[1] In 2019, he told the National Parole Board: "I started selling weed when I was a kid at my mother's house...I wanted to go back to Montreal and my mom wasn't having it, so I was trying to be difficult".
[2] When he was 15, his mother grew tired him of selling marijuana out of her house, and called the police, leading to his first criminal conviction.
[5] Maloney used the insurance payments relating to his accident to invest in condos and in a fertilizer manufacturing company, both of which paid off handsomely.
[6] Maloney purchased luxury condos on Nuns' Island and in the West End of Vancouver along with a farm in North Glengarry.
[8] In 2019, Maloney told the Parole Board: "I just happen to be Irish...I don't view myself as that [a West End Gang member].
[14] On 26 September 2012, one of Maloney's deputies, Mihale Leventis, was observed by the police sitting in a Montreal bar along with Frédéric Lavoie of the Wolfpack and another man where the discussion concerned plans to buy cocaine in Colombia and sell it in Greece and Canada and with gossip about internal developments in the Rizzuto family and the Hells Angels.
[15] Maloney was considered to be a gangster by Canada Revenue Agency who charged that he owed $3.3 million in unpaid taxes on his illegal income.
[4] Found inside of Maloney's condo on Nuns' Islands were $1.5 million in cash along with evidence that he ordered the armed robbery of a blasting company in Sainte-Sophie in August 2011 to steal dynamite.
[16] Also found inside of Maloney's condo were hundreds of guns, 1, 475 sticks of dynamite, two pounds of C-4 explosives and remote controls for setting off the C-4.
[17] In December 2013, in a plea bargain with the Crown, Maloney pleaded guilty to the assault charges in exchange for a lesser prison sentence.
[18] On 15 April 2016, Justice James Brunton of the Quebec Superior Count ruled in regard to Maloney's lawsuit: "Wheelchair-bound inmates are always detained in the health sector for security reasons.
[19] Bruton ruled that Maloney was in part a victim of being held in the hospital wing where many of the inmates suffered from "psychological" disorders that had a negative impact on his mental health.
[19] In 2016, Maloney was sued by the family of Richard ‘Acid’ Adams, a Mohawk marijuana smuggler on the Akwesasne reserve who vanished on 5 July 2009 and has not been seen or heard from since.
[17] Maloney's claim to the National Parole Board that he had purchased the weapons and explosives to keep them out of the hands of criminals was dismissed as "stretches the bounds of credibility".
[1] Maloney refused to explain to his parole officer who was an individual known as “Honda Prelude Gas Kid” was that he was always texting and wheeled himself out of the meeting in anger.