Canada - ~Biker snitch was paid $1M, but sold out in-laws for free~
Murder-plot trial hears from Hells Angels agent
An Oshawa Hells Angel sold out his biker brothers to police for more than $1 million, but informed on his in-laws free, a murder conspiracy trial was told yesterday.
Steven Gault, a Grade 10 dropout with a string of fraud and assault convictions, told Superior Court in Whitby that he wasn't sure exactly how much he had been paid by police since signing a contract to work as an undercover agent against the Hells Angels in April 2005.
Lawyer Brian Grys, who's defending Oshawa Hells Angels president Mark Cephes Stephenson on charges of plotting to kill a rival biker, told court he pegged the figure at $1,041,800.
"I'll go with your math," said Gault, who took the witness stand dressed in a black business suit.
Gault is a former executive member of the Oshawa Hells Angels, nicknamed "The Asylum Crew" for their often-wild behaviour.
He's now in a witness protection program. He's also the star prosecution witness in the murder-plot trial of Stephenson and Remond (Ray) Akleh, a member of the club's elite, Ottawa-based Nomads unit.
Akleh and Stephenson are accused of enlisting Gault to murder rival biker Frank (Cisco) Lenti of the Bandidos in June 2006. The alleged plot was never carried out.
Gault told court he has been selling criminals' secrets to the police since he was in high school and that he joined the Hells Angels with the intention of selling them out, too.
He testified that he generally received less than $1,000 for passing information to more than a half-dozen officers in North Bay, Cobourg and Oshawa, but that he snitched on his former brothers-in-law free.
He told police that he and one former brother-in-law were part of a loosely knit criminal group which called itself "the Wanderers" that victimized elderly farmers with barn and home renovation scams.
He said he sold out the Wanderers to police, driving down rural roads in eastern Ontario with a police officer and pointing out barns the gang had likely worked on.
"What was it about the work that you could recognize?" Grys asked.
"That it was horrible," Gault replied in a flat voice.
He said he couldn't recall, but believes he snitched to police free on another brother-in-law, Manny, for his role in a small-town marijuana operation.
Gault acknowledged to court that he has taken part in a variety of crimes, including drug rip-offs and renovation frauds, but said he was drawn into the crimes by others.
He dismissed a suggestion from Grys that he and the other Wanderers preyed on the elderly because they are vulnerable. He said they defrauded elderly farmers "because they have a lot of money."
During a drug rip-off in the Cobourg area, Gault admitted he held a loaded 12-gauge shotgun while an accomplice clubbed a dog with a shovel after they had broken into a home. He said the shotgun was necessary because their victim was "a complete psychopath who carries a gun everywhere he goes and I didn't really want to get killed."
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