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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 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]
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.
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 ...
[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 ...
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]
The Monitor, Montreal, 1926 (converted to online-only in 2009) L'Illustration, 1930, Montréal (also known as L'Illustration Nouvelle and Montréal-Matin) Dimanche-Matin, 1954, Montreal; Sunday Express, circa 1973, Montreal; Le Jour, 1974, Saint-Laurent; Montreal Daily News, 1988, Montreal
By 1984, the SS biker club's membership had increased and its ranks included several high-profile figures in the Canadian biker scene, including the Cazzetta brothers, Paul "Sasquatch" Porter, Maurice "Mom" Boucher, Normand "Biff" Hamel, Gillies Lambert, Louis "Mélou" Roy, Normand Robitaille, Salvatore Brunetti, René "Balloune" Charlebois, André Chouinard, Denis "Pas Fiable" Houle, Gilles ...