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US sanctions Sinaloa Cartel associates for alleged money laundering

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/article657339.html

One of the Hells Angels who took part in the notorious slaughter of five of the biker gang’s members in the Eastern Townships nearly four decades ago spent a few months behind bars following his arrest after he was badly injured in a collision last October. In a decision made on Friday, the Parole Board of Canada reinstated Jacques Pelletier’s full parole. The 69-year-old former Hells Angel is serving the life sentence he received in 1986 for his role in the first-degree murders of fellow gang members in Lennoxville, carried out inside what was then a bunker used by the gang’s Sherbrooke chapter. The slaughter, which came to be known as the Lennoxville Purge, revealed to Quebec the level of violence the gang was capable of. The ambush was planned by leaders of the Hells Angels based in Quebec who felt the gang’s Laval chapter had become undisciplined when it came to drug trafficking and that this caused problems with other criminal organizations, including the West End Gang, who supplied them with drugs like cocaine. On March 24, 1985, five Laval members were shot to death after they were summoned to a Hells Angels clubhouse in Lennoxville, just outside Sherbrooke. Several Hells Angels were present that day and played a role in the slaughter, but only four — including Pelletier — were convicted of first-degree murder and received life sentences. Pelletier was granted full parole in 2013, but the release was suspended five times since for different reasons. For example, in October 2017 he was returned to a penitentiary after police noticed his motorcycle parked outside a strip bar frequented by known criminals. Most recently, his parole was suspended following a collision on Oct. 4. During Pelletier’s hearing on Friday, the parole board members who heard his case were presented with different versions of what actually occurred, including Pelletier’s, and determined they did not have enough information to keep him inside the federal penitentiary where he spent the past three months. According to a written summary of the decision made last week, Pelletier’s parole was suspended following a collision with another vehicle on Oct. 4 and after he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test. “New criminal charges for impaired driving and refusal (to submit to a test) are expected to be filed against you (soon). At the start of the hearing, your parole officer indicated that the file was submitted to a prosecutor on Nov. 14, 2024. However, your lawyer specified that he had taken several steps since that date and that the file was still not submitted,” the parole board wrote. “During your post-suspension interview, you mentioned that you had three beers at home and ate around 4 p.m. You then took to the road alone on a motorcycle, not believing that you had exceeded the permitted alcohol limit considering your weight.” Pelletier also told the parole board that he was cut off by a car that caused the collision and that he refused to do the breathalyzer test because he felt nauseous. He also said he agreed to have a sample of his blood tested and that it indicated he was under the legal blood/alcohol limit. Pelletier ended up staying in a hospital for three days following the collision. “The police version differs from your version of the facts. Indeed, it is reported that you were involved in an accident where the driver of the other vehicle was intoxicated. Upon their arrival on the scene of the accident, the police had sufficient reason to believe that you were intoxicated,” the parole board wrote while noting the police allege Pelletier did not agree to have a sample of his blood tested. The board determined that, based on the different versions of what happened in October, “it does not have any reliable and convincing information that your behaviour on Oct. 4, 2024 violated any of your special conditions nor that you have committed an offence or adopted behaviour related to your cycle of delinquency.” As part of the conditions imposed on his new release, Pelletier is not allowed to be in an establishment where the main source of revenue is alcohol and he is not allowed to associate with people who he knows or suspects are involved in criminal activity.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/...xe-sur-la-contrebande-au-penitencier.php

Soon to be released from office Hells Angels Claude Gauthier allegedly imposed a tax on contraband at the penitentiary

Are we 100% sure that Joe Gallo was made ?

I've never seen much stuff about his induction and made or not, he had enough power to run his crew so I always thought it didn't really matter.

THE BANK JOB (2008)

Martine Love (Saffron Burrows), former model and sometimes drug dealer, brings to her one-time lover Terry Leather (Jason Stratham), a plan to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank whose alarm system is off line for repairs. She doesn't tell him that she's being blackmailed by MI5 (o r6?) to retrieve compromising photos of Princess Margaret from one of the boxes. Terry puts together several amateur, low-level villains to tunnel into the vault. They score millions in cash and jewels--and critical stuff belonging to a pornography titan with police on his payroll, a bordello owner with politico clients and a black militant drug dealer---all of whom will stop at nothing to retrieve their valuables. Lots of moving parts, but director Roger Donaldson keeps them humming in synch, so you never lose track of the connections. The heist is absorbing. This film is based on a real life British heist. Very entertaining.

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You are right, they call any gang a Mafia gang, or Mafia type gang. It's been done a long time. I look at an other of the European crime stories like this, and the common denominator is Arab groups.

It seems that the place is doing great, which means haters will ge mad, and the FBI will go after him for anything they can pin on him,

A review form The CIitybuzz podcast out of Philly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORg5hrXrqM