Hells Angels - Kingdom Come Episode 6
Hells Angels - Kingdom Come Episode 6
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00:00The power is shifting in the mob world.
00:20There's a clean-up that's being made within the criminal community.
00:27An alleged underground gambling ring whose revenue, police say, exceeded $160 million.
00:33Well, anytime there's high levels of profit, there's going to be competition for that profit.
00:38It's a very scary time, and life is cheap.
00:40You think they're scared of somebody that says, I'm part of the Hells Angels.
00:45The modern-day gangland culture is the blood family mafia.
00:49I don't think the Andean's going to be very pretty.
00:53When I call down thunder, I shake the ground.
01:00When they call my number, I shut them down.
01:07You can't stop me, no.
01:10You can't stop me now.
01:13You can bury me way down under.
01:16I'll rise above.
01:19I'm gonna call down thunder, shake the ground.
01:27You can't stop me now.
01:40The bad guys and the police and everybody,
01:43we have a personal life and we have a professional life.
01:47My job is to catch these guys.
01:50Their job is to try to avoid me catching them.
01:54During their professional hours, they will do their criminal business.
01:59During their personal hours, it's their personal time.
02:03They have families, they have kids.
02:05Never mix.
02:14Gregory Woolley was the leader of a Haitian street gang in Montreal
02:18who fostered strong ties with both the Hells Angels and the Rizzuto crime family.
02:24The Rizzutos relied heavily on the Hells Angels for muscle, for resources.
02:30And then at some point, I would say between 2019 and 2022, that all frayed.
02:37And by 2022, the Hells Angels were intent on taking out the Rizzuto mob
02:42instead of helping the Rizzuto mob.
02:45Gregory Woolley played all sides of the Montreal and Quebec turf wars.
02:50And this is a very interesting part of Gregory Woolley as an outsider.
02:54Why was Gregory Woolley an outsider? He was black.
02:57These gangs are notorious for having white supremacist leanings,
03:01but Gregory Woolley was special.
03:04He was a go-to guy to get dirty work done.
03:09And the Italians would use him as well as the bikers would use him
03:13because he had access to street gangs.
03:18People call Gregory Woolley Picasso because he's made crime an art, quote-unquote.
03:23As somebody that could get everybody to a negotiating table
03:26and sell something as good for everybody.
03:29But by 2022, Woolley is starting to bump heads
03:34with some pretty major, powerful Hells Angels.
03:39Martin Lebed appears to have been one of the Hells Angels
03:44who did not agree with siding with Rizzuto.
03:48So Greg had enemies inside the Hells Angels.
03:51But he had chosen his side in the war, and it was a dangerous war.
03:55There were bodies all over the streets of mafia leaders.
04:01These feuds are reaching a boiling point in the summer of 2023.
04:09I don't know if Woolley had a complete grasp of the dynamite he was playing with.
04:18I'm not this kind of person who didn't know what my husband was
04:23or did in his past.
04:25But I mean, that was not the person he was to me.
04:30The media here are picturing him like he's a bad person,
04:33but they didn't know anything about his private life.
04:39He was a really good father and a great husband.
04:44Greg didn't want any of his kids to go through the same path.
04:47He wanted to put them in environments that make them
04:50very far from what he had to go through, what he chose, actually.
05:02He's a bridge between the Hells Angels and the mafia,
05:07but that also means he's now got twice the enemies, right?
05:12He was a threat to a lot of different people.
05:15Life becomes less complicated when you get a guy like that out of the way.
05:21Sometimes he was like, let's move to another country. I'm tired.
05:26He was not into it anymore. Since I got pregnant again,
05:30he was so happy when he knew it was like a daughter.
05:35Something changed in his attitude.
05:37He wanted to have a girl so bad, and he was so happy,
05:40so he started to disconnect himself from this other part of his life.
05:44I was kind of like, OK, this kid is really going to change him at the end.
05:48I wish Greg was more scared, because I remember I was a little like,
05:52no, don't do this, don't go there, you should be careful.
05:55He's like, don't worry, nothing's going to happen. He used to say that.
05:58And he was ignoring the signs.
06:02Every war, every conflict, every time that you take a side,
06:06well, there's another side who's not happy about it.
06:08He was a big player in a very dangerous game.
06:11He sided with the Rizzuto clan, the older leaders of the mafia.
06:16And there were people who had wanted badly to get rid of the Rizzutos.
