The Hells Angels are allied with numerous smaller motorcycle gangs β such as the Devils Diciples , [ 7 ] the Diablos , [ 7 ] El Forastero , [ 7 ] the Galloping Goose , [ 8 ] the Hessians , [ 1 ] the Iron Horsemen , [ 9 ] the Red Devils , [ 10 ] the Sons of Silence , [ 1 ] and the Warlocks [ 11 ] β and have associated in criminal ventures with the Buffalo , [ 1 ] Cleveland , [ 1 ] Gambino , [ 1 ] Genovese , [ 1 ] Los Angeles , [ 12 ] Patriarca , [ 13 ] and San Jose [ 12 ] crime families, as well as the Aryan Brotherhood , [ 14 ] the Mexican Mafia , [ 15 ] and the Nazi Lowriders.
Anchorage Hells Angels chapter sergeant-at-arms Anthony "Tony Truth" Tait volunteered to become a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI in , and he provided the government with detailed information on the club's organization and criminal activities β such as drugs and explosives trafficking β for two years.
Ten Hells Angels from California and Alaska, including Hubert and Pailing, were extradited to Louisville, Kentucky to face charges of conspiring to transport firearms and explosives across state lines in order to kill members of the Outlaws in retaliation for the death of John Cleave Webb, the previous Anchorage Hells Angels president who was fatally shot by two Outlaws outside a saloon in Jefferson County, Kentucky on August 12, Protzman were convicted of the misdemeanor charge of converting a government intelligence manual for their use, while Pailing and four other Alaskan Angels were acquitted.
District Court for the District of Nevada , stemmed from the River Run riot β a conflict between the Hells Angels and the Mongols on April 27, , which left three bikers dead in Laughlin, Nevada β and followed a twenty-month ATF investigation of the club. Hells Angels member James William Leffel was convicted of first-degree assault for stabbing a man named Jens Schurig in the thigh, opening his femoral artery, outside a bar in Anchorage after Schurig allegedly denigrated Leffel's motorcycle.
On August 3, , Michael "Steak Knife" Staton was kidnapped and taken to a duplex in Wasilla where he was tortured, beaten and killed by members of the s β a white supremacist prison gang to which he belonged β after he was accused of stealing drugs and " colors " from Craig "Oakie" King, a Hells Angels member and s associate.
