a businessman
34:09And once you become a leader, you have to be a businessman, a CEO
34:14You can't go out with the boys and drink and breaking up bars
34:18By marrying Annie Arbic, Martin Robert just opened the door
34:22As a police slang, we use that term, a door
34:24When you have a door at customs, well, you have a door to bring in your drugs, you have a door to bring in your guns
34:31And he had a door to bring in or to bring out whatever he wanted from the states
34:36Because she comes from that Indian reserve that's just sitting on the border
34:42And which is controlled by them, so I would call it a grand slam for him back then
34:48When you talk about narcotics and how narcotics are traded globally
34:54It's an ecosystem, just like when a tree dies, the smaller trees under it, they grow and they take up the sun space
35:02It's the same thing
35:04They all fight over who's going to win the power and who's going to get more money
35:09But that's, I think, the same everywhere
35:12It's just nature
35:14It's not only human nature
35:15It's nature
35:19Greg Woolley shot to power a lot faster than Marty Robert
35:24And I think that might have bred some resentment in Robert when Robert eventually did take power
35:30And he had, at that point, oversight over Woolley
35:34And on the other end of it, Woolley's saying, you know, I've been a major player here for 20 years
35:40You just kind of came on the scene more recently
35:42If I came on the scene more recently, why do I have to listen to you?
35:46When there's a void, something's going to grow and fill that void
35:52I would say between 2019 and the summer of 2022
35:57There was a frame of the relationship between the Hells Angels and the Razoodle Mob
36:02Police say his murder was a targeted killing, but they won't discuss a motive
36:07We're hearing about an escalating turf war in the Montreal area
36:11Between the Hells Angels and members of the Razoodle crime family
36:15Who have long controlled gambling in the city of Montreal
36:18One of the rumors I've heard, although unconfirmed, it was the mafia
36:22Trying to stop the Hells Angels from getting too involved in the illegal sports betting world
36:28Gambling is the wheel that makes the entire underworld go round
36:33Gangland economy is centered on gambling
36:36It's the straw that serves the drink for everything else
36:39It makes money, joint ventures, that's networking and joint ventures
36:44They're all there to make money, and they all come across each other
36:47It's all a question of time
36:51Marty Robert has the vision that the Hells Angels should be at the top of that pyramid
36:56He sees weakness in the Razoodles
36:59And Marty said to himself, what's the point of being allied with these people
37:04When we can just absorb them
37:06You know, it's a hostile takeover
37:09It's a play by Marty to become the boss of Boston
37:15Martino Robert appears to have been one of the Hells Angels
37:20Who did not agree with siding with Razoodle
37:24If Marty Robert wanted to start a war with the Italians
37:27He would definitely have to get permission
37:29You can't just do it and make that decision on your own
37:32Even though, on a day-to-day basis, Marty Robert is the number one guy in Canada
37:38He still has to defer to Walter Stadnik
37:41For anything that would affect the club on a global basis
37:47The Hells Angels had to choose who they were going to side with
37:52Relations between the Hells Angels and the Razoodle crime family were on very thin ice
37:57And by early 2023, bodies would start to drop
38:02In the last few years, you're seeing even more disarray
38:09Vito Razzuto is dead
38:11His son, Leonardo, is the victim of an attempted assassination
38:16Alleged mafioso Leonardo Rizzuto was the target of an attempted murder Wednesday
38:22Leonardo Razzuto, the new godfather, if you want
38:26Gets targeted in a drive-by shooting
38:28The police quickly are fairly certain that it's orchestrated by Francesco Del Basso
38:35A rival member of the Italian mafia
38:38Del Basso was one of the most infamous and feared members of the Razoodle crime family throughout the 90s
38:46He was somebody that was known as a earner and a hitter
38:51Which is a rare combination in the underworld
38:54Usually you're one or the other
38:55You're either somebody who kills people or you're somebody that makes money
38:58You're not someone who can do both
39:00Del Basso was the senior member of the Razoodle crime family involved in the gambling industry
39:08If you owed him money, there's a famous surveillance tape of him talking to a debtor
39:15Who are you?
39:17The guy that's going to make you eat out of a straw for six months if you don't go pay him
39:20I'll make you a party?
39:22You hear me? And I'm not going to come and tell you again the next time I break your head
39:26You f****** clown
39:28When Rizzuto passed away, he asked for more power
39:33Most likely his request was denied
39:36And then that was the moment when he arranged and orchestrated the attempted murder of Leonardo Rizzuto
39:48He failed
39:50He tries to flee the country
39:52The police stop him
39:53Del Basso himself gets killed
39:56Montreal police confirm a 53-year-old man was shot
39:59The victim is said to be organized crime figure Francesco Del Basso
40:06Which is another example of how allies and enemies can switch places in a matter of minutes
40:14That really opened up a Pandora's box that hasn't been closed since then
40:20In the months that followed, Greg Wooley entered the picture in a much bigger way than he'd been in the past
40:29He's a bridge between the Hells Angels and the Mafia
40:34But that also means he's now got twice the enemies, right?
40:38He has enemies in the Hells Angels who don't agree with siding with the Rizzutos
40:43And he's got enemies in the Mafia who don't agree with Rizzuto and the Rizzuto clan holding on to power
40:52I think with Greg Wooley, you had a case of hubris
40:56This was a guy that has always been in very good standing with very powerful, dangerous people
41:03These were guys that didn't just like him, but almost looked at him as family
41:07Again, you had a situation where he was looking at things from the past
41:13And assuming that they translated to the present and future
41:18And that's just not the way it goes in the world that these people are existing in
41:25I wanted to be out at the end
41:28I'm like, listen, let's try to put some space between this and our family
41:33Greg Wooley robbed, killed, assaulted, sold drugs for this ideal or to be accepted
41:43This was the be-all and end-all of his life
41:47Every time that you take a side, well, there's another side who's not happy about it
41:51So that was kind of his life
41:54I think that anyone who's in the crime world is going to have people coming up behind him
42:00who want to knock them down
42:03For every biker they lock up, there are others waiting in the wings, willing to take over
42:14In July of 2023 at a biker rally, Wooley was present
42:19And there were a number of the Hells Angels that had issues with Wooley were present
42:23I'm told that the initial plan was to have a sit-down at this biker rally
42:29For Wooley to explain himself to some of these Hells Angels, some of Marty Robert's guys that were upset with him
42:35When they all got there, a sit-down didn't happen
42:38And instead, there was a kind of a coordinated show of intimidation
42:45Where Wooley was somewhere at the rally
42:48And a bunch of the Hells Angels that he had an issue with came and circled him
42:54And started to ride their bikes around him in a show of force
43:00The message being either you start to fly right or you're going to have to deal with the consequences
43:05And in this case, the consequences are murder and just being wiped off the page altogether
43:10That was Wooley's warning, he didn't listen, and you don't get another one
43:21Power is shifting in the mob world and it's causing tension and conflict
43:26I remember I was like, don't go there, you should be careful
43:29He's like, don't worry, nothing's going to happen
43:31He was ignoring the signs
43:33Imagine that you're in the middle of a rally and you see a bunch of people
43:37Nothing's going to happen
43:39He was ignoring the signs
43:41Imagine you pull up in your beautiful car with your beautiful wife and your child
43:45You aren't really thinking at that point of danger, and he should have
43:49There's a clean-up that's being made within the criminal community
43:53Organized crime will look like altar boys compared to these new groups coming out
43:57Trust me, it's going to be a man