06:21He had picked his side in the mafia war and the Hell's Angels war.
06:29So I never really talked about that day, because, I mean, I wasn't ready.
06:36I remember I gave birth, and we had that appointment at the doctor to check the baby.
06:41He wanted to be there, and I remember when we left the office,
06:45he was like, I'm so happy I came.
06:47And we were walking in the parking.
06:53He got into the passenger seat and opened up the door for me.
06:57And I looked at him in the back.
06:59I looked at him and I looked at my daughter and was like,
07:01wow, I made something good in life to have them in my life, you know?
07:05And he didn't have the car seat clip right yet, so I turned my head,
07:10I looked straight, and I hear the gunshot.
07:14I turned like this, and all the bullets were flying.
07:16I looked at my husband. He gets fast on clipping her.
07:19He did this. I saw him receive the bullets, and he fell on the floor.
07:24And I took him in my arms, and I looked at the baby.
07:27If the baby was OK, I saw she was OK.
07:29I closed the door. I hold him until the ambulance come, but it was too late.
07:34He lost too much blood.
07:38He was very powerful and very well connected.
07:42And today, Gregory Woolley was gunned down in a parking lot in broad daylight.
07:47When I saw the way that Gregory Woolley was shot,
07:50to me, it's just, you know, it's just the way it had to go. It had to come.
07:56There's a clean-up that's being made within the criminal community.
08:01Gregory Woolley, a long-time street gang leader and biker gang member,
08:05was shot dead in a parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Esselieu.
08:09Imagine you're Gregory Woolley. You pull up in your beautiful car with your beautiful wife and your child.
08:14You aren't really thinking at that point of danger. And he should have.
08:20Woolley was incredibly skilled at playing both sides of the fence.
08:24But in this case, it proved fatal.
08:29The death, they say, may be linked to organized crime.
08:33The fact that the people that put this contract on Woolley's head decided to do it in such a brazen manner,
08:40in such a disrespectful manner, was a message.
08:44It was a message that if you follow in his footsteps, we're going to do the same thing to you.
08:54There's always a settling of accounts.
08:57That always has been the excuse given by police when they can't solve a crime.
09:03But you know, in effect, why it's done. Settling of accounts.
09:09Observers are calling this a major event in Montreal's crime world.
09:13And there are fears of more violence to come.
09:17Looking back at it, I told him so many times to get out of this.
09:22I don't say this is what kills Greg.
09:24But I mean, some of the things he did at the end to help people didn't help him out.
09:29Police are still looking for a shooter who they say fled in a black SUV.
09:33Shortly after the shooting, a burned out vehicle was found in Montreal.
09:37There were a bunch of machinations that were going on behind the scenes
09:41with the Rizzutos, the Hells Angels, and other street gang leaders.
09:47The Hells Angels are moving in on their gambling turf.
09:50Rather than working with them like they have in the past.
09:54And Marty and the Hells Angels, he went from looking at it as
10:00we're happy to have a piece of this, to we want the whole pie.
10:09We're talking about $160 million.
10:12That's how much flowed through this sports website.
10:15People lose their, you know, livelihoods and money over it.
10:18And then there's the violence associated to control of the illegal gaming.
10:25Power is shifting in the mob world and it's causing tension and conflict.
10:34The police are doing everything they seemingly can to try and at least slow down
10:39motorcycle gangs, organized crimes.
10:42They put all sorts of multidisciplinary task forces on them.
10:48This is an example of a vest that's been seized during a police investigation.
10:57It's like their official uniform.
10:59They wear this patch to project power.
11:02They try and use this to scare rivals, show their affiliation.
11:06And they do have specific rules surrounding the vests.
11:11Organized crime groups are motivated by profit and making money.
11:15So if we can reduce that profit, it'll reduce their ability to commit further crimes.
11:22The mission of the Bike Enforcement Unit is to conduct investigations on any
11:27organized crime outlaw motorcycle gang.
11:30But the Hells Angels currently remain at the top of that list.
11:35They're like any criminal organization.
11:37They're going to learn from court disclosure.
11:39They're going to learn from mistakes they've made.
11:42The Hells Angels have had trouble in the last decades because there's been,
11:46as we all know, more heat, more police involvement, more prosecutions.
11:51A massive operation by multiple police forces to dismantle an alleged
11:55underground gambling ring whose revenue, police say, exceeded $160 million.
