121 Facts About Dany Kane

Dany "Dany Boy" Kane was a Canadian criminal who was a compliant police informant at the same time.

Dany Kane was found dead of an apparent suicide in the garage of his suburban Montreal home in the summer of 2000.

Dany Kane's father, Jean-Paul Dany Kane, was a bricklayer, while mother Gemma Brideau was a housewife.

Dany Kane was a loner who disliked revealing his feelings and always felt out of place.

In 1983, Dany Kane met and started to date a 13-year-old girl, known under the pseudonym of Josee as she does not want her real to be known, who later became his wife.

Dany Kane grew up discontented with his life and wanted recognition in a bike gang in Quebec.

Dany Kane was a restless student who was incapable of sitting still in class.

Ever since the 1960s, there has been an outlaw biker subculture in Quebec, and Dany Kane embraced it as a way of rejecting the values of his working-class family.

Josee reported from his teenage years onward Dany Kane had wanted to join an outlaw biker club, with the Hells Angels being his first choice.

Dany Kane's first crime was a break-and-enter when he was seventeen.

The Condors merged with a Hells Angels puppet group known as the Evil Ones, but Dany 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.

Dany Kane was very active as a gun-runner, buying illegal guns smuggled in from the United States via the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve, which straddles the border between Quebec and New York state, and is one of the main smuggling routes between Montreal and New York city.

Dany Kane sold guns to anyone who asked and had enough money.

Dany Kane shot Baker in the legs, saying this was punishment for stealing his guns.

Dany 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.

Dany Kane was given a 25-month sentence of which he only served ten months in prison and another five in a transition home.

Dany Kane had ties to Maurice Boucher, the biggest name in the Canadian Hells Angels.

When his business began to suffer because he did not belong to a group, Dany 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.

Dany Kane had to work as a bodyguard and a chauffeur to Carroll and Stadnick; as a "mule" delivering drugs, prostitutes and guns; and paying for all their meals and drinks at restaurants and bars, in hope that he would be promoted up the ranks as a reward.

Dany Kane kept his bisexuality a closely guarded secret as homophobia is rampant within the outlaw biker subculture.

Dany Kane was upset because he had worked with the gang for several years and was not even considered a hang around.

Dany Kane unveiled the Demon Keepers patch, which he had designed himself.

Dany Kane chose as the Demon Keepers' clubhouse an expensive apartment on Eglinton Avenue in Toronto.

Dany Kane had the Demon Keepers ride through small towns like Belleville in attempts to pressure local drug dealers to buy from the Demon Keepers.

Dany Kane called the Demon Keepers a gang of "no-talent imbeciles" while Carroll was often too drunk to lend him support and Stadnick was attempting to persuade the Satan's Choice and Para-Dice Riders gangs to "patch over" to become Hells Angels.

Once Dany Kane was arrested Stadnick shut down the Demon Keepers.

Dany Kane felt that Stadnick had set him up to fail with the Demon Keepers, and he wanted revenge by becoming a police informer.

In July 1994, Dany Kane started to associate with Scott Steinert, an American living in Montreal who was a "prospect" with the Hells Angels.

Steinert planned to set up a Hells Angels chapter in Kingston once he was promoted up to a "full patch" Hells Angel and planned to have Dany Kane move to Kingston with him.

However, Carroll ordered Dany Kane to rejoin the Evil Ones puppet gang, which Dany Kane considered to be a major humiliation.

Dany Kane believed that the Hells Angels had used them and told one of his police handlers that he wanted revenge.

Dany Kane had become frustrated that he was still a member of the Rockers, the Hells Angels' puppet club in Montreal, and had not been promoted to become an Angel despite all of his work for the club.

On 17 October 1994, Dany Kane contacted Staff-Sergeant Jean-Pierre Levesque of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to tell them he wanted to work as an informer.

Dany Kane had his first meeting with Verdon on 4 November 1994.

Dany Kane told Verdon that Boucher said that the new Nomad chapter was going to be "plus rock n' roll".

Dany Kane told the RCMP about the Hells Angels having twice sent him to meet Moreno Gallo and Tony Mucci to discuss drug trafficking.

Dany Kane's reports gave unprecedented insight to the RCMP about how the inner echelon of the Hells Angels worked.

Dany Kane had a secretive, manipulative personality as he thoroughly enjoyed power and maneuvering behind-the-scenes to play off people.

