Joe Amato Sr off to jail, Jr to follow

Joseph Amato Jr. and Joseph Amato Sr.

Joseph Amato Sr., 62, who earlier this year pleaded guilty to shaking down two and stalking his girlfriend with a GPS tracking device, was given little sympathy by a federal judge, who called the defendant’s attributes “almost as bad as they can possibly be.” It's nearly 6 years in the slammer for the wiseguy. Jr gets sentenced later this month.

Joey Amato, 62.

The New York City bus system had a problem when mechanics found a GPS tracker during maintenance in Nov 2016. The Staten Island depot was evacuated and explosives experts were called in to make sure it wasn’t a small bomb. The undercarriage of every bus in the five boroughs was searched using mirrors on metal poles. The tracker came from an unlikely source, Colombo capo Joseph Amato Sr. who had reported it lost. Amato had been keeping tabs on his girlfriend by secretly sticking the GPS on her car. The capo and his son took a pair of plea deals in the case that netted nearly a dozen other Colombo mobsters and associates.

Amato pleaded guilty to racketeering and stalking. He is expected to be sentenced to five to seven years, avoiding a 20 year stretch.

Soldiers Philip Lombardo and Dominick Ricigliano were charged.

The capo sent the woman emails bragging about his influence on Staten Island. One said, “This is my island. Not yours. I have the eyes all over.” In another, Amato — who in 1995 was convicted in the shooting of a 15-year-old witness, boasted that “I’m called a MAN’S MAN!!!” Events eventually snared 20 — including 11 members and associates of the Colombo crime family. They were busted on charges including racketeering, loansharking and extortion. Wiretaps on the phones of Amato, his son Joseph Amato Jr. and Colombo soldier Thomas Scorcia resulted in “thousands of intercepted phone calls and text messages.”

Joseph Amato Jr.

Cops on the hunt for HA boss Ramin Yektaparast - Update

A big rocker raid in Germany in September, 2021 resulted in cops hunting for Ramin Yektaparast. He is the boss of the Mönchengladbach charter. Yektaparast, 33, was born in Germany with Iranian roots. He is wanted worldwide for murdering Kai M., 32, using a sub-machine gun and then dumping the dismembered body in the Rhine river in the German city of Duisburg in February 2014. His victim was found piece by piece with the cops first recovering his arms, then legs, then his torso and eventually his head. Yektaparast began wearing a 'filthy few' patch after the killing.

Cops say Yektaparast has fled to Iran. The rocker's Instagram profile suggests that he is there. The country has no extradition treaty with Germany. Ramin Yektaparast used to be with the Bandidos, defected to the Hells Angels in 2012 and then founded the charter in Mönchengladbach.

Calgary millionaire chock full of HAMC fear - perjury trial

Calgary millionaire Ken Carter testified he feared his former girlfriend during their lengthy custody battle. He claims she was connected to the HAMC and Red Scorpions. He is on trial for perjury. Carter and former Calgary cop Steve Walton were earlier convicted of criminal harassment. Carter paid Walton to hire current and former members of the Calgary Police Service to conduct intense surveillance on Akele Taylor. They were all convicted of criminal harassment and breach of trust. Carter was sentenced to three years for orchestrating the harassment campaign, which lasted months. He is appealing.

Steve Walton was sentenced to 3 years, wife Heather Walton 15 months of house arrest.

Walton, Cst. Bryan Morton, Sgt. Bradford McNish, along with Anthony Braile were convicted. McNish was sentenced to six months in jail, while Morton was handed 30 months. Braile, who blew the whistle, was handed a 3 month term, served on weekends. Also busted was Walton’s wife, Heather Walton, who worked as a civilian employee with the CPS. Police databases were accessed hundreds of times to extract private information. Cops even followed Akele Taylor while on duty.

Bryan Morton, Brad McNish

The appeal court found the disgraced pigs “used police time and resources in a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a Calgary woman and accepted payment for doing so.”

Ruja Ignatova - the 'Ponzi Queen'

Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen.