12:02With the corporatization of organized crime, what you're seeing is different methods.
12:08They're being more effective and more efficient, but also more in-your-face.
12:15Anytime there's high levels of profit, illegal profit, there's going to be competition for that profit.
12:22Project Hobart, which was really the biggest, most notorious outlaw biker gang
12:27prosecution in Ontario, was really about all of the things that have changed
12:33in Hells Angels, outlaw biker gangs' modes of operation.
12:38According to court documents, the biker gang allegedly poured millions gained
12:42from an underground gambling ring into cash, bikes, and even waterfront land.
12:47Project Hobart was initiated because of the violence associated with the illegal gaming market.
12:52So the Biker Enforcing Unit and the OPP obtained intelligence and information
12:56regarding an escalation of violence, and it included shootings, attempted murders, arsons.
13:01This presented a clear danger to the public, and police had to act on it.
13:07Court documents say millions flowed to the Hells Angels at the top of a pyramid of bookies,
13:12each with their own code name.
13:14The police put a number of resources onto this project.
13:18They charged a number of people, including the heads, the higher-ups here.
13:23We're not just talking the underlings.
13:26The top of the food chain for Project Hobart was Robert Barletta.
13:29Robert Barletta was a key figure in the investigation, and was identified as a leader
13:34in the organized crime group responsible for the illegal gaming network.
13:40Robert Barletta is thought to be one of the highest-ranking people in the Hells Angels.
13:46Almost untouchable.
13:48You could say Barletta's like the Warren Buffett of the bad guys.
13:51He knows where to go, and he knows what to invest, and he knows how to read people.
13:56And he doesn't waste time in stupid meetings.
13:58Teflon Robb is sort of a stealing of the terms that we use for other people that we know are untouchable.
14:04You'll remember the name Teflon Dawn.
14:08Now, Teflon Robb is the more polite version of it,
14:11because this is a guy that basically has never had a speeding ticket.
14:14He is somebody that is really in the crosshairs of a number of people,
14:18from law enforcement to people who are most assuredly not in the public eye.
14:23To people who are most assuredly not in law enforcement.
14:27Teflon Robb got his nickname for his ability to dodge law enforcement, dodge prison,
14:33and then frankly, you know, dodge bullets.
14:35In 2020, he survives an assassination attempt by people who were obviously angry at him.
14:43This assassination attempt was caught on surveillance footage.
14:47First we see Rob Barletta passing by.
14:49Then a few seconds later, two men appear.
14:52He's being followed.
14:57My sources said that it was a murder for hire plot,
15:00and likely these were members of street gangs carrying out this assassination attempt.
15:05And sometimes when you hire street gangs, you get what you pay for.
15:08You get incompetent hitmen.
15:10You can watch the video and you see they waited way too long.
15:13Barletta had passed the car, and he was just about in his house
15:17when they finally got out and started shooting.
15:19They opened fire, firing wildly.
15:21One of the guys was running backwards and shooting,
15:23even though he wasn't coming under fire.
15:26Barletta survived the attempt on his life,
15:29but would find himself the target of Project Hobart.
15:35The police bring, almost on a silver platter,
15:39The police bring, almost on a silver platter,
15:42to prosecutors, evidence, wiretaps, surveillance, video.
15:49Despite mountains of evidence, thousands of pages of evidence,
15:55we're talking over 20 people charged,
15:58and the prosecution turned into a complete and total bust.
16:04And it made the public wonder, well, what was this all for?
16:09And it made the public wonder, well, what was this all for?
16:15There was no plan.
16:17Those are the words a crown lawyer used to explain
16:19how the prosecution of a gambling ring supplying millions of dollars
16:22to Ontario Hells Angels is in tatters.
16:26One of the things in Canada that continues to be a struggle
16:29of the criminal justice system is not necessarily the police work
16:33that goes into these projects.
16:35Things fall apart at the prosecutorial level.
16:39But documents show the Crown Attorney's Office in Brampton,
16:42where the case would be prosecuted, was not prepared for the volume.
16:46They will have 65 police officers doing a project or a task force,
16:50but they will have one or two attorneys, one or two.
16:54Now, there's only so much human bandwidth in a day.
16:57The evidence generated by the efforts of 14 law enforcement agencies
17:01added up to more than 200,000 pages of documents.
17:05The prosecution gets bankers' boxes filled with documents.
17:08You can basically stack them up to the size of the Empire State Building.