Dany Kane warned his RCMP handlers to be careful with sharing the intelligence collected by him with the Surete du Quebec, which he described as being systemically corrupt, and with the police forces of Greenfield Park and Brossard.

Dany Kane reported that the Hells Angels had photographs of most of the Rock Machine members via police records.

The Canadian journalist Daniel Sanger wrote that much of the RCMP's relationship with Dany Kane was questionable from a legal viewpoint as Dany Kane continued to be involved in murders and bombings while working as an informer, which was a violation of the RCMP's rules.

On 19 December 1994, Dany Kane took his police handlers on a guided tour of the hidden bomb factories for the Hells Angels located in various houses, apartments and offices throughout Montreal, Sorel and the South Shore.

Dany Kane informed the RCMP that Boucher had bribed the Acapulco police to have Hinse freed and on 15 January 1995 Hinse was indeed freed.

Dany Kane reported that a Mexican policeman had told Boucher that he should have contracted out the murder of Baker to a Mexican hitman instead of sending down a Canadian Hells Angel to kill Baker.

In March 1995, Dany Kane's cover was almost blown when Boucher was arrested for carrying a handgun, and an officer with the Surete du Quebec told him that the RCMP had a "coded informer" whose number was C-2994 working within the ranks of the Angels.

Dany Kane reported: "After some hard thinking, Mom [Boucher] reached the conclusion that it could be one of six people".

Dany Kane was temporarily saved when the Hells Angels hitman Serge Quesnel turned informer after his arrest in April 1995, which led to the conclusion being reached in the Hells Angels that he was the "coded informer".

Dany Kane described Steinert to his police handlers as the most aggressive and ruthless of the Angels and as Boucher's right-hand man as he made more money than any of the other Angels.

When Carroll asked Dany Kane to drive him to Halifax in March 1995, Steinert refused to allow it and the two men almost came to blows over the issue.

Carroll wanted Dany Kane to continue with the Evil Ones puppet gang while Steinert wanted to set up a new Hells Angels puppet gang in Kingston, Ontario with Dany Kane to be the president.

Sher and Marsden wrote Dany Kane was sometimes self-serving in his reports to his RCMP handlers and he was a well known expert at building bombs, suggesting there was a possibility that it was him instead of Steinert who set off the bomb that killed Desrochers.

Dany Kane was an expert bomb-maker and at very least was a member of Steinert's bomb-making team instead of being the passive observer that he portrayed himself as.

Dany Kane committed at least 11 murders from 1994 to 1997 during his time as the most highly placed RCMP informer in the Hells Angels.

In September 1995, Dany Kane was involved in the murder of a drug dealer, Stephane Boire.

Dany Kane stated that Steinert was very keen to move into northern Ontario, which was so lucrative for selling cocaine.

Dany Kane lied to both women to explain his frequent absences as he maintained that his work required him to be away often.

Patricia was unaware that Dany Kane was working for the Hells Angels.

Dany Kane reported: "Their goal was to take a big part of the Toronto drug market".

On 23 February 1996, Dany Kane reported to his handlers that his patron Steinet had been promoted up to a "full patch" Hells Angels despite the way that Boucher had considered expelling him in January 1996 and that Gerald Matticks, the boss of the West End Gang, which controlled the port of Montreal, had just imported 500 kilograms of cocaine from Columbia to sell to the Hells Angels.

Dany Kane reported that Labrasseur was working as chauffeur for Carroll and was planning to enter a cocaine treatment center.

Dany Kane told her in response: "That's too bad because it's the last time you'll be seeing him".

Dany Kane was later to say in 2000 that he killed Labrasseur on Carroll's orders.

Dany Kane in his reports stated that Labrasseur was a former soldier in the Canadian Army who was an expert with explosives who had been building bombs for the Hells Angels.

Dany Kane was correct that Labrasseur had indeed served in the Canadian Army, but Verdon discovered from looking at his service records that he had no explosives training beyond learning how to throw a hand grenade.

Sher and Marsden wrote that Labrasseur was "a sad character, a bit of a simpleton with a cocaine addiction" and that Dany Kane's claims that he was an expert bomb-maker who built bombs set off by car alarms and pagers were fanciful at best.

Dany Kane appeared to be trying to blame Labrasseur for the bombings that he had himself had committed.

Sher and Marsden wrote that Dany Kane probably killed Boire despite the way that he continued to pin the blame on Bouchard, a man he clearly disliked.

