The 8 Bikers Who Walked Free After Beating a Life Sentence
Eight outlaw bikers. Eight life sentences on the table. Every one of them walked. This is the story of how the U.S. government's most powerful weapon against the Hells Angels, the Outlaws, and the Vagos, the RICO racketeering law, kept failing in court. We break down the acquittals, dismissals, and reversals that let these men beat charges built to put them away forever, and the one man who walked free in front of a cheering crowd only to be buried by the state four years later. Covered in this video: Sonny Barger and the 1980 RICO trial that collapsed. Alan Passaro's Altamont murder acquittal caught on film. George Christie beating a federal murder-for-hire case. The 36 Hells Angels freed after the Laughlin River Run Riot. Maurice "Mom" Boucher's Quebec acquittal and reversal. Outlaws member Gregory Driver's RICO reversal on appeal. And the eight Vagos acquitted of everything in Las Vegas in 2020. Why does RICO keep losing to men in leather vests? The answer is in the machine, not the bikers. #HellsAngels #Vagos #Outlaws #RICO #OutlawMC #BikerNews #TrueCrime #OrganizedCrime #MongolsMC #1percenter #MauriceBoucher #SonnyBarger SOURCES / READING LIST The New York Times — reporting on the 1979–1980 federal Hells Angels RICO trial and mistrials (Northern District of California) The Washington Post — Sonny Barger jailhouse interview, 1979 Associated Press / NPR — Sonny Barger obituary, June 2022 Los Angeles Times — George Christie federal murder-for-hire acquittal, April 1987 Rolling Stone and the Maysles brothers' documentary Gimme Shelter — Alan Passaro's Altamont trial and 1971 acquittal Las Vegas Review-Journal — Laughlin River Run federal case dismissals (2006) and the 2020 Vagos racketeering acquittal Las Vegas Sun — trial testimony on the fabricated "green light" claim Supreme Court of Nevada — reversal of Ernesto Gonzalez's state murder conviction U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit — United States v. Wheeler (2008), reversing the RICO convictions of Gregory Driver U.S. District Court, District of Nevada — federal indictment and verdicts in the Vagos RICO prosecution CBC News and the Montreal Gazette — Maurice "Mom" Boucher's 1998 acquittal, 2002 conviction, and 2022 death
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