17:12I mean that literally.
17:14Not a single jail sentence came out of Hobart.
17:17People are walking away with no record,
17:19and a paper trail obtained by CTV News
17:21shows the provincial government knew the case was in trouble,
17:24but did not do enough to save it.
17:27The cases against all of the alleged ringleaders, Robert Barletta,
17:30never went to trial.
17:33It really made them look incompetent and ineffective.
17:38And I can only imagine the response in the task force
17:41and the police department offices that say,
17:43we brought you a case on a silver platter.
17:45You can't prosecute it correctly?
17:47What in the world is going on?
17:49Uh, no, let me see.
17:51I'm not going to f***ing say it. Just, uh...
17:55So as we started this investigation,
17:57so, I'm going to go back.
17:59Police conduct investigations, gather evidence,
18:02and if there's reasonable grounds to substantiate criminal charges,
18:06we present that to the courts.
18:08Once it goes to the courts, it's out of police hands.
18:11It's their job to take that,
18:13those charges and that investigation through the court process.
18:17I think what we began to see
18:19is that mega-trials would lead to mega-headaches.
18:22When you have something like 160 defendants,
18:27it gets insane.
18:29And the justice system just gets calcified.
18:32The higher up you go
18:34in terms of the people you target
18:36in transnational organized crime,
18:38the more sophisticated the investigations have to be.
18:41The techniques have to be, you know,
18:43undercover officers, wiretaps, you know,
18:46seizing devices that are encrypted
18:48that have to be decrypted.
18:50So these are very lengthy
18:52and often very expensive investigations.
18:54I had someone talk to me
18:56and say that they estimate
18:58that it takes about a million dollars in investigation
19:01in order to take down one member of the Hells Angels.
19:04Obviously, this is just an estimate,
19:06but that gives us a sense of the scale of these investigations.
19:10Despite the millions of hours
19:12and the millions of dollars put in to Project Hobart,
19:16the charges are then withdrawn against Mr. Barletta.
19:20The charges are then withdrawn against Mr. Barletta,
19:25giving him some real credence now to the name Teflon Robb.
19:29The Hells Angels prove
19:31that they're not only just kings of the street.
19:34They can be the kings in the courtroom.
19:38So Barletta walks on all charges.
19:40He'll go back to running the gambling rackets.
19:43Some say the whole thing only increased his standing
19:46in the Hells Angels.
19:48So people really begin to question
19:51that in the war against the Hells Angels,
19:54who is winning?
20:00These people are openly engaging in a war.
20:02The war happens to take place on our streets.
20:04If you're lucky enough,
20:06you won't get hit by a fly-by bullet.
20:10Dirty Diaz was a member of the Niagara chapter
20:13of the Hells Angels.
20:15He was a collector in their sports gambling business.
20:23There were a lot of high-ranking Hells Angels,
20:26guys that are very close to Marty Robert,
20:29specifically Robb Barletta, a.k.a. Teflon Robb.
20:33He was one of those guys
20:35specifically Robb Barletta, a.k.a. Teflon Robb,
20:39that felt very close to Dirty Diaz.
20:44Dirty Diaz was a guy who made things easier
20:47to move drugs through the Toronto area.
20:49He wasn't a leader, but he was a very important piece.
20:53He was thought to be the bag man, the muscle,
20:56the money picker-upper for the Hells Angels.
20:59We were conducting investigations,
21:01and he was a target of the investigation.
21:04And during surveillance, we often observe other crimes
21:07being committed by members of organized crime.
21:10One day, there were a couple officers sitting outside a gym
21:14watching this man.
21:21Shortly after 11am, gunfire erupted in this parking lot.
21:25The shooting continued into Huff's boxing gym.
21:30Four men roll up in a car.
21:33The hit takes place.
21:35He's shot right inside the gym and just outside the door.
21:38Two gunmen came up and shot him six times at close range.
21:41A lot of people seem to die outside of gyms, I've noticed lately.
21:45He tried to run back in the gym and was yelling,
21:47called 911.
21:49It's kind of sad and ironic.
21:51Call 911, he's a biker.
21:53They hate police, but when you're about to die,
21:56that's who you want around.
21:5932-year-old Michael DeBatois-Schold,
22:02known to his friends as Diaz,
22:04was fatally shot in the parking lot of this busy strip plaza.
22:07Dirty Diaz was murdered in early 2019.
