71 Facts About Scott Steinert

Scott Steinert was an American outlaw biker and gangster who was a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Scott Steinert is generally regarded as the man behind the 9 August 1995 car bomb which accidentally killed 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers during the Hells Angels' war against the Rock Machine.

Scott Steinert's father was a senior executive with the Beloit Corporation and in 1970 he was appointed to a position with the Montreal office of the corporation.

Scott Steinert spent the rest of his youth growing up in Montreal.

Scott Steinert came from a loving home and was spoiled by his upper-class parents.

Scott Steinert was considered to be an intelligent student, but not one who was academically inclined; he was a badly behaved child who was frequently in trouble with his teachers.

At the age of 16, Scott Steinert started to smoke hashish and was abusing LSD.

Scott Steinert dropped out of school at the age of 18, was expelled by his parents owing to his substance abuse, and moved to Vancouver.

In British Columbia, Scott Steinert lived on welfare while working as a drug dealer, leading to a Corrections Canada report to note: "In this way he was fully able to live his hedonist and marginal lifestyle".

In 1985, Scott Steinert returned to Quebec and was arrested in October 1985 in Sorel for selling two kilograms of PCP to an undercover Mountie.

In December 1985, Scott Steinert pleaded guilty in exchange for not being deported to the United States and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Scott Steinert's parents had moved back to the United States by this point, but Scott Steinert moved in with his French-Canadian girlfriend.

Scott Steinert founded an insulating business with money borrowed from his parents.

Scott Steinert enjoys going to the movies, downhill skiing and playing football during the summer months.

In 1988, Scott Steinert was charged with acting as an enforcer for a loan shark.

Scott Steinert was sentenced to 10 months in prison and was free again in the middle of 1989.

Prison officials noted that Scott Steinert had an "elastic morality" and a "pronounced taste for luxury".

Fluently bilingual in both French and English, Scott Steinert was described by the journalist Jerry Langton as being "utterly charming" when he wanted to be.

Scott Steinert had an exceptionally long criminal record with numerous convictions for assault, uttering death threats and narcotics possession.

Detective Benoit Roberge of the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal stated: "Scott Steinert started off low, but he gained a lot of power as he got heavily involved in the biker war".

Unusually, Scott Steinert skipped the "hang-around" stage in the Hells Angels and entered as a "prospect".

However, Scott Steinert was one of the top "earners" in the Hells Angels and an expert bomb-maker.

Kane reported in 1994 to his RCMP handlers that Scott Steinert had a certain "star quality", and that he thought Scott Steinert would be a "full patch" member within a year or so.

Scott Steinert had become the leading rival to the Hells Angels national president, Walter "Nurget" Stadnick, and made no secret of his belief that he would be a better national president.

Kane reported to his RCMP handlers that Scott Steinert had unfriendly relations with Stadnick and his deputy, David "Wolf" Carroll.

Kane reported that Scott Steinert was already the leader of his faction within the Hells Angels and that friendship with Richard gave more influence than his rank as a "prospect" would suggest.

Kane reported in November 1994 that Scott Steinert had become the right-hand man to Maurice "Mom" Boucher and was buying up C-4 explosives to make bombs.

Kane reported that Scott Steinert had purchased twenty pounds of C4 explosives and had assembled a team of bomb-makers led by Patrick Lambert.

In late November 1994, Scott Steinert had 10 bombs planted around Montreal with the aim of killing Rock Machine members, but none of the bombs exploded due to faulty detonators.

Kane described Scott Steinert as being a very aggressive bully who was completely ruthless in his willingness to win the Quebec biker war for the Hells Angels.

Kane stated to his police handlers that Scott Steinert planned to move to Ontario once he received a "full patch" to start the first Hells Angels chapter in that province.

Kane's reports to his RCMP handlers stressed that Scott Steinert had a most belligerent and unpleasant personality.

Scott Steinert served as Boucher's favorite Hells Angel as he made more money than any of the other Angels in Montreal.

Scott Steinert often mocked his rival David "Wolf" Carroll-whose personality was much like his own-boasting that he made more money than him, and Kane reported that the two men hated each other.

The journalists Julien Sher and William Marsden wrote the feud between Carroll and Scott Steinert was like "the twisting schemes of ambitious and sometimes psychotic medieval princes".

The Canadian criminologist Steven Schnedier wrote that Scott Steinert was an ambitious psychopath who was one of the most dangerous men in the Hells Angels.

Scott Steinert was in charge of building bombs, personally murdered members of the Rock Machine and had purchased aerial photographs of Montreal to better help plan his assassinations.

Kane reported that Scott Steinert was supplying strippers all over Canada and the West Indies.

