45 Facts About Steven Gault

Steven Gault was born on 1973 and is a Canadian outlaw biker and police informer who played a key role in the Ontario Provincial Police's Project Tandem operation against the Hells Angels between 2005 and 2006.

In 2008, Steven Gault testified that he started working as a police informer in 1990 at the age of 17 as he became involved in various criminal activities while at the same time informing on his associates.

Steven Gault stated: "I was just providing information to them [the police] for money about drug dealing operations in the area".

Steven Gault was first convicted of a criminal offense at the age of 17.

Steven Gault became a member, together with several of his relatives of a nomadic band known variously as "the Travelers" or "the Wanderers" that operated in the rural areas of eastern Ontario that targeted elderly farmers by engaging in home renovation scams.

Steven Gault testified in 2008 that he felt justified in targeting elderly farmers "because they have a lot of money".

Steven Gault testified that knew what barns and homes he and his associates had worked on because the work done "was horrible".

About the ear-biting incident, Steven Gault stated: "It was a consensual bar fight".

In 1996, Steven Gault became involved with an 18-year-old woman named Linda Sebastiao, whom he started living with a month after they met and in 1997 he fathered a daughter by her.

Sebastiao alleges that Steven Gault did not allow her to have a driver's license and that he frequently beat her, once because the toilet paper did not roll in a manner pleasing to him.

Steven Gault was working on a house in Warsaw, Ontario when he met a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, William "Mr Bill" Lavoie, by chance and ending up befriending him.

Steven Gault joined Satan's Choice solely with the aim of selling information about the club to the police.

Steven Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, boasting about he how had bitten off a man's ear, and adopted as his biker name "Hannibal".

Steven Gault cultivated a bloodthirsty image, claiming that the ear-biting incident had left him with a taste for human blood.

Steven Gault's ex-wife recalled: "When we would make him steak for supper, his was just with spices, raw, not even on the grill for a little".

Steven Gault entered Satan's Choice as a "hang-around", the lowest level in an outlaw biker club and was promoted up to a "prospect", the second level in an outlaw biker club in late 2000.

On 29 December 2000, Satan's Choice "patched over" en masse to join the Hells Angels and in this way, Steven Gault became a Hells Angel.

In early 2002, Steven Gault became a "full patch" Hells Angel, the highest level in an outlaw biker club, making him a member of the Hells Angel elite.

In 2002, Steven Gault was given a speeding ticket by the Durham Region police constable Todd Dennis.

In October 2002, Steven Gault was convicted of uttering death threats while Dennis secured a restraining order forbidding Steven Gault from having contact with him and his family.

Sebastiao alleges that Steven Gault neglected his family in favor of partying and cocaine use, became more abusive and wanted to have an ex-girlfriend move in.

Steven Gault made aggressive use of the Angels' "arbitrations", denying the allegations and pressing for Akleh to be expelled instead.

Steven Gault convinced the other Angels in the "arbitrations" that he was not an informer and that Akleh was lying.

Steven Gault was the key informer behind what the police called Project Tandem under which Steven Gault was to wear a wire while conducting drug deals with various Hells Angels.

Project Tandem was supposed to last only six months, but instead went on for 18 months until September 2006 as Steven Gault collected more information than the police had expected about the Hells Angels.

Steven Gault was greatly disliked by his police handers, who felt he was the most unsavory of informers.

In 2005, Steven Gault bonded with Gerald "Skinny" Ward, the president of the Angels' Niagara chapter, during a motorcycle ride to Prince Edward Island, and having gained his trust, suggested he do business with him.

On 18 August 2005, Steven Gault visited Welland to meet Ward while wearing a wire and was recorded buying 1.1 kilograms of cocaine from Ward for $42,000 in cash.

One evening in April 2006, Steven Gault unexpectedly arrived at Guindon's house talking about a vague offer to pay him 5,000 dollars in exchange for some unspecified project that Steven Gault had planned.

Steven Gault is believed to have been the first full patch Hells Angel in Canada to wear a wire for the police.

Steven Gault attended Lavoie's funeral on 13 September 2006 and has repeatedly denied in court allegations that he said at the funeral: "He's never smelled better".

On 28 September 2006, two Hells Angels, Remond "Ray" Akleh of Ottawa and Mark Stephenson of Oshawa were charged with ordering Steven Gault to kill Frank Lenti, the national president of the Bandidos.

Steven Gault served as the star witness for the Crown in the various trials that resulted from Project Tandem in 2008 and 2009.

On 11 May 2008, Steven Gault served as a witness for the Crown at the double murder trial of James Boudreau in Coburg.

At the trial of Akleh and Stephenson in 2008 in Whitby, Akleh testified it was Steven Gault who approached him when he arrived unannounced at his Ottawa house about killing Lenti, stating he wanted nothing to do with the alleged murder plot or Steven Gault.

Steven Gault appeared to be very surprised to learn that Akleh was an informer, saying in the courtroom: "You've got to be kidding me".

Akleh testified he had become an informer out of fear of Steven Gault, saying that Steven Gault was harassing him and his family and making death threats.

Akleh stated that despite being a Hells Angel that he befriended Constable Denis as both men and their families were being harassed by Steven Gault, which led him to become an informer.

Unlike Steven Gault, Akleh did not receive any monetary compensation from the police for his information.

Orr called Steven Gault "the Wayne Gretzky of lying", saying in his closing comments to the jury that Steven Gault was a deeply dishonest man whose word could not be trusted.

Akleh further testified that his long-standing feud with Steven Gault made it very unlikely that he would try to recruit him as a hitman while Stephenson testified he had been feuding with Steven Gault ever since he suggested he was not intelligent enough to serve as the treasurer of the Oshawa chapter.

The fact that Steven Gault despite wearing a wire did not record either Akleh or Stephenson saying anything about wanting to kill Lenti was a further blow to his credibility; Steven Gault maintained that Akleh and Stephenson had indicated via hand gestures that they wanted him to kill Lenti.

On 12 April 2009, a television documentary about his life entitled Project Steven Gault aired as part of the television series Outlaw Bikers.

Steven Gault is living in witness protection under a pseudonym in an unknown location.

Sebastiao has stated that Steven Gault has refused to pay child support for their daughter and compensation and alleges he only offered her a one time payment of $200 to support their daughter despite being paid $1 million by the Ontario government.