22:12That hit team had been dispatched from Montreal.
22:16The belief from some Hells Angels
22:19is that the Rizzutos didn't go through proper channels
22:22to get this problem resolved and decided just to act
22:25and kill this guy without any permission
22:28from the Hells Angels group,
22:30who the Rizzuto mob had been in business with for decades.
22:33He was shot as tensions went up
22:36between the Rizzutos and the Hells Angels gambling tensions,
22:39and so any time there's restructuring,
22:42there's going to be casualties.
22:45Police say his murder was a targeted killing,
22:48but they won't discuss a motive.
22:50We were there to prevent further violence
22:53to prevent further violence.
22:55In this case, we weren't able to.
23:01The car makes a getaway.
23:04They think they're going to get away with it,
23:06change cars, change clothes,
23:08never be caught, never be detected.
23:11Now, these four men don't know
23:14that the police force is on the person that they just shot.
23:19As a result of surveillance,
23:21during the investigation, Peel Regional Police
23:24investigated and laid homicide charges.
23:27It is very rare for a mob hit to be solved,
23:31and the Peel Police have done this in just over two days.
23:35This is... It's a record.
23:37And only by that sheer,
23:40unfortunate confluence of events for these four men
23:44and the sheer luck of the bag man being watched
23:47did all of this turn into a first-degree murder prosecution
23:51where three of the four men were convicted of first-degree murder.
23:56He was targeted for a reason, so we take that seriously.
24:00We take all organized crime activity seriously.
24:03I can say he is a well-entrenched member of that motorcycle gang.
24:07I defended one of the men who were in that car,
24:11the getaway driver.
24:13Investigators also say this blue Honda Civic
24:16which was found on fire a short distance away was the getaway car.
24:20I get asked everywhere I go and whatever street I walk on,
24:23how do you do what you do? How do you sleep at night?
24:26How do you defend people that you know are guilty?
24:28These are all really philosophical questions,
24:31but I sleep like a baby.
24:34It's never been stated for certain
24:38who put the contract out on Dirty Diaz's head.
24:42I believe through my sourcing that this was really the first salvo
24:46in the war that would become the conflict
24:51hitting the Hells Angels versus the Rizzuto mob.
24:59I think the reason he was killed
25:01was to cut in on the Hells Angel influence in that area.
25:07One of the theories is that it's the mafia
25:10hitting back at the Hells Angels for encroaching on their territory,
25:14which is illegal sports betting.
25:16That's a battle that's still being waged today.
25:19Since the murder outside the gym,
25:21it's almost like anything's up for grabs.
25:24It's almost like there is no real order,
25:27and so just grab what you can.
25:31You don't shoot and kill a full patch member of the Hells Angels lightly.
25:35You know the consequences.
25:37In this case, there's probably going to be retaliation.
25:50The Hells Angels are always looking to infiltrate law enforcement.
25:56And they do it not in an overt manner that I've seen.
26:01It's a soft approach.
26:04Organized crime can't flourish
26:07if there isn't corruption in the police and in politics.
26:12It came out on wiretaps in 2015.
26:16Leo Rizzuto on the wiretap says,
26:18what are we paying for?
26:20What do we pay them for?
26:22It was clear cut.
26:24I had informants saying that there's certain individuals on the payroll
26:27so did Vito Rizzuto.
26:29He said, there's dirty cops.
26:31He says, there's dirty cops.
26:33But the department doesn't want to hear.
26:38When there's a dirty cop in the mix,
26:41taking shortcuts, perhaps not following the rules,
26:44that has become catnip to criminal defense lawyers like me.
26:50Bribery isn't part of the landscape,
26:52more so in Quebec than there is through Canada.
26:55One of the things that gets me about this whole world
26:58is that people just accept that it happens.
27:00It's illegal, it's wrong,
27:02and you certainly don't tell your tourist board about it,
27:05but everybody knows it's true.
27:09There is a famous story of
27:12Mon Boucher walking with a young biker,
27:15a would-be biker,
27:17and pointing at a car and said,
27:19that's my pig.
27:21That's what they were calling police at the time.
27:23And he bragged about the fact
27:25that he had so many police in his pocket
27:28that he had paid off so many of them
27:30that they were almost immune to any kind of prosecution.
27:33But in Quebec, especially with the provincial police,
27:37a lot of them would look the other way.