Ruja Ignatova is a Bulgarian convicted fraudster. She is best known as the founder of Ponzi scheme OneCoin in 2014, described as "one of the biggest scams in history". She has been on the run since 2017. In early 2019 she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

In June 2016 the then 36-year-old Ruja, renowned for her expensive dresses and red lipstick, walked on stage at Wembley Arena in front of adoring fans. She told the cheering crowd that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency. OneCoin, Ruja spewed, was the Bitcoin Killer. "In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin any more!" she shouted. The truth was OneCoin wasn't just a fake cryptocurrency, it was a classic pyramid scheme, with the fake coin as its product. The company claimed to have more than 3 million members worldwide.

OneCoin generated some 3.4b euros ($4b) in revenue from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the third quarter of 2016, but had zero value. The location of Ruja Ignatova remains a mystery.

Aneta Siedlecka - Horse steroids

Siedlecka claimed to be a “Master Personal Trainer” and “Holistic Transformational Health & Wellness Coach” on Instagram.

Bikini model and former personal trainer Aneta Maria Siedlecka, 42, from the Gold Coast was busted in 2017 for possession of testosterone and a horse drug that mimics steroids. She admitted possession of more than 50g of testosterone and possession of clenbuterol. Clenbuterol is a fat-burning and muscle-building anabolic agent.

Wales crackhead off to jail

Alan Daniels, 43, was high on cocaine as he raced through rush-hour streets at 70mph in an attempt to get away from pursuing cops. He has more than 100 convictions, including 17 for driving while disqualified. Sending Daniels to prison, a judge described his driving on the day in question as "appalling" and he "should not have been in charge of a hoop and stick, never mind a car".

Karim Kouribibe, Zone 43 gangster attempts escape

Zone 43 gangster Karim Kouribibe was escorted by two jail guards for a medical exam. He tried to escape by disarming a guard.

The violence in the streets of Montreal linked to street gangs is getting so bad that cops met with an influential Mafioso from the Rizzuto clan to incite him to bring calm. The Rivière-des-Prairies sector has become a war zone.

Minnesota HA Schmitz goes away a long time

Justin Steven Schmitz, 39, a full patch of the Minneapolis HAMC, sold multiple pounds of meth to an undercover cop for around $6k per pound. After pleading guilty in Aug 2020 to meth distribution, Schmitz split from his treatment center and fled to California.

He was busted three months later. Now it's 168 months in jail followed by five years of supervised release.

Mexican Gangster Rapper ‘El Millonario’ busted

Suárez is a pioneer of Rap Malandro, the Mexican version of gangster rap.

Cops say César Suárez, aka Millonario, was involved in the death of a 29-year-old man on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

HA Emery 'Pit' Martin = 7.5 years

Emery 'Pit' Martin is off to the big house for 7.5 years after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking and acting in the benefit of a criminal organization. He is a senior HA in New Brunswick. Martin, 61, was arrested June 25, 2018 and charged with 10 sweeping drug related offences. 15 other people were arrested in Operation J-Thunder, targeting the sale of cocaine in northern New Brunswick. Drugs came from the all powerful Quebec Hells Angels.

Record sailboat cocaine haul - 5.2 tonnes

Portuguese and Spanish cops have seized 5.2 tonnes of cocaine from a sailboat on the high seas and arrested three. It is Portugal's largest drug bust in 15 years and a world-record haul from a sailboat.

Italian cop raid nets dormice—mafia delicacy

Italian cops found a cache of 235 frozen dormice, which are a protected species in Italy. They also found more in cages being fattened up for slaughter. The creatures are a favorite of the ’Ndrangheta, whose members believe eating them during important meetings brings wisdom. They are also on the menu when warring clans make peace. Dormice were widely consumed in ancient Rome, often stuffed with ground pork and pine nuts.

The dormouse population is in rapid decline both in number and range. Many species are extinct. Their habitat tends to be old woodland, which is also in decline.

Cocaine and illegal timber in Brazil's Amazon

Over 70% of logging in the northern state of Pará between August 2017 and July 2018 was illegal according to a study. Environmental crime is a low risk means of income for drug traffickers, with timber shipments being used to conceal drugs destined for foreign markets.

