Dany Kane
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| Dany Kane | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 L'Acadie, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Other names | Dany Boy |
| Occupation | informant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Surete du Quebec, associated with the Hells Angels |
Dany “Dany Boy” Kane was a Canadian criminal who was a compliant police informant at the same time.[1] Kane worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as an informant inside the Hells Angels for many years, and provided information to the police on the Hells Angels.[2] Kane was also secretly a bisexual,[3] which was uncommon for an outlaw motorcycle club. Kane was found dead of an apparent suicide in the garage of his suburban Montreal home in the summer of 2000.[1]
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Early life
Born in L’Acadie, Quebec, Canada, as a child Kane was brought up by caring relatives, attended private school and Boy Scouts and went on many expensive vacations.[1] He grew up discontented with his life and wanted recognition in a bike gang in Quebec.[1] Kane was a restless student who couldn’t sit still in class.[3] When he was 16 he left school and took whatever work he could get.[3] The neighbour of his parents introduced him to motorcycles and not long after he fell into the biker fraternity life of strip clubs run by the bikers in the small towns around Montreal.[3]
Personal life
Kane had a wife and three children and was secretly a bisexual.[3] His secret bisexual lover was Aime Simard.[3]
Criminal life
Kane’s first crime was a break-and-enter when he was seventeen.[3] By the age of eighteen, Kane joined a small biker gang named the Condors.[3] While working for the Condors he earned around $700 a week making sure dealers had the product they needed.[3] The Condors merged with a Hells Angels satellite group known as the Evil Ones, but Kane resented having to prove himself again to a new set of bikers and decided to branch out and sell drugs, guns, and cigarettes on his own.[3] From 1990 to 1992 he was making $300 a week from drug trafficking and sold between thirty to fifty guns and accessories.[3] In September 1992 Kane and two other men nearly beat two men to death. During the beating he accidentally shot one of the men in the head.[3] Kane was convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, assault, illegal use of a firearm and possession of a gun with the serial number filed off.[3] He was given a 25-month sentence of which he only served ten months in prison and another five in a transition home.[3] On April 1, 1994, Kane was found by police to have two loaded revolvers in his car and spent another four months in jail.[3]
Gang membership
Kane was a member of the outlaw motorcycle groups known as the Condors,[3] The Rockers, the Demon Keepers. He had ties to Maurice Boucher, the biggest name in the Canadian Hells Angels.[2] When his business began to suffer because he did not belong to a group, Kane approached two members of the Hells Angels, Walter Stadnick and David “Wolf” Carroll, with hope that they could get him into the Hells Angels.[3] After a year had passed of Kane doing what he thought was slave labour without being invited to the gang, he became annoyed with Stadnick and Carroll for not getting him into the gang.[3] The Hells Angels is a hierarchical organization that requires recruits start in a satellite club, if they do well the graduate to the title of hang around where they can’t where the patch but are considered a member, next they become a prospect where they get a half patch that shows the chapter’s title, and if they continue to perform well they become a full patch member and get the Winged Death Head emblem.[3] Kane was upset because he had worked with the gang for several years and was not even considered a hang around.[3] Kane’s luck then changed. Kane was “recruited by David (Wolf) Carroll and Walter (Nurgent) Stadnick to preside over three chapters of an Ontario puppet gang called the Demon Keepers.”[2] The plan did not work out because Carroll was a serious alcoholic and never had money to support the gang which meant they could not intimidate drug dealers in cities such as Ottawa, Cornwall and Toronto.[2] Once Kane was arrested Stadnick shut down the Demon Keepers.[3] After Kane was released from jail for his April 1994 weapons charges, he began to hate the Hells Angels.[3] He believed they had used them and told one of his police handlers that he wanted revenge.[3]
Informant years
Kane’s first stint as an informant lasted from 1994 to 1997 where he collected a total of $250,000.[2] By April 1995 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was paying Kane $2,000 a week.[3] With pressure in Montreal from the newly formed Provincial Wolverine bike squad and the recent arrest of his partner, Simard, on an unrelated murder charge, Kane would be brought into custody by the Nova Scotia RCMP for 18 months but would then be released due to the RCMP’s contradictory evidence.[1] During his time in custody for a murder that he would be acquitted for, the RCMP would drop Kane as an informant.[2] On August 23, 1999, a Montreal Urban Community Police Detective named Benoit Roberge approached Kane.[2] In a few months time after that date, Kane would be under contract with the Surete du Quebec as an agent source, and not just an informant.[2] This meant he had to detail everything he did with the Hells Angels, communicate with Roberge a few times a week, and testify about the things he did with the Hells Angels.[2] In a 30-page contract Kane made with the police, he would have made upwards of $2 million and the total cost of his operation, including witness relocation and overtime and operating expenses for police handlers would have been over $8.6 million.[1] Kane “kept them informed about what the top bikers in his circle were up to: where they were travelling; whom they were talking to; who had murdered whom and who was next; the Hells’ war plans against their Quebec rivals, the Rock Machine; their expansion plans into Ontario and Manitoba; and weapons and explosives purchases.”[3] By December 1994 he told Corporal Verdon about all of the above happenings as well as the Hells Angels business connections with top members of the Italian mafia as well as their plans form an elite group of bikers called the Nomads.[3] Some of such business connections that Kane told the RCMP about was how the Hells Angels sent him twice to meet Moreno Gallo and Tony Mucci, members of the Italian mafia, to discuss drug trafficking.[4] Kane’s reports gave unprecedented insight to the RCMP about how the inner echelon of the Hells Angels worked.[2]
Death
Kane was found in the garage of his Montreal suburb home when he was 31 years of age in the summer of 2000.[1] Kane was invited to a fellow bikers wedding in 2000, and to help protect his cover police gave him $1,000 to bring as a wedding gift.[2]
A few short days after the wedding Kane’s body was found in his home with a confusing suicide note that mentioned his sexuality and conflict involved with being a biker and an informant.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 [Konkel, K. (2005, April 9). The Mark of Kane. Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 9, 2016]
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 [Cherry, P. (2005). The biker trials: bringing down the Hells Angels. ECW Press. p. 18-21. 70-73.]
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 [Sher, J., & Marsden, W. (2010). The road to hell: how the biker gangs are conquering Canada. Seal Books. Retrieved from https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ToCy5cH253YC&oi=fnd&pg=PT2&dq=dany+kane+hells+angels&ots=MGs77-0np1&sig=pgsi7qKn64CaFRNLiShTQlbCZZ8#v=onepage&q=dany%20kane%20hells%20angels&f=false]
- ↑ [Police raids left Rizzuto mob in disarray. (2007, July 28). The Gazette]
