Formed in 1971 by immigrants from Taiwan and Hong Kong, the gang was affiliated with the On Leong Tong.
Their activities included extortion, kidnapping, murder, racketeering, drug trafficking and illegal gambling.
Wing Yeung Chan (born Jan 6, 1945) was president of On Leong Tong and for a decade the leader of the Ghost Shadows.
[4][5] Shui Ping Wu (born 1956), also known as Applehead (pronounced Apo with silent-L), was one of the original founders of Ghost Shadows and a leader of breakaway factions of Ghost Shadows[6] Bayard Boys during the late 1970s, up to his indictments on RICO statutes in the mid-1980s.
In 1977, Wu was charged with four others for extorting money from a restaurant employee in Montgomery County, MD.