Dany Kane was active as a bomb-maker and he blew up the Green Stop restaurant in Chateauguay after the owner refused to pay protection money to the Hells Angels.

Dany Kane reported that Carroll together with a member of the Rizzuto family owned a bar in the town of St Sauveur, which by 1997 had been so successful that Carroll had started building condos in St Sauveur as it was "a great chance to launder a bit of money".

On 3 May 1996, Dany Kane told his handlers that Stockford had arranged for a drug courier to go Montreal to Toronto with one kilogram of cocaine; about 1,000 ecstasy pills; and four kilograms of Hashish.

In September 1996, Josee discovered that Dany Kane was living in the same apartment as Patricia, which led her to file for divorce.

On 29 November 1996, Dany Kane wrote in a report that Stockford had a courier deliver 300 kilograms of hashish to Hamilton, and in another report in January 1997 stated that Stockford had sent another courier with 4 kilograms of cocaine to Oshawa.

Dany Kane had a wife and three children and was secretly a bisexual.

Staff Sergeant St Onge argued that it was necessary for the Mounties to subsidize Rencontres Selectes because "it means he [Dany Kane] didn't have to commit serious crimes and thus could avoid getting arrested himself arrested or killed and could continue to feed us information".

Dany Kane reported in the summer of 1996 that a conflict was brewing within the Hells Angels Montreal chapter with one faction loyal to Steinert and another to Stadnick, Stockford and Carroll.

Dany Kane reported that Stadnick and Carroll wanted Magnussen killed as Dany Kane stated: "This, in effect, would be the only way to prove to other biker gangs in western Canada that the assassination of Boyko wasn't ordered by the Hells Angels".

Dany Kane reported that Caroll hired Andre "Toots" Tousiganat in May 1996 to kill Donald "Bam Bam" Magnussen, the bodyguard to Steinert, and was very unhappy that after five months that Tousigant had failed to act.

In October 1996, Dany Kane was offered $10,000 by Carroll, Stockford and Stadnick to kill Magnussen.

Dany Kane knew that Steinert would have him killed if he killed Magnussen, and to get out of the dilemma, asked his handlers to warn Magnussen his life was in danger.

Dany Kane was saved when Boucher declared that since Magnussen was a full patch Hells Angel, only another full patch Angel could kill him, and not a Rocker like Dany Kane.

Dany Kane reported that Boucher had declared as a Nomad president that Stadnick had to kill Magunssen.

Dany Kane reported that Vito Rizzuto was furious with Magunssen and wanted him dead.

In November 1996, Dany Kane used his own website to meet Aime Simard whom he recruited into the Rockers.

When Dany Kane took off his clothes, Simard was impressed to see he had on his arm a tattoo that read "SS 81".

Dany Kane then admitted that he was involved with the Hells Angels, but claimed to be a member of the Hells Angels proper instead of being the Rocker that he was.

Dany Kane reported to his RCMP handlers in February 1997 that the Hells Angels had driven the Rock Machine out of its almost all of their former drug markets and the Hells Angels were set upon taking control of the Rock Machine's last strongholds of Pointe-St-Charles, Verdun, Lasalle, St-Henri, Lachine, Ville-Emard and Cote-St-Paul.

Dany Kane reported that the Rockers puppet gang had set up a death squad whose chief members were Gregory Woolley, Pierre Provencher, Normand Robitaille, Stephen Falls, and Stephane Gagne.

Dany Kane reported that a drug dealer working for the Hells Angels known as Gros Mo was beaten up for buying cocaine from the Rock Machine, but he omitted that Simard had nearly killed Gros Mo.

Unlike the control freak Dany Kane, Simard was reckless and out of control.

Sher and Marsden wrote that Dany Kane "seemed to view Simard as a goofy sort of toy-somebody he could play with or employ as the need arose".

However, the RCMP did not become overtly concerned about what Dany Kane was doing in New Brunswick despite the fact that Dany Kane had not mentioned to his handlers that he was going to Halifax.

Dany Kane told his mistress Patricia around about the same time that Simard was "a real psychopath" and he regretted letting Simard live with them.

Simard agreed to become a delateur after his arrest, and in his confession mentioned that he and Dany Kane had killed MacFarlane.

Simard blamed Dany Kane for drawing him into the world of the Hells Angels, but at the same time he was deeply in love with him.

