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The club supported all kinds of law enforcement functions, (This is a known fact) and the club didnt throw on a diamond until around 2017. The big Mongol was the first to learn how much Jesse loved to fight, as the gear cut open a savage gash in the big man's face, eyebrow to chin. In their petition, the Mongols argue that Mr. Santillan could have been pressured to leak strategy and other information to the government as a result of lenient treatment the defense claimed he received during his brushes with the law. Black Dragon's Sunday Night Round Table discusses Insane Throttle's live interview with former Mongol's MC Nation's International President Lil' Dave. Former Mongols President David Santillan continued to testify. The. At the core of the case was a video of a conversation between Mr. Santillan and his wife that she had passed on to members of the biker club last year, accompanied by a text message in which she told them that her husband had been a confidential government informant. All rights reserved. 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On the stand, Mr. Santillan called the claims about his daily meetings with Mr. Ciccone an absolute lie. (He acknowledged encountering Mr. Ciccone by chance at a Starbucks near the courthouse once during the trial.). Now its onto covering what the biker lifestyle is all about- Fun and riding motorcycles. "I think they got David in compromising situations," Yanny tells Eyewitness News. David Santillan, the president of the Mongols, was ousted by the group after a video surfaced that implied he was being protected by a federal agent.CreditMichael Tyrone Delaney for The New York Times. "It was an improper line of communication, particularly for a law enforcement personnel trying to convict an entity of being a criminal organization," Yanny said. Great conversation with the president of the Mongols. Mr. Santillan said he talked with the A.T.F. agent over the years because it helped avert trouble. He alleges that Santillan sabotaged the trial by not allowing him to call Ciccone to the stand. Mr. Santillan has acknowledged that he talked often with Mr. Ciccone for a period of years, usually in the presence of other Mongols members. (Photo by The Associated Press). He cant protect me, he told me, so we have to have an exit strategy, he told me, Mr. Santillan, who sounded drunk and sounded distraught, said to her. The current national leaders of the Mongols said they were convinced that the clubs former president, who controlled the Mongols defense team, had acted improperly. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. In exchange, the club said in its motion, the agent appears to have spared Mr. Santillan from serious legal consequences for several offenses since 2011. In 2018, the government scored a victory of sorts. The indictment did not target any individuals but alleged that the club itself had engaged in an organized conspiracy of crimes such as murder, attempted murder and drug dealing. A petition for a new trial and reversal of the half-million-dollar fine, which is scheduled for an initial hearing on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., claims that Mr. Santillan, 52, covertly cooperated for years with a special agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He was the guy outside all the time providing cover support in case something went wrong with the undercovers.. Prosecutors convinced a jury in California that these crimes were not just the result of individual bikers behaving badly, but the work of an organized criminal enterprise that had participated in a campaign of mayhem. Anyone can read what you share. "This was a lifestyle, a culture, and a way of life. Never in my life have I ever implicated anybody in the club for some kind of nefarious activity. For more than two decades, federal law enforcement authorities pursued the Mongols, a notorious motorcycle club whose members had a long history of murder, assault, drug dealing and robbery. Mr. Santillan provided records from the cases to show he had been convicted of offenses including driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and disturbing the peace, and that he had been arrested, fined and put on probation. The Mongols Motorcycle Club was convicted in late 2018 of racketeering and conspiracy. Then the conversation, which she was. Join u. AboutPressCopyrightContact. The A.T.F. The club was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine in what prosecutors hoped would be a down payment on putting it out of business. I think it would be time to really clean house over there, anyone that lil Dave came in contact with on a regular basis would have to go? He cant protect me, he told me, so we have to have an exit strategy, he told me, an apparently agitated Mr. Santillan said to her. Both Mr. Ciccone and the U.S. Attorneys Office declined to comment on the motion beyond the government response filed in court, which said the petition for a new trial was replete with false and unsupported allegations and speculation.. She also said