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Gangland Undercover is a Canadian-American fact-based drama television series written and created by Executive Producer Stephen Kemp and co-writer Noel Baker. It was inspired by the story of Charles Falco [1] a former ATF confidential informant (CI) who infiltrated an outlaw motorcycle club.
In order to bolster the club's ranks, he also recruited members of street gangs into the club, much to the disgust of the old school bikers. [4] He was voted out of the club on August 30, 2008, during a meeting in Vernon, California, due to the membership believing that he was stealing from the club and provoking a war with the Mexican Mafia ...
The Mongols Motorcycle Club was formed in Montebello, California on December 5, 1969. [2] The club had ten founding members, the majority of whom were Vietnam veterans . [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The first national president of the Mongols, Louis Costello, named the club in honor of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire .
Last defendant of Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle gang sentenced to federal prison for RICO, murder, kidnapping and more after years of investigation.
The Sons of Silence are classified as an outlaw motorcycle gang by the United States Department of Justice and have traditionally been considered part of the "big five" biker gangs, along with the Bandidos, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and the Pagans. [4] [11] The club has since been surpassed in membership size by the Mongols, however. [6]
People wearing Mongols motorcycle club vests walk over the new 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles on July 9. In 2018, the club was convicted of racketeering. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)
‘Getting real:’ Outlaw biker gang violence goes back to the 1940s. Outlaw motorcycle gangs sprung up in the United States in the 1940s. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in 1948 ...
Amongst the bikers who arrived in Laughlin were the members of the Hells Angels and Mongols. [1] The Mongols were the only outlaw biker gang allowed to wear California on their patches after winning a biker war with the Hells Angels over the issue in the 1970s-1980s, which caused much ill-will. [2]