Kane reported that the attractive French-Canadian strippers he was recruiting had attracted the attention of the New York Mafia and that a Mafia "soldier" from New York had contacted Scott Steinert to recruit strippers for a Mafia-owned club in the Dominican Republic.

Kane concluded his report that Scott Steinert was willing to recruit strippers, but only for a cut of the profits from the club, which he used as an example of Scott Steinert's audacity and greed as he did not defer to the Mafia at all.

In January 1995, Kane reported that Scott Steinert was driving around Montreal looking for the Rock Machine leader Paul "Sasquatch" Porter with the aim of killing him.

Likewise, Scott Steinert started selling drugs in western Montreal, which Carroll regarded as his area to sell drugs.

Unlike Carroll, Scott Steinert went to bed early to start work promptly in the morning, which endeared him to Boucher, who respected Scott Steinert for his work ethic and ability to make consistently large profits.

In March 1995, when Carroll ordered Kane to drive him to Halifax, Scott Steinert refused to allow it, which almost caused a brawl between the two men.

Kane reported to his RCMP handlers that he thought that Stadnick and Carroll were the "past" of the Hells Angels while Scott Steinert was the "future".

In one of his reports, Kane wrote that Scott Steinert had told him that he was making $100,000 per month from his cocaine sales in northern Ontario.

Scott Steinert told Kane that he was planning to go to Jamaica to recruit criminals for a black street gang he planned to found to challenge Master 13, a black street gang allied with the Rock Machine.

In May 1995, when Kane's wife, Josee gave birth to his son, Guillaume, he asked Scott Steinert to be his child's godfather.

In July 1995, Scott Steinert beat up the doorman to a Montreal nightclub who had refused him admission for wearing his Hells Angels colours.

In 1995, Kane reported that Scott Steinert was still an American citizen, leading for the Canadian government to issue a deportation order against him.

Kane reported that Scott Steinert had ordered remote-controlled bombs from the bomb-maker Patrick Lambert in early August 1995.

Kane stated: "Scott Steinert was really excited and bragging that he was really going to do something that would be 'rock 'n' roll'".

Scott Steinert asked some of his crew what they thought of the bombing.

Scott Steinert complained that the "cocaine drought" as it was known had caused him to fill his orders in northern Ontario and that his reputation had suffered.

Scott Steinert was the biggest pimp in Montreal, owning the Sensations escort service, whose office in Montreal was destroyed in a case of arson in August 1996 by the Rock Machine.

Scott Steinert used the information from his stripper spies to send out representatives to contract the local criminal element to assess their abilities.

Sanger wrote that Scott Steinert was "cocky and pigheaded by nature", which was made worse by the "roid rage" caused by his gross steroid abuse.

Scott Steinert was a friend of Paolo "Paul" Cotroni, son of Cotroni crime family boss Frank Cotroni.

Scott Steinert came to be angry about being excluded from the Nomad chapter, and wanted to defend the "honor" of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter.

Kane reported that Scott Steinert had "heard enough from the Nomads about the Montreal chapter being a bunch of goofs who were scared of taking action".

Scott Steinert created his "group of five" as a parallel organization within the Hells Angels that was intended to challenge the power of the elite Nomad chapter.

In October 1996, Scott Steinert formalized his "group of five" as an official group within the Hells Angels that sought to challenge the elite Nomad chapter.

Scott Steinert wanted Kane to pay him $100,000 to be a pret-noms in exchange for being allowed to live in the Lavigeur mansion.

In November 1996, Scott Steinert received his deportation order to the United States.

Scott Steinert ended his relationship with his French-Canadian common-law wife, by whom he had fathered a child by, to start dating another French-Canadian woman from a wealthy family whose parents owned a restaurant popular with the Hells Angels.

Scott Steinert finally managed to void his deportation order by marrying a Canadian woman in late 1996.

Scott Steinert had fathered a child by his bride, which his lawyers used to argue that it would be inhumane to send him back to the United States.

In late 1996, Scott Steinert was contacted by a Montreal filmmaker, Stephane Chouinard, about using the Lavigeur mansion to make a pornographic film.

Besides the marriage ceremony at the Lavigueur mansion, Scott Steinert used the Lavigueur mansion to make in the summer of 1997 a pornographic film entitled The Babe Angel directed by Chouinard, starring himself, his wife and 9 of his prostitutes.

Kane, who was anxious to direct attention away from himself, strongly encouraged Carroll along this line of thinking, saying Scott Steinert must be a police informer inside the Angels.

Magnussen's corpse was discovered floating in the St Lawrence in May 1998 while Scott Steinert's corpse was discovered on 15 April 1999.