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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 .
The Mongols Motorcycle Club is considered a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in various countries internationally. [3] [12] [13] Mongols members have a long history in the illegal drugs trade (especially methamphetamine), money laundering, robbery, extortion, firearms violations, murder, and assault, among other crimes.
One of the largest gangs in New Zealand, and for a time, the nation's largest outlaw motorcycle club. Also operates in the Commonwealth of Australia. [78] Highwaymen: 1954 Detroit, US Currently the largest outlaw motorcycle club in the city of Detroit. [79] Homietos Motorcycle Club: N/A N/A Active as of 2023 in Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and ...
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)
Last defendant of Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle gang sentenced to federal prison for RICO, murder, kidnapping and more after years of investigation.
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 .
TAMPA — An outlaw on the run after a fatal shootout in Colorado was arrested in Tampa last month at a clubhouse used by the Mongols Motorcycle Club. Gregory Moore Jr., 31, has been extradited on ...
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 ...