Corrupt Abbotsford cop Christopher Nicholson walks

Christopher Nicholson

A former Abbotsford cop convicted of breach of trust in 2017 arranged for drugs to be trafficked at a target’s home in order to include that information in an application for a search warrant. The case initially resulted in the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner saying it was investigating 17 other Abbotsford cops for 148 cases of misconduct. The number was later reduced to four pigs and 15 allegations. Nicholson was charged with six counts of obstructing justice, three counts of breach of trust and one count of unsafe storage of a firearm.

Nicholson pleaded guilty to one breach of trust charge in late 2017, and was sentenced to a 17-month conditional sentence. The remaining charges were stayed.

Nicholson was fired for four violations under the Police Act: discreditable conduct, corrupt practice, public trust offence and improper use or care of firearms.

Major HA bust in Quebec - update

Martin "Gros Gam" Gamache.

Cops have broken into a dozen homes, including those of some high profile members of the Hells Angels of the Quebec chapter. The cops notably went to visit Marc "Marco" Roberge and Martin "Gros Gam" Gamache. Gamache's colours are gonzo. Some 30 HA and associates have been charged so far.

Cops are making a series of raids in connection with the drug underworld in Quebec City, Beauce, Portneuf, Gatineau and Montreal. Drug networks in various regions are controlled by the Hells Angels. Quebec’s organized crime suppression squad (ENRCO) said that about 20 arrests are planned for today. Four kg of cocaine, 130k meth tablets, $400k in cash, eight firearms - including five handguns - and an electric pulse pistol, silencers and ammunition has been seized.

The investigation is dubbed Operation Palefroi (walking or parade horse).

Belgium HA and Vakeso Drom not friends

Cops in Belgium simultaneously carried out five searches. It relates to an attempted shooting of an HA in June by a member of Vakeso Drom MC. The shooter was settling a score in the context of a territorial war. Vakeso Drom are closely associated to the Bandidos.

Phoebe Greenberg $15m civil lawsuit exposes HA connections

Phoebe Greenberg

A $15m lawsuit filed by Phoebe Greenberg against her former assistant Sandra Testa is more than it appears. Phoebe Greenberg is heiress and shareholder of the Minto Empire, a real estate company listed on the TSE with a portfolio of over $ 2.5b. Testa defends herself by swearing her boss authorized all expenses. She describes Greenberg as unaware of the cost of her luxurious lifestyle, who relied on 'servants' to pay her extravagant expenses. Greenberg is said to spend a fortune for continuous plastic surgery.

Cops recently discovered two stolen paintings of Riopelle in his residence.

One of the beneficiaries of Greenberg cash was Carlo Farruggia, known for his ties to the Italian Mafia and HA. Farruggia is linked to mafioso Antonio Pietrantonio. In 1994, Farruggia was intercepted on his way to HA Richard Vallee with $122k in cash. Farruggia avoided charges, but when Vallée was tried for murder, the prosecution linked the money to cocaine trafficking. Cops took Farruggia’s fingerprints from a bag containing explosives. Farruggia also had the key to a car in which a handgun and a detonator identical to the one used to kill a witness was found. Vallee was extradited to the US in 2006. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Richard Vallee

Farruggia wasn't the only hand. Vanessa Purdy, a former employee, is the daughter of the late Jerry Purdy, one of the strong men of the Irish underworld in Montreal. She is the sister of Sean Purdy, a man with high level connections to organized crime.

A similar $5m lawsuit against former employee Giuseppina “Penny” Mancuso was settled. Mancuso was paid $400k per year, plus $200k for beauty care and an allowance of $100k for her children’s schooling. Apparently this was cause to steal more.Penny Mancuso, Phoebe Greenberg

Phoebe Greenberg on a trip to Europe with Nabil Salaheddine and Carlo Farruggia.

Mitchell Wesley Carlson fingered as HA - 'Boogaloo Bois'

The FBI has pieced together the involvement of members of a far right-wing sect calling themselves the 'Boogaloo Bois' in street violence in Minneapolis. 'Boogaloo' refers to the group’s belief in an impending civil war in the U.S., which its members hope to forment. The attack on the police precinct office with Molotov cocktails is their work. Two have been charged with that arson. Texas man Ivan Hunter, a 'Boogaloo Bois' fired 13 rounds from an AK-47-style rifle through the glass doors and windows of the precinct office while people were inside.

Ivan Harrison Hunter, Benjamin Ryan Teeter.

