[3] The majority of the people in Ontario in 1967 were Protestants of British descent, and Parente stood out in the Hamilton chapter on the account of his Italian heritage, which he sought to turn to his advantage.
It was a profession that put him head-to-head with Hamilton's street toughs and members of such esteemed local organizations as the Ball-Peen Hammer Boys.
[6] Detective Sergeant John Harris, a Hamilton policeman who first encountered Parente in 1972, stated: "Unlike a lot of guys, as soon as we started noticing him in Satan's Choice, he'd talk to us.
[3] Parente developed a negative view of most policemen, calling them "bags of shit", but expressed much respect for Harris, despite him being on the other side of the law.
[10] In 1969, MacLeod raided the clubhouse of the Hamilton chapter, becoming involved in a tense confrontation with Parente and eight other bikers that only ended when police back-up arrived.
[15] The journalists Julien Sher and William Marsden called Parente the "seemingly invincible leader" of the Outlaws, who never lost a fight.
[16] One piece of jewelry Parente wore had the initials GLGC (Good-Looking Guys Club), which is an informal name the Outlaws use to describe themselves.
[26] On 17 July 1983, two Hells Angels from Montreal, Michel "Jinx" Genest and Jean-Marc Nadeau, went via bus to Vancouver to attend the planned ceremony.
[26] Parente was riding on Highway 17 outside of North Bay when he noticed a jacket bearing the Hells Angels' patch pressed against the window of the bus.
[30] Bannister's was owned by Rinaldo Ticchiarelli and Louis Acciaroli, two cocaine dealers who used the establishment as a place to launder money.
[32] The Lewis brothers were petty criminals who worked as general laborers by day and by night made their living by extorting money via threats and violence.
[35] Brian Lewis accidentally killed himself at a party when he was quite intoxicated and pointed his handgun at his head, saying "you wanna know what I'm going to do to Mike the Wop?
[35] On 28 November 1992, Parente's then girlfriend, Linda DeMaria, was the target of an assassination attempt; the police believe that the bullets fired at her might have been meant for him.
[44] On 29 April 1996, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) launched Project Charlie, a crackdown on the Outlaws and a warrant was issued for Parente's arrest.
[42] As part of Project Charlie, nine other members of the St. Catharines chapter were charged with various counts relating to narcotics, prostitution, and attempted murder.
[39] On 10 July 1996, Parente was attacked in the Hamilton-Wentworth Jail by an inmate just arrived from Montreal who assaulted him with a crude home-made knife fashioned out of a tooth brush.
[48] The journalists Julian Sher and William Marsden wrote that Manitoba was crucial because it was "the axis of distribution for any drugs moving east and west in the country".
[50] On 29 December 2000, in a much publicized ceremony, most of the Ontario outlaw biker gangs such as Satan's Choice, the Vagabonds, the Lobos, the Last Chance, the Para-Dice Riders and some of the Loners travelled to Hells Angels' "mother chapter" clubhouse in Sorel, just south of Montreal to join the Hells Angels, making them at one stroke the dominant outlaw biker club in Ontario.
[55] After his arrest, the journalist Colin Freeze reported: "The Outlaws motorcycle club is big business, a culture of crime and killing that insists on Harley-Davidsons, limits membership to whites and marks and trades women like cattle".
[57] Believing that case had already been decided, Maguire did not call many witnesses at the preliminary hearing to avoid exposing them to questions from Parente's lawyer, Jack Pinkofsky.
"[59] At the hearing, Justice Lynda Templeton ruled in favor of Pinkofsky, stating: "For a presiding judge in an ongoing preliminary inquiry to have unnecessarily called the Crown into chambers, and to have proceeded to discuss the case to any extent at all in the absence of opposing counsel was, in my view, entirely inappropriate.
[63] Parente's girlfriend, Nadia Kosta and her friend Silvana DiMartino, lost their security clearances at the Pearson Airport in Toronto, meaning that they were in effect fired from their jobs as passenger-information representatives.
[64] Kosta lost her security clearance because she posted bail for Parente, leading to the airport to declare her a person of bad character.
[65] DiMartino lost her security clearance because she had was a friend of Parente and Kosta and was found to have a deck of playing cards with the logo "Support Your Local Outlaws".
'"[66] By October 2008, sixteen of the Outlaws arrested had pleaded guilty to being members of a criminal organization with almost all the others also made plea bargains in exchange for reduced sentences.
[55] In February 2005, the president of Woodstock Outlaws chapter and national vice-president, Kevin Legere, pleaded guilty for a reduced sentence.
[68] Parente felt much disgust with the willingness of his fellow Outlaws to make plea bargains, feeling that the other members were being very selfish in testifying for the Crown in order to reduce their sentences.
[63] Through Parente and Ferreira had the charges against them dropped in 2009, Project Retire crippled the Outlaws in Ontario as the club was only a shadow of its former self with almost all of its members being convicted.
[73] Langton described Parente as a man standing 6'0 tall with a head shaven completely bald, a Fu Manchu mustache and a face bearing the scars of the many fights he has been in over the years.
[75] In terms of personality, Langton described Parente as being alike to the persona projected by the actor Joe Pesci as "...he gave off a similar but far less unctuous vibe...