27:40When you can find a high-powered and high-profile sergeant
27:44who, for lack of a better term, goes to the dark side,
27:48that is something that the dark side
27:50is willing to pay a very, very significant premium for.
27:55For police officers,
27:57it's a fine line between trust and temptation.
28:00Tonight, you'll meet some who resisted that temptation,
28:03and others who were accused, convicted,
28:06and jailed for crossing the line.
28:08How can organized crime exist without corruption?
28:13Someone giving you intel on the inside
28:16gives you a major edge over your enemy.
28:19You can see it in the convictions
28:25of senior police detectives like Benoit Roberge.
28:30Benoit Roberge was a senior Montreal police detective
28:34who'd been investigating the bikers for a long time.
28:37He was a source for a lot of us boat bikers.
28:41He had access to all of the events,
28:44the thoughts, the prosecutions, the investigations
28:47of Hells Angels and other outlaw biker gangs.
28:50One of the important police officers, Benoit Roberge,
28:53who had led the biker investigations
28:56against Maurice Montmouchet,
28:58it will later turn out, several years later,
29:01that he will fall into the pay of the Hells Angels.
29:05Benoit Roberge is accused of selling sensitive information
29:09to the very people he once investigated.
29:12He got arrested because he was about to sell police information.
29:16To organize crime, and he got caught, which is bad.
29:20He wasn't working alone. It's impossible.
29:23He must have had other individuals with him.
29:25The news shocked the province.
29:28How could a star cop of all people turn to the dark side?
29:32Benoit Roberge was the good guy.
29:35Instead of buying information from the Hells Hitman,
29:38Roberge was selling him information.
29:41Their roles had been reversed.
29:43It was Roberge who was the snitch.
29:46It's all about the money, right?
29:48So, if you have the right price...
29:50If the Hells Angels could corrupt somebody like Benoit Roberge,
29:55it just shows the power that they have,
29:57the power of organized crime.
29:59The public is left wondering, how far does this go?
30:03And what I mean by that is, are there other people doing this
30:06that simply haven't been caught?
30:08Corruption plays an invaluable role
30:11in the overall success of the Hells Angels.
30:14And Marty Robert, you can't operate a local criminal organization
30:19without connections, ties, links into law enforcement,
30:24into the judiciary.
30:26It would be impossible.
30:30They have moles.
30:32They have dirty cops that are on the take.
30:36They've got tipsters.
30:38And I think it runs the gamut from, you know, local corruption
30:41to bigger national corruption.
30:53Marty Robert, very smart man.
30:56Very smart. Totally different from Mon Boucher.
30:59Definitely a businessman.
31:01And this is the way the new wave of the Hells Angels is going.
31:06Since they entered Canada in the 70s,
31:09the Hells Angels have always played second fiddle to the Razudos.
31:13And they've always been beholden to someone above them.
31:19Marty Robert has the vision that the Hells Angels
31:22should be the ones that are pulling all the strings,
31:25the ones that have final say on everything,
31:30and that, logistically, he thought he could pull it off.
31:37But Marty couldn't do this alone, so he needs help.
31:41And he goes and brings in Rob Barletta.
31:46Essentially, Robert Barletta, he's been brought into the big leagues.
31:49He started in London, worked his way up to Niagara,
31:52and now he's in the Montreal chapter of the Hells Angels.
31:56Marty trusts Rob Barletta more than most in his Hells Angel kingdom.
32:02He's somebody that Marty identified as a MVP-type person,
32:09that he needed to be by his side.
32:12The move that the Hells Angels brass decided on
32:16to transfer Rob Barletta to Montreal was a major development.
32:22He's fearless, and he's ferocious, and he's intelligent.
32:25And that's a pretty intoxicating mix.
32:30Meanwhile, Leonardo Rizzuto is living on borrowed time.
32:36He's in an incredibly precarious position.
32:41Rizzuto was reportedly shot at around six times
32:44from someone in a moving vehicle as he drove on Highway 440.
32:48He managed to continue driving for about two kilometers.
32:51You're Leonardo Rizzuto.
32:54One of your brothers is killed. Your grandfather is killed.
32:57Your dad serves time in jail and then comes back and dies.
33:02You've got assassin's bullets coming through your high-end car.
33:11The gunshots were following him.
33:14He eventually came to a stop in a funeral home parking lot,
33:19which is kind of eerie, and he had been shot in the foot
33:22but had survived the attempt on his life.