Barnett and Constable Tom Townsend arrived in Montreal to ask that Dany Kane be extradited to Halifax to face charges of first degree murder for the killing of MacFarane, and first learned that Dany Kane was the RCMP's main informer within the Hells Angels.

Dany Kane knew Carroll had been accused of murder in Halifax and that the police had tried a similar ploy with him.

Dany Kane was thrown into a moment of panic in August 1997 when Simard accused him of being an informer as he noted that the police knew where he had hidden a gun after shooting a man in Quebec City and the only person whom Simard had told about the location of the gun was Dany Kane.

Dany Kane asks what is the possibility of cooperating with us at the same time specifying that he does not want, under any circumstances to cooperate with the Surete du Quebec.

Dany Kane complained that during his time in the Halifax jail that neither of his feuding patrons, Steinert or Carroll, could be bothered to visit him.

Dany Kane frequently called his wife Patricia or former wife Josee from his jail to complain about jail life to the former while berating the latter as a poor mother to his children.

The French-Canadian Dany Kane insisted on his constitutional right to have his trial in French, which delayed the proceedings as the Crown had to find a French-speaking judge, jury and Crown Attorney for his trial in Halifax.

Dany Kane's trial which began on 13 October 1998 was a farce as the judge Felix Cacchione ruled the pull-over in Oromocto was not warranted and ruled the evidence from it as inadmissible such as the computer search done by Blinn, through he did ruled that Blinn could testify that he identified Dany Kane in a police line-up as the man he had pulled over in Oromocto.

Simard was the main witness for the Crown, but to confirm his story required that Blinn and Hutley confirm that Dany Kane was the man they had pulled over with Simard.

Dany Kane stated that la messe were held at motels, and the members only learned of them the day before when a Rocker would hand out business cards with the name of the motel and the room that they were to meet.

In January 2000, Roberge reported that Dany Kane was suffering from depression, stating: "The source is going through a phrase where he is not motivated and is rethinking his personal life".

Dany Kane had to work 18-hour days, meeting with his handlers at 7 am, and spent most of his days working as a chauffeur and bodyguard to the Nomad Normand Robitalle.

In February 2000, Dany Kane was temporarily suspended from the Rockers after he was $3,000 in arrears relating to unpaid membership dues.

That same month, Dany Kane was forced to take on a $130,000 drug debt run up by the Nomad Denis Houle.

On 10 March 2000, Dany Kane signed a confession listing all of his various crimes as part of his agent source contract.

On 31 March 2000, Dany Kane told Roberge that Carroll was planning to kill Kirk Mersereau in the near-future.

On 19 April 2000, Dany Kane met in Toronto several Para-Dice Riders to discuss who he was to kill to Toronto besides for Raso.

Dany Kane reported that Carroll had devised a plan under which Dany Kane would use his bomb-making skills to build a powerful bomb to destroy the Loners' clubhouse in Woodbridge with the aim of killing the entire gang.

Dany Kane sabotaged his mission by encouraging the Para-Dice Riders under the influence of alcohol to speak very loudly in public at a Toronto bar about the murder plot, which led Carroll to declare with disgust that the Para-Dice Riders were "idiots" as now the murder plot could not go forward.

On 25 June 2000, Dany Kane was ordered by Caroll to go to Halifax at once, and the next day he met Carroll in a McDonald's in Truro.

Later that evening, Dany Kane went to the Angels' Halifax clubhouse to meet Carroll and McCrea who agreed that Jeff Lynds, a follower in the Mersereau gang would kill his leader in exchange for being made a prospect with the Hells Angels and Dany Kane would help him.

Dany Kane's handlers were desperately thinking of way to stop the murder plot without compromising Dany Kane's cover, but on 30 June 2000, Mersereau was injured in a car accident, which led to the plot being cancelled.

However, the documents that Dany Kane photographed were in a code that police could not decipher along with a number of cryptic names.

Dany Kane's information led the police in 2000 to a man the Angel records called "Boueuf", who turned out to be Gerald Matticks, the boss of the West End Gang.

Dany Kane revealed that Elias Luis Lekkas of the West End Gang was making regular trips between the Nomad "bank" on Beaubien Street to Matticks's estate, carrying bags full of $500,000 in cash.

Dany Kane was invited to a fellow biker's wedding in the summer of 2000, and to help protect his cover police gave him $1,000 to bring as a wedding gift.

Bouchard suggested that Dany Kane killed himself because he knew that ultimately he would have to testify against the Hells Angel leaders, which would expose him as an informer.