[1] The journalist Yves Lavigne wrote in 1999 about: "...that social butterfly of the biker underworld, the promiscuous Frank Lenti, who over twenty years wore the colors of nearly half a dozen Toronto gangs.
[1] In 1982, when Kirby started to testify against the Mafia figures who employed him as a hitman, his friend Lenti fled to Italy where he lived for the next two years.
Langton wrote that Lenti was also personally successful in two "industries bikers tend to admire-a stripper/escort talent agency and a tow truck firm".
[16] Langton wrote that Lenti was expelled for stealing from his club while Lavinge stated that his expulsion was due to him throwing a "temper tantrum" too many.
[16] On 25 August 1995, 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.
[20] Lenti told detective Angelo DeLorenzi about the loaded submachine gun and 9-millimetre handgun found in the ruins of his car: "I was using them for my kinda people.
[19] In an interview in 2019, Lenti claimed that the Rizzuto family of Montreal tried to recruit him in the 1990s, an offer he declined on the basis that he was an outlaw biker, not a Mafiosi.
[3] In the fall of 2002 Lenti joined the Canadian Bandidos, which they regarded as a gain as he was a more experienced outlaw biker than the national president Giovanni "John the Boxer" Muscedere.
[26] At a meeting at Fullager's house, Kriarakis was taken to task for his violation of the outlaw biker code, which just publicly humiliated the Toronto Bandido chapter.
[27] An outlaw biker from Edmonton, Joe "Crazy House" Morin of the Rebels, who was considering "patching over" to join the Bandidos expressed much doubt after the Kriarakis incident, saying the only members of the Toronto chapter who impressed him were Atkinson and Lenti.
[33] 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.
[34] 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".
[35] On 24 May 2006, 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.
[38] Sandham liked to act the tough guy, but Edwards wrote: "As it turned out, all anyone really had to do was tell him to get lost in an unfriendly tone of voice, and he would have disappeared.
[39] Gault was a career criminal who specialized in cheating seniors out of their life savings and who once bit off the ear of a man in a bar fight.
[41] 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.
[44] In the outlaw biker subculture, the office of sergeant-at-arms is generally held by the toughest member in a chapter, and Buchanan had been appointed to that position on the account of his brutality, strength and cruelty.
"[47] 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.
[50] 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.
[55] Jessi Lenti has no criminal record and Armand La Barge, the police chief of York Region, told Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent for the Toronto Star: ""To the best of our knowledge, he (Jessi Lenti) has never been a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang and to the best of our knowledge, he has never been a member of an organized crime group or entity either".
[55] The younger Lenti stated that it had been his dream since his boyhood to be a soldier and what the Army was saying in rejecting his application was: "What they're trying to tell me is, `We don't want you to do good.
[56] At the same time, the video footage of the confrontation at Club Pro Adult Entertainment showed that Buchanan was the aggressor, which gave Lenti's lawyers a strong case for self-defense on the part of their client, causing the Crown to drop the murder charges and to settle for a plea bargain.
[57] Edwards has charged that the professional con-man Gault had manufactured the alleged murder plot so he could collect a $1 million payment from the Crown.
[57] On January 18, 2009, Akleh and Stephenson were acquitted of conspiring to murder Lenti with the jury ruling that Crown's case rested entirely on the unreliable word of Gault.
[59] After his release from prison in 2014, Lenti was the object of an assassination attempt at his Vaughan home on 20 December 2016 when a shot was fired at him from a would-be-killer on his driveway.
[3] 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.