33:252023 was marked with multiple daytime mob-related shootings
33:29in Montreal targeting prominent figures in organized crime.
33:33And the law enforcement went, like, zero to 1,000.
33:38And then at some point in 2023,
33:41law enforcement showed up at Marty Robert's house
33:44to execute a search warrant, and he wasn't there.
33:47And my sources are telling me Marty was so kind of carefree
33:53that he decided to go to Disney World.
34:01That, you know, he took his family
34:03and went to Disney World and Epcot Center in Orlando,
34:06and that he possibly took meetings
34:09with American Hells Angels at this vacation.
34:14There was a lot of worry amongst American Hells Angels
34:18in the last couple years
34:20that the Hells Angels becoming adversarial with the Rizzuto mob
34:25was going to blow back on the American Hells Angels chapters
34:30that are doing current business with Italian mafia families.
34:34Now, what my sources are saying
34:36is that Marty Robert and Walter Stadnick,
34:39they don't care what the United States Hells Angels bosses are saying.
34:43I think the Hells Angels are at their peak of power right now.
34:56The Hells Angels have expanded worldwide.
35:03They are in most every continent,
35:06and they are in dozens and dozens and dozens of countries.
35:11If Mon Boucher was alive today
35:13and he saw the state of the Hells Angels,
35:15I'd say he would look at himself,
35:17he'd cross his arms like he always did
35:19and say, I did a pretty good job.
35:21The Hells Angels, in my view, continue to be resilient,
35:26and they're growing worldwide.
35:31When you're talking about biker clubs in the United States,
35:35particularly the Hells Angels and the Outlaws,
35:38when RICO was first really being utilized by the federal government,
35:43it was almost a natural pivot for them to look north,
35:46realizing that the RICO statute didn't exist across the board.
35:55So guys like Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels
35:58could stake a claim for territory in Canada,
36:02push their business forward by being in Canada,
36:05and not have to deal with the ramifications of the RICO Act.
36:09It was a win-win for everybody.
36:11Now, 40 years later, look where we are.
36:13The proof is in the pudding.
36:16The Hells Angels are a pure American creation and product.
36:20And the Hells Angels are the only organized crime group
36:24that America gave to the world.
36:26And they've expanded.
36:28Five continents, 62 countries, 470 countries.
36:34475 chapters.
36:36You know, I mean, this is the McDonald's of organized crime.
36:40Certainly their organization is benefiting
36:42from the money that's being made in the drug trade,
36:44from, you know, importing and exporting the drugs
36:47that are not only wreaking havoc here,
36:49but also now in other places,
36:51like Australia, New Zealand, and, you know, the South Pacific.
36:55Right from the time they started, 50 or so years ago,
36:58the goal was to run the trade in North America.
37:01But now you go further.
37:03There are Iranian-sponsored hits,
37:06where Canadian and U.S. hitmen are being hired
37:09by Iranian people who run the drug trade.
37:12Earlier this year, there was a case.
37:14A member of the Hells Angels and an associate
37:17were charged in a murder-for-hire plot
37:19in which a U.S. indictment said they were hired
37:22to kill Iranian dissidents living in the United States.
37:25U.S. officials allege Zindashti recruited Damian Patrick Ryan,
37:29a member of the Hells Angels in B.C.,
37:32and Ryan recruited Adam Richard Pearson,
37:35another Hells Angels member, to carry out the attack.
37:38We're talking very scary stuff.
37:40Just look at the indictment from the U.S. government
37:42that alleges that the hit involved
37:44separating this man's head from his torso.
37:46That's not just a hit.
37:48That's essentially decapitation.
37:50So what this case shows is that the Hells Angels
37:53have become kind of the go-to brand for global crime, right?
37:57When you have an Islamic theocracy
37:59looking to get a job done in North America,
38:01you're going to the Hells Angels
38:02because of that global brand awareness.
38:07I think we live in a different world.
38:10I think the violence will increase.
38:14There will be further carnage.
38:24One of the big obstacles for Marty Robert
38:27and his desire to continue to grow the Hells Angels
38:30are these independent groups,
38:33younger kids that maybe don't really understand
38:38what they're getting themselves into.
38:40They don't understand history.
38:41They don't understand context.
38:43So I don't think the ending's going to be very pretty.
38:50Somebody who was born in the year 2000
38:52and is 24 years old today
38:54has no idea who the Hells Angels were.