In total, the seizures amounted to nearly nine tons.

At least 16 major seizures of cocaine between 2017 and 2021 came when cocaine was concealed within shipments of timber for export.

Pagans Boss Richter pleads guilty = 33 months

Richter agreed to a plea deal.

Pagans MC national president Keith “Conan” Richter, 62, pleaded guilty to a gun charge.

See ---->‘Hellboy’ earns 4 years

The charge against Richter came after cops were tipped off by a rat that Richter had a loaded Ruger P345 during a party for the club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Convicted felons cannot carry a gun.

HA Gregory Slewidge murdered - Update VI

OPP have released information on the murder of HA Greg Slewidge and are offering a $50k reward for information leading to an arrest. Shortly before he was brutally beaten to death, a dark-coloured sedan was seen entering the facility at 1864 Scotch Corners Rd. Slewidge had turned the building into a licensed grow op. There have been no arrests in the murder of full patch Gregory Slewidge.

The OPP are investigating the murder of Gregory Slewidge, 39, a member of the Hells Angels in Beckwith Township, Ottawa. Slewidge was found beaten to death in a home at 1864 Scotch Corners Rd. around 10:30 a.m.

#OPP is offering $50,000 to anyone with info leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for Greg Slewidge’s murder. If you have any info, please call the dedicated tipline 1 844 478-5656 or call Crime Stoppers 1 800 222-8477 if you wish to remain anonymous. pic.twitter.com/nl4Mfur857 — OPP East Region (@OPP_ER) October 14, 2021

The Hells Angels Nomads in Ottawa made their comeback in 2018 after violent in-fighting in the summer of 2016. For 20 years the Sherbrooke Hells Angels enjoyed huge profits from drug sales in Ottawa and Sudbury. The Nomads expanded there after arrests in 2009 decimated the Quebec HA. Drug revenue dwindled as the Nomads paid no tax. There would be consequences. On April 16, 2016 Ontario Nomads vice-president Phil Boudreault was shot off his bike in Lachute. He is said to be in a wheelchair. In August Martin Bernatchez, president, was shot three times in Sherbrooke. According to cops it was Ontario Nomads who broke club rules. When this happens the club doesn't hestitate in eliminating the problem. Boudreault and Bernatchez in better days.

See ----->HST = 'Hells Sales Tax'
See ----->Martin Bernatchez shot at campground/trailer park in Granby
See ----->Hells Angels Nomads make return to Ottawa

Surrey police chief Norm Lipinski = $21,943 in overtime, so far

Oinker Norm Lipinski has hit the jackpot.

Surrey’s incoming swine chief Norm Lipinski is drawing fire for the $21,943 in overtime he's booked in less than 8 months. The new piggy boss has a base salary of $285k. Lipinski has billed taxpayers for about 160 extra hours, or close to five hours per week for his valuable services. The overtime revelation came from a freedom of information request. Had that not happened taxpayers would still be ignorant. Surrey Coun. Brenda Locke called the overtime payments to Lipinski “shameful” and “ridiculous.” Former West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed expressed his own shock at the overtime bill. “It is unheard of in the police community that a chief or any executive officer gets paid overtime. The practice is they keep a book and use that as time off.”

Surrey estimated the new piggy force would cost $45m but that figure rose to $63.7m. The final bill will be far higher and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that larceny is the problem. Opponents of Norm Lipinski (2 elderly ladies from "Keep the RCMP in Surrey") learned he uses a private email while doing public business.

They were threatened with a lawsuit on Aug 18, 2021. The cease and desist letter from Keri Bennett at Roper Greyell accused them of “unlawfully use and distribute [Lipinski’s] personal email address.”

Lipinski, while Deputy Chief on the Delta Police, hired a public relations firm for $43,666.88 of public money to “defend” the actions of Chief Neil Dubord’s wife on Centennial Beach on June 6, 2020. Lorraine Dubord was investigated for possible assault and threats after the incident, when she sprayed Kiran Sidhu with a hose.