43 Facts About Frank Lenti

Francesco "Cisco" Lenti was born on 1947 and is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, and the co-founder of the Loners Motorcycle Club.

Frank Lenti was born in Woodbridge, Ontario to Italian immigrant parents.

Frank Lenti was never a member of the Mafia, but he had friendships with several Mafiosi over the years such as Domenic Musitano of the Musitano family of Hamilton.

Frank Lenti started out as a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and was one of the first members of Satan's Choice together with his friend Cecil Kirby to visit the Satan's Choice's national president Bernie Guindon in jail at the Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre in Sault.

Frank Lenti had Mafia connections and it was he who recommended Kirby as a hitman to Cosimo Commisso, saying that Kirby was good with bombs and guns, though he warned that Kirby was not to be completely trusted as he was of non-Italian descent, saying "Remember, he's not one of us".

An ambitious man, Frank Lenti never rose above the rank of prospect in Satan's Choice, causing him to leave in 1978 and join the Rebels.

In 1982, when Kirby started to testify against the Mafia figures who employed him as a hitman, his friend Frank Lenti fled to Italy where he lived for the next two years.

Frank Lenti founded a new club, called the Loners in 1984 in York Region after his return to Canada, recruiting mainly from his fellow Italian-Canadians.

Frank Lenti designed the "rather elaborate and bizarre" patch for his club featuring a half-werewolf, half-horned skull creature.

On 16 June 1993, Frank Lenti was approached by Walter "the Nurget" Stadnick, the president of the Canadian Hells Angels at a bikers convention in Wasaga Beach with an offer to have the Loners "patch over" to the Hells Angels.

Frank Lenti found Stadnick arrogant, noting that Stadnick had told him that two Loners were police informers, a report that was true, but grated with him as he felt that Stadnick was trying to control the Loners from afar.

Frank Lenti has been faithful to the outlaw code, serving prison sentences rather than accept offers of immunity from the Crown in exchange for testifying against other outlaw bikers, making him a figure of respect within the outlaw biker world.

Subsequently, Frank Lenti was expelled from his own club for the second time in 1994, and founded a new club, the Diablos Motorcycle Gang that lost a biker war later in 1995 against the Loners.

Langton wrote that Frank Lenti was expelled for stealing from his club while Lavinge stated that his expulsion was due to him throwing a "temper tantrum" too many.

On 25 August 1995, Frank Lenti was badly wounded by a bomb planted in his car, which gave him the unflattering epithet of "the half-assed biker" as he lost one of his buttocks.

Frank Lenti was lucky to survive the car bombing, but ended up facing weapons charges afterwards as the Toronto police discovered a handgun and a loaded machinegun in his car.

Ever since the 1995 bombing, Frank Lenti has walked with a limp and has often had to use a cane.

However, Fullanger was annoyed when Frank Lenti called the Bandidos a biker gang rather than a club.

When Salerno gave himself a bastone tattoo, which Frank Lenti saw as his own personal mark, Frank Lenti proceeded to beat up Salerno and told him to have the tattoo covered up.

When Frank Lenti found insulting comments about himself on the Bandidos website, he discovered that the IP address of the poster was located in an area where Salerno lived, which led him to accuse Salerno of posting the comments.

When Michael Sandham of Winnipeg joined the Bandidos in 2004, Frank Lenti was highly suspicious of him, saying he kept hearing rumors that Sandham used to be a policeman and that he had been rejected by the Outlaws for that reason, and assigned the Bandido national sergeant-at-arms Wayne Kellestine to investigate him.

Frank Lenti further noted that Sandham had no tattoos, which was unusual as almost all outlaw bikers have many tattoos on their bodies, his demeanor was like that of a policeman doing a very clumsy impression of an outlaw biker, and that Sandham seemed like the sort of man who would have "sucked up" to the high school bully rather than stand up for himself.

In November 2004, Frank Lenti quit the Bandidos, saying that Muscedere was addicted to cocaine and Kellestine was insane, and he was tired of dealing with both of them.

Unlike Glenn "Wongway" Atkinson, who was beaten bloody by Muscedere and Kellestine, Frank Lenti was not beaten when he turned in his jacket with the Bandido patch as he had a fearsome reputation as a fighter who was known for his habit of gouging out the eyes of his enemies.

Frank Lenti almost provoked a fight with Muscedere, whom he no longer respected, and only the intervention of others prevented the two men from coming to blows.

Frank Lenti was a living legend within Ontario outlaw biker circles and his resignation was a great blow to the already waning prestige of the club.

The Hells Angels considered making an offer to Lenti with the notes for November 2004 Central Canada committee reading: "Vote on Frank issue was Yes 72 No 69 did not pass".

Frank Lenti attempted to keep the Bandidos operating in Canada after the Shedden massacre.

On 24 May 2006, Frank Lenti rejoined the Bandidos and started to push aside both Sandham and his rival Pierre "Carlito" Aragon who were both competing to be national president.

Frank Lenti had one of his associates send Sandham an email saying it was time for the Canadian Bandidos "to stop looking like assholes in front of the USA and get along", meaning that Sandham should step aside to allow Frank Lenti to run the Canadian Bandidos.

However, Frank Lenti was a living legend within Canadian outlaw biker circles with close links to the Mafia and a habit of gouging out the eyes of his enemies, and Sandham was so utterly terrified of him that he agreed to stop calling himself president of Bandidos Canada, and allow Frank Lenti that honor.

Frank Lenti, who remained true to the outlaw biker code, refused an offer of police protection when informed of the alleged plot, but he did start carrying around a handgun, saying he would get the Bandidos "off the ground" after the massacre.

Shortly after midnight on 2 December 2006, four Hells Angels showed up at the Club Pro Adult Entertainment strip club and bar in Vaughan, where Frank Lenti worked as a security guard and bouncer.

The Angels confronted Frank Lenti and threatened him, causing him to go to the lobby where the lighting was better and a security camera captured everything that ensured.

The video footage showed that Frank Lenti was seeking to calm down the angry Angels while Buchanan was set on escalating the situation.

Frank Lenti, believing the Angels had come to kill him, was recorded by the security cameras as having his "right arm slipped behind his back, in a smooth, almost imperceptible movement" to pull out his handgun.

Frank Lenti opened fire, wounding one Angel, Verrelli, and killing Buchanan, while the other two Angels ran away with Desroche found fearfully hiding in the janitor's closet.

Frank Lenti stated he believed that Buchanan had a gun, but none was found on his corpse.

Frank Lenti turned himself in to the police the next day, and told Detective Angelo DeLorenzi that he had gone to the lobby of Club Pro Adult Entertainment to have the confrontation recorded by the security cameras, saying he was not looking for trouble.

Frank Lenti's statement went on to ask that all Canadian Bandidos mail their jackets with the Bandido patch at once to an address in Texas.

The senior Frank Lenti, who was in jail at the time awaiting murder charges for killing Buchanan, stated: ""I had a lot of fun but in the end you end up in a place like this.

The assassin's gun jammed after the first shot while Frank Lenti made a motion as if he was reaching to pull out a gun, causing the gunman to run away.

Frank Lenti stated he planned to retire from outlaw biking soon, but still wore in public a jacket with the word "Criminal" written on the back.