George Kriarakis (1978 – 7 April 2006) was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the last national secretary of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Canada and was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006.
[5] 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.
[6] During the Taste of the Danforth festival in Toronto in August 2004, Atkinson met Kriarakis to tell him he was planning on leaving the Bandidos, saying that the national president Giovanni Muscedere had lost contact with reality, being short-sighted and ill-tempered; the national sergeant-at-arms Wayne "Wiener" Kellestine was dangerous, and the new Winnipeg chapter president Michael "Taz" Sandham seemed like a shady character.
[8] Kriarakis felt a sense of loyalty plus he wanted to recover the $5,000 he lent another member, Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli to help him buy a motorcycle.
[9] Kriarakis's wife Diane whom he married in 2005 often pressed him to quit the Bandidos, and he himself talked frequently of his desire to leave the club, but he stayed out of loyalty to his biker "brothers".
[10] Kriarakis refused the demand to return his Bandidos patches to their world headquarters in Houston, Texas, writing on various Bandidos-related websites and forums that "Ontario is standing tall".
[10] In an email to the Bandidos American national secretary, William Sartelle, Kriarakis wrote "Give us a fair and reasonable chance".
[11] A reprieve of sorts was won for the "no surrender crew" when Kriarakis, who had no criminal record, was able to visit Houston and made a good impression.
[13] In early April 2006, Wayne Kellestine, the sergeant-at-arms of the Bandidos, accused Jamie "Goldberg" Flanz of being a police informer and demanded a "church" (mandatory meeting) at his farmhouse outside of Iona Station to discuss his allegations.
[18] As both Kellestine and Sandham ranted about their various grievances, Kriarakis started to pray in Greek while Sinopoli kept crying and saying that he did not want to die.
[18] Another member of the "no-surrender crew", Frank "the Bammer" Salerno told both Sinopoli and Kriarakis to stop their complaints, saying: "We're bikers.
due to a court some weeks later and unaware that the latter was wearing a wire for the police, said he was surprised by how much Kriarakis cried as he was marched out to be shot, saying he expected a fellow outlaw biker to be tougher.
[28] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, agreed with her, writing the Bandidos had "grandiose rituals and overblown mythology" that were "more the stuff of fantasy and macho escapism than reality" that strongly appealed to weak, insecure men.
[28] Edwards wrote that most of the victims of the massacre such as Kriarakis were the type of weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful.
[29] Edwards called Kriarakis a pseudo-gangster, saying he affected the "attitude" of being a gangster as he took to strutting around with his Bandidos patch on his bikers' vest as he thought that this made him powerful.