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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   Hells Angels boss Paul “Sasquatch” Porter is getting out of prison in   
   January, but his release will come with special conditions that he   
   regularly disclose all banking records to a parole officer to ensure his   
   income is from legitimate sources.   
      
   The Citizen has also learned that the parole board will forbid him from   
   associating with gang members until September 2014, when his sentence   
   for cocaine trafficking expires.   
      
   But it might not be hard for Porter, 50, to stay clear of the notorious   
   gang.   
      
   In a failed bid to win parole earlier this year, Porter told the parole   
   board that he wants out of the lucrative gang business for good and said   
   he intends to turn in his colours with “honour” so he’s not looking over   
   his shoulder in retirement.   
      
   It is not known if Porter has told the Hells Angels that he no longer   
   wants to be a member, let alone the president of its elite Ottawa-based   
   Ontario Nomads chapter.   
      
   Born in 1963, Paul Robert Porter is not your typical Hells Angel.   
      
   Nicknamed Sasquatch for his 6-7 frame that once carried close to 400   
   pounds, Porter was a founding member of the Rock Machine that waged a   
   Quebec biker war against the Hells Angels in the 1990s. That battle   
   claimed at least 150 lives, including innocent bystander Daniel   
   Desrochers, an 11-year-old boy killed while playing near a Jeep that was   
   blown up.   
      
   Porter was shot at twice by Hells Angels’ contract killers and when he   
   recalled it for the Citizen he was calm as he rolled up his sleeve,   
   showed the bullet wound and said: “It wasn’t my time to die.”   
      
   Porter was the most unlikely candidate to become president of the Nomads   
   chapter, but he secured the title in swift order by leading a mass   
   defection of rival bikers in 2001 to give the crime corporation its   
   first Ontario franchises in its then-60-year history.   
      
   The secret defection talks were held over lunch at an Italian eatery on   
   St. Laurent Blvd. in the city’s east end.   
      
   Because Porter has been a longtime biker gang leader, and because he has   
   a serious drugs and weapons record dating back to 1985, the parole board   
   said he has “ingrained criminal values”.   
      
   They denied him parole in the summer and even if they had released him   
   there would have been nowhere for him to go after three Ottawa halfway   
   houses said they wouldn’t take him.   
      
   His last conviction came in 2012, when he pleaded guilty for a cocaine   
   bust back in 2009. It was a quick, successful investigation by the   
   Ottawa police. They got a tip and pulled over his 1964 Cadillac de Ville   
   on Innes Road only to find nine ounces of cocaine in his girlfriend’s purse.   
      
   Porter owned up to it right away and said the 250 grams of coke in the   
   purse belonged to him and she knew nothing about it. Porter pleaded   
   guilty, and in exchange, charges against his girlfriend were withdrawn   
   and his vintage Cadillac returned.   
      
   At his failed bid for parole in June, Porter said he intended to retire   
   from the Hells Angels as long as membership of the chapter increased so   
   his exit didn’t force it to close.   
      
   Hells Angels bylaws require each chapter to have at least six members to   
   keep official status. The prison documents suggest Porter’s exit could   
   jeopardize the chapter’s membership requirement.   
      
   Porter, who has been working as a cleaner in prison, received a score on   
   an evaluation indicating he is a low risk to re-offend. He’s been a   
   model inmate with no institutional charges or security concerns,   
   according to his prison file.   
      
   Porter is scheduled to be released from prison on Jan. 6 and is expected   
   to return to Ottawa. Originally from Montreal, Porter headquartered his   
   chapter in Ottawa, a city he knew well after months-long stays at a safe   
   house in Vanier during the biker war.   
      
   His former associates who stayed with him in the safe house told the   
   Citizen they gained a lot of weight because they rarely went outside for   
   fear of being shot, and almost exclusively ate take-out food delivered   
   by underlings.   
      
   In police circles, Porter is known as an intelligent negotiator who   
   keeps a low profile. Some of his former criminal associates have told   
   the Citizen his biggest fear was ending up in prison. But his time in   
   prison has so far been unremarkable. The potential for trouble was   
   largely sorted out before he was assigned a cell, with prison officials   
   weeding out any inmates who might have been incompatible because of gang   
   affiliation.   
      
   Porter has told the parole board that his post-criminal life will   
   include running a towtruck company and repairing motorcycles on the side.   
      
   He once told the Citizen, over morning orange juice, that he makes an   
   honest living charging $50 an hour to fix motorcycles.   
      
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