in a text message to other Mongols, now filed with the court, that her husband had acted for a time as a confidential government informant. The current president of the Mongols Motorcycle Club is David Santillan, a man who claims that the organization has changed its code of conduct to exclude drug abusers and criminals. If MCs want to be seen as a club then stop all the violence, the general public can see through all the BS, as can those who are a part of this scene and want nothing to do with clubs. He said their communication was for public safety and showed the Mongols that there is ATF presence at their events. Lil Dave, the president of the Mongols motorcycle club, was caught cheating on his wife so she decided to revenge his ass by putting this video on Youtube which shows him supposedly. The Mongols have been fixtures on the biker scene since 1969, when the club was founded in Montebello, Calif. John looked out not just for me but the club, Mr. Santillan said. Now its at a point where guns, instead of fist are used to settle things. ", LA County sheriff's recruits graduate months after Whittier crash, Highways into the San Bernardino Mountains are closed to drivers, LA County passes motion requiring retrofit of some buildings by 2033. So, she sent the recording along with a text message to two other members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. Ms. Santillan said that she now felt horrible about disclosing the communications and that her husband was not, in fact, an informant. Representatives from several local law enforcement departments also said they had no such records. The club was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine in what prosecutors hoped would be a down payment on putting it out of business. Sherdog.com is a property of Mandatory Media, LLC, monitoring_string = "5200e30beed193e5fe31f8bccc2bdcbf". Chunks of flesh and trails of blood were flying everywhere as he took full swings at attacker after attacker. Mongols MC President Lil Dave THE REAL AMERICAN CHOLO. The club was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine in what prosecutors hoped would be a down payment on putting it out of business. Mongols Motorcycle Club Says Its Leader Was an Informant, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/mongols-new-trial.html. The Mongols are now claiming that throughout their attempt to defend the club in the long-running criminal case, their own leader was secretly talking to the government. The Mongols Motorcycle Club was convicted in late 2018 of racketeering and conspiracy. Marshal that Mr. Santillan and Mr. Ciccone had been seen chatting at a Starbucks near the courthouse. In their petition, the Mongols argue that Mr. Santillan could have been pressured to leak strategy and other information to the government as a result of lenient treatment the defense claimed he received during his brushes with the law. The judge will most likely consider a series of procedural matters on Monday, lawyers said, with additional hearings expected before any final ruling. A petition for a new trial and reversal of the half-million-dollar fine, which is scheduled for an initial hearing on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., claims that Mr. Santillan, 52, covertly cooperated for years with a special agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Two years after a federal jury deemed the notorious Mongols Motorcycle Club a criminal organization, attorneys for the club are asking a judge for a new trial accusing its former president of. There was nothing nefarious about it.". In 2018, the club was convicted of. In court testimony and in an earlier interview, Ms. Santillan said she had shared the video and the text with the Mongols in an attempt to destroy her husband but had since regretted it; she said she was not being truthful when she claimed he had been an informant. There's a new twist in a federal case already marked by murder and mayhem. In the case that led to the racketeering conviction against the Mongols, Mr. Ciccone had acted as the case agent. In the call, David Santillan sobs and says he wants to reconcile. They are sick and tired of the gangster shit, they want to be bikers and be apart of a scene that was once true to itself (Thus the reason for pop up clubs and lack of respect for protocol and tradition). Ethan Tate, Meghann M. Cuniff and Lauren Herstik contributed reporting. Get your Signed Copy of Brotherhood & Betrayal( shipping is included to the Lower 48 States only)- Shipping to Canada, Australia and Overseas please contact Chinadoll annredden2003@gmail.com Order Yours Now~! In other words, she wrote, he is a rat.. He's accused of being a confidential informant and working with the government during the Mongols' trial after his wife, Annie, shared a June 2021 recorded phone conversation with other members of the biker gang calling him a rat. Prosecutors convinced a jury in California that these crimes were not just the result of individual bikers behaving badly, but the work of an organized criminal enterprise that had participated in a campaign of mayhem.