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Ex-Hells Angels leader shows courtroom support for Trump



A former biker gang member who served prison time for drugs was among Donald Trump's entourage of supporters at court on Monday.

Chuck Zito, who helped found the New York Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels in the early 1980s, joined the former president's legal adviser Boris Epshteyn and former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who each have criminal records of their own, reported the New York Times.

Zito served six years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony drug count in 1986 and left the outlaw gang shortly after his release, and he went to Hollywood to work as a stuntman and actor, starring most prominently as Chucky “The Enforcer” Pancamo in the HBO prison drama “Oz.”

The Hells Angels have been described by the Department of Justice as a criminal enterprise and linked to the Gambino crime family, and Zito was one of the only non-Mafia members to attend the funeral for that mob group's former leader John Gotti.

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Epshteyn has been indicted in in Arizona for his role in a scheme to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Arizona, and Kerik served a prison term for tax-related charges and was later pardoned by the former president.

Law professor Alan Dershowitz and former intelligence official Kash Patel also attended Trump's trial, along with Republican House members Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Mary Miller of Illinois and Keith Self of Texas.

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