38:57And a lot of these newly arrived immigrants,
38:59they grew up in either South America or the Middle East.
39:02They grew up with a machine gun at the age of eight.
39:05You think they're scared of somebody
39:07that says, I'm part of the Hells Angels?
39:09No.
39:12Because of the massive immigration waves
39:15that happened over the past decades,
39:17you have different types of ethnicity
39:19who all want their little piece of a pie,
39:22whatever that may be.
39:24According to sources, the Hells used back channels
39:27to tell police they should take action against the BFM gang
39:30or things could get even uglier.
39:33So the Blood Family Mafia and its leader,
39:36David Icepick Turmell,
39:38are actually probably Marty Robert
39:41and the Hells Angels' biggest obstacle,
39:43biggest barrier to achieve their ultimate goal.
39:46So Mel and his gang are trying to scare people
39:49from fighting against them
39:50and to scare people away from working with the Hells.
39:54Someone like an Icepick Turmell,
39:56who's only 27 years old
39:58and was in diapers
40:00when the great Quebec biker war was popping off,
40:04had the wherewithal and the charisma
40:08and, frankly, the balls
40:09to go around to every single street gang in Quebec City,
40:13most of these guys being older than him,
40:15most of these guys being of different ethnicities, races,
40:18some of them not speaking his own language,
40:20and he was able to rally the troops,
40:22circle the wagons,
40:23and consolidate the entire street gang underworld of Quebec City
40:28against the Hells Angels in less than a year.
40:31You need to tell that story
40:32to get to the point of why people are cutting off fingers.
40:36A 28-year-old man from Saguenay,
40:38200 kilometers north of Quebec City,
40:40was found right here in Montreal's Rosemont overnight
40:44with his finger and toe cut off
40:46after a possible kidnapping linked to drug trafficking.
40:49So I think we have a situation
40:52where the Blood Family Mafia
40:54represents the 2020s underworld.
40:57The modern-day gangland culture
41:00is the Blood Family Mafia.
41:03According to sources,
41:04the BFM gang is led by Dave Thurmell.
41:07He's gone after the Hells
41:08after refusing to pay a 10% tax on drug sales
41:12in Hells-controlled territory.
41:15The main point of contention
41:18in the Blood Family Mafia's war
41:20with the Hells Angels
41:22was a rebuffing of the traditional 10% tax
41:27that the Hells Angels in Quebec City
41:29had always placed on the street gangs
41:32and the drug crews.
41:34Ice-Pick Thurmell and the Blood Family Mafia
41:37felt that they were somehow absolved
41:41or not eligible to have to pay the tax.
41:45And when it was told to them that,
41:48no, you owe 10% of your take,
41:51that's what sparked this conflict.
41:55Normally, gangs don't torture like this,
41:57severing body parts.
41:59It's not very frequent in Quebec,
42:00but we see with some of the street gangs in Quebec City,
42:03that's what they do.
42:04They also film it.
42:06The top Quebec City rappers
42:09were all affiliated with Blood Family Mafia
42:12these last couple years.
42:14And if you watch the videos of these rap artists,
42:19you can see Ice-Pick Thurmell,
42:21and you can see other members of his crew.
42:26The Blood Family Mafia was using some of these music videos
42:29to shit-talk the Hells Angels
42:31and let everybody know in Quebec City
42:33that the Blood Family Mafia wasn't just about rap.
42:36It was also about rap.
42:38They were about to rape the Hells Angels.
42:41And they were rapping about rap.
42:43They were rapping about rap.
42:45They were rapping about rap.
42:47And that's what we're going to be talking about today.
42:50A little bit about the music videos.
42:52Angels and let everybody know in Quebec City, the Blood Family Mafia, even though they're
42:56a bunch of 20-something millennials, they don't fear the big bad Hells Angels.
43:00In fact, they're going to go in front of a camera and flash gang signs and tell everybody
43:05that we're going to war with them and we're going to win.
43:10I don't believe the Blood Family Mafia, when they decided to go to war with the Quebec
43:16City Hells Angels, completely understood who Marty Robert was and that just because
43:23you were declaring war on the Quebec City Hells Angels, I don't know if they realized
43:29that that meant they were declaring war on the Hells Angels empire, period.
43:38Organized crime will look like out there boys compared to these new groups coming up.
43:42Trust me, it's going to be a mayhem.
43:46It's going to be a mayhem.