 Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going back up to the great white north into Montreal. It's 2024 and I'm going to break down Marty robert aka Marty the capo, the most prominent ambitious high profile biker boss in North America right now is making a run for the entire country's racket empire. That's what we've been reporting over the last six months that Marty will bear in the Hells Angels want to take over the Canadian underworld and are looking to absorb the process. Conquer their rackets and then take all of Quebec, Ontario and then eventually move westward so I'm going to break down Marty's inner circle right now guys that he has real close to him that he's relying on for muscle for business for muscle, about five to 10 guys that are in his inner circle that make up his cabinet per se. So his if you've been following Marty if you've been following the Hells Angels in Montreal some of these names will be familiar. But I just want to break it down and let you know the scorecard for 24 and in terms of who Marty has lined up right next to him. So let's start with his best friend and right hand man, Stefan plouffe. This is, you know, this is his chief of staff, a guy a long time Hells Angel guy that's very trusted very capable. And, you know, fest is Marty shadow, a guy that is as trusted and relied upon as any and Marty's inner circle. You get beyond fest get to his bodyguard kind of his young, younger protege, big Mike Lamontaine, who is by his side quite a bit as well watching his back doing doing some of his bidding. And then a guy that's made his way recently into Marty's inner circle over the last couple years we've talked about it, Teflon Rob Barletta who's been moved from his role as a leader in the Hells Angels in Ontario. In London, as well as Niagara, and was brought up to Montreal about three, three, four years ago to help with, you know, Marty's Marty's plan to keep pushing the needle and grow the Hells Angels power in Canada bigger than it's ever been and it's been pretty big over the years. And he wants to take what Mom Boucher did and supersize it put it on steroids. So, Rob Barletta is upsteadly a big piece of that is known for his ability to not just run interference with the Italians but also he's great with numbers he's great running a sports book he's great at reflecting a guy that really knows the ins and outs of the gambling business and was another guy that was involved in construction back in the day, working very closely with the Rizzudos. Underneath that kind of core three, you go to guys like race, Larvier who we've talked about before Jean-Michard Larvier who is big street bank guy, drugs weapons guy a guy that's been around thought on the front lines of a number of wars. I have no questions about where he stands with Marty right now because of his relationship with, because of races relationship with with Greg Woolley and Sammy, tomorrow who have both been slain in the last couple months but we'll still put race right in there as a major cog in this Hells Angels wheel that's spun by Marty Robert. You also got a guy named David Lafever, Lafibre or Lafever, they call him Fever dog, another top top lieutenant for Marty and then you got the Vachon brothers, who are pretty feared siblings that François and Sylvain that very capable guys that are earners guys that are known, very capable with their hands, very trusted again by Marty Robert all these guys were at Marty's wedding back in 2018. And then we get to the OGs, the guys that are, you know, if this was an Italian mafia, you would consider them consularies or emeritus guys that Marty looks to from the old guard Marty's only about 50 years old. These guys are in their 60s and 70s go back to Mambouche go back to the original Montreal nomads guys like Salvatore Brunetti and then Dick Mayrand and Mayrand is a He is, he's as OG as you come. When it comes to the Hells Angels in Montreal Brunetti was a rock machine guy that became a Hells Angels he's a little older than than Mayrand but I know Marty really leans on Dick Mayrand for not just his conduit to the old guard but as somebody that he really respects in his ability to lead an offensive tactically as someone who knows how to interact with the rank and file someone who knows how to interact with other groups. And I know that Marty is taking a lot of counsel from Dick Mayrand and Salvatore Brunetti. You know, those are the guys that Marty has around him right now for this, what's being deemed by law enforcement as well as guys on the street it's called Marty's war right now Marty. It's a war within a war we've talked about that started off as residual mob fighting off an insurgents allied in an alliance with the Hells Angels and at some point in the last year and a half. Hells Angels now have began firing upon the residual mob, trying to forge a hostile takeover. And these are the guys that Marty Robert has around and Marty Robert right now. As I said, probably the most consequential mafia boss right now in North America and that's not taking it. Not taking anything away from Tommy L from the outlaws or Keith Richter from the pagans but this is just at a different level we've never seen someone try to take over a country and flip a paradigm that has been in existence forever where the Italians were kind of the final word in in the Canadian underworld and the Hells Angels were subservient to them will now Marty wants the Hells Angels to be the final word so we'll as always here in the OG pod will be tracking it and keeping you up to date in real time. What's going on in the war up in Canada but this is a breakdown of the scorecard for 2024 and who Marty Robert has in his inner circle. It's a murderer's row baby buckle in because 2024 is sure to be as crazy if not crazier than 2023. For OG pod I'm Scott Bernstein.