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On 2 November 1998, Boucher's trial began in Montreal with Boucher being defended by Jacques Larochelle and Crown Attorney Jacques Dagenais prosecuting. [131] Dagenais admitted he had a difficult case as Gagné was an unsavory and unlikeable star witness, a self-confessed hitman who had only turned Crown's evidence for a lighter sentence. [132]
Gregory Woolley (February 26, 1972 – November 17, 2023) was a Haitian-born Canadian mobster associated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. [1] [2] [3] Woolley was the protégé and bodyguard of Maurice Boucher, a controversial senior Hells Angels leader who led his chapter in a long and extremely violent gang war against the Rock Machine, in Quebec, from 1994 to 2002. [4]
On 27 November 1998, Boucher was acquitted of ordering the murder of the two prison guards in 1997, and afterwards became a folk hero in Quebec, with people in the poor neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal cheering Boucher and his fellow Angels as they rode their Harley-Davidson motorcycles down the streets like it was a royal ...
The Rockers MC was first set up in March 26 of 1992 by then-President of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) Montreal charter, Maurice "Mom" Boucher.It was during this time in Quebec that several organized crime entities were competing for drug turf across the French-speaking province.
[122] [123] As part of the same operation, the police charged Maurice Boucher with ordering the failed assassination plot on Desjardins from his prison cell. [ 124 ] On March 1, 2016, 52-year-old Lorenzo "Skunk" Giordano, a Rizzuto lieutenant and confidant who had expressed wishes to become the next boss of the Rizzuto family, was shot to death ...
In July 1995, Boucher was released and in April 1996 Gagné was released. [14] On his first day of freedom, Gagné contacted Francis Boucher to ask for a meeting with his father and on the second day he had lunch with Maurice Boucher. [14] Gagné was told: "I've got important work for you. I want you to stick around". [16]
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According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) informer Dany Kane, the anonymous caller was Hells Angels Montreal chapter president Maurice Boucher, who had also bribed the Sûreté du Québec detectives to plant the evidence, as this would be a "win-win" for him. [20]