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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.
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 .
William Queen was a nearly 20-year ATF veteran as well as a motorcycle enthusiast when, in 1998, a "confidential informant" contacted Queen's superiors, offering to help place an agent inside the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Mongols. Queen's work was soon to become the most extensive undercover operation into a motorcycle gang in the ...
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]
Last defendant of Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle gang sentenced to federal prison for RICO, murder, kidnapping and more after years of investigation.
Founded in Montebello in the 1970s, the Mongols are what the ATF has dubbed an “outlaw motorcycle gang,” along with the Hells Angels, Pagans and Vagos, among others.
‘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 ...
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 .