'Umbrella Man' is Mitchell Wesley Carlson. He is a full patch member of the Hell's Angels and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys. See ----->White Power HA bikers make waves in Stillwater

32-year-old Carlson has not been charged, yet. He took part in a June incident in Stillwater and was in his colours when he and others verbally harassed a Muslim woman. This PR is all bad for the club. This meatbag will be out in bad standing if he's lucky.

Chinese money brokers laundering cartel cash

Chinese “money brokers” have emerged as partners for Latin American drug cartels. The recent trial of a Chinese businessman convicted of laundering cartel drug money shows how it's done. A cartel wants it's drug cash. It contacts a local Chinese money broker. Terms and an amount are agreed upon. The broker then sends, 1) a code word, 2) the number of a U.S. burner phone, and 3) the unique serial number of an authentic $1 bill. The crime group shares those details with a drug dealer in the US, who calls the burner phone and identifies himself with the code word. He arranges to meet a U.S.-based money courier working for the Chinese broker. The courier hands over the $1 bill with the unique serial number. When it's verified, the dealer hands over the cash, keeping the bill as a receipt.

The courier takes the cash to a U.S. based Chinese merchant who has a bank account in China. The merchant performs a currency swap known as a “mirror transaction.” Chinese yuan flows from his Chinese bank account to the money broker’s Chinese account. The drug cash is now sitting in a Chinese bank, outside the view of the US.

The broker has two options to send it on. Option 1 is to do another “mirror transaction.” The yuan is transferred from the money broker’s Chinese account to the Chinese bank account of a cartel business. Pesos go to the money broker and that cash goes to the cartel. The second option is to buy consumer goods in China and export them. The goods are sold, and the proceeds flow to the cartel.

Mobster Gregory Scarpa Jr given compassionate release

Brooklyn mafia figure Gregory Scarpa Jr, 69, was serving a 40-year prison term for his role in several killings in the 1980s. He became a jailhouse informant and has been granted a compassionate release by a federal judge. Once a top-ranked member of the Colombo family, he is said to be seriously ill. During his incarceration, he has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Doctors removed a tumor that left a hole in his throat. Scarpa also had his salivary glands removed, which left him in a state where he ‘regularly chokes’ on his food. Scarpa Jr is the son of the late Gregory Scarpa, a former Colombo crime family hit man who earned the nickname 'The Grim Reaper.' He died in prison in 1994 after contracting HIV.

‘Hot tub’ meth dealer Jared Irving on the lam no more

Winnipeg's biker enforcement unit has been looking for Jared Irving, 35, since he failed to appear for sentencing in August 2019. Irving was arrested in January 2018 after Winnipeg police raided his home seizing 1.4 kg of meth. At the time, Irving was dumping his stash into a hot tub. Also seized was a .38 calibre handgun and ammunition. Irving was convicted of possession of meth for the purpose of trafficking and two counts of possession of a prohibited firearm and ammunition.

Irving fled to Kelowna where he was busted Oct 27.

Gangster Jason Pikula-Carroll cheers fatal shot - cries at sentencing

Jason Pikula-Carroll, 25, cheered after his associate shot and killed Canberra artist Eden Waugh during a 2016 home invasion. He has been sentenced to 30 years in jail. Eden Waugh was killed because his attackers feared he had spoken to police about an earlier home invasion. As the pair tried to beat down the front door, Peter Forster-Jones fired a shotgun slug through it, hitting Waugh in the chest and killing him. Pikula-Carroll pleaded guilty to the killing and cried like a biatch while reading an apology to Waugh's parents. Waugh's father David said the murder robbed him of a kind and loving son.

"Eden was not without some faults but his underlying characteristics were his kindness and gentleness."

The two gangsters stepped over a dying Waugh to strip his apartment. In a triple-0 call from the attack, Pikula-Carroll could be heard cheering "gangster" after the fatal shot was fired. Jason Pikula-Carroll was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a non-parole period of 18 years for murder, aggravated robbery and assault. He will be eligible for parole in 2037.

Hitman Joubens Jeff Theus pulls a year for Rizzuto arson

Joubens Jeff Theus is serving a life sentence for a botched hit of an innocent man. Theus was supposed to kill Antonio 'Tony' Vanelli, a man with ties to the Montreal Mafia. Instead of being at the Hillside Café, Vanelli was attending the funeral of Rocco Sollecito.

Theus gunned down Angelo D'Onofrio in a case of mistaken identity.

Ebamba Ndutu Lufiau, 42, was Theus’s accomplice in both the homicide and the arson fire at the Rizzuto funeral home. He is serving a five-year prison term for acting as a getaway driver after D’Onofrio was killed and for his role in the arson. Three other men convicted in the case involving the arson were previously sentenced to prison terms that ranged between 18 and 23 months.