Jamie Flanz, better known as "Goldberg", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre.
20 Facts About Jamie Flanz
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Leonard Jamie Flanz was a successful lawyer specializing in corporate and bankruptcy law.
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Jamie Flanz was married to Allison Harnett, by whom he had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce.
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Jamie Flanz worked part-time as a bouncer in a bar in Keswick, through his reasons for doing were not financial, but because he enjoyed being able to socialize with the bar's patrons.
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In early 2005, Jamie Flanz joined the Bandidos, being sponsored by his friend Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli.
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Jamie Flanz served as a sort of bank for his fellow Bandidos, as the well-off Jamie Flanz was always lending money to his fellow Bandidos.
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Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, described Jamie Flanz as a pseudo-gangster who was "only playing tough", writing that he was a man who was seeking love in a very misguided way, unlike some of the other members of the Toronto chapter like Luis "Chopper" Raposo who were hardened career criminals.
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Jamie Flanz shaved his head bald and grew up a goatee beard to make himself look an outlaw biker.
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In late 2005, Jamie Flanz was promoted up to being a "prospect".
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Jamie Flanz wanted to be promoted up the Bandido ranks and was willing to engage in any action that allow him to be promoted.
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When Douse arrived at Jamie Flanz's townhouse on the evening of 6 December 2005, he was the subject of racist abuse as he was a black man whom Acorn was angry with because of his relationship with a white woman, whom he was selling cocaine to.
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Jamie Flanz was not present at the time of the murder, but did not report the crime when he returned home and helped destroy evidence by washing away the blood in his basement.
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Jamie Flanz was angry that the bikers had murdered a man in his townhouse, all the more so because Douse had arrived at his townhouse via a taxi, but chose not to report the crime out of his desire to be promoted up the ranks.
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The Bandidos national sergeant-at-arms, Wayne "Weiner" Kellestine, is an ardent Nazi and hated Jamie Flanz for being Jewish.
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Kellestine argued that because Acorn had been arrested for the Douse killing while Jamie Flanz was still free that he must be an informer.
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Jamie Flanz kept saying he now realized that his children were what really mattered to him.
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Jamie Flanz was ordered to sit in the automobile of Trotta while Sandham fired a shot at point-blank range at his face.
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Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz read out a eulogy at the funeral written by Jamie Flanz's sister, Jennifer, that argued through Jamie Flanz had made an ill-informed decision in joining the Bandidos that he was a good man.
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At the trial, Jamie Flanz was named as one of those involved in the murder which ended the accused making plea bargains.
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Caine accused Jamie Flanz of stealing a bag full of cocaine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Hells Angels, who supposedly forced Kellestine to murder the others in revenge.