RAT KILLER CONFESSIONS

Biker Whistleblower Spills Beans On Falling Out With Both Sides Of The Law

Eric "Rat Killer" Nadeau estimates that his inside information helped put
about 400 bikers behind bars.

Nadeau, a former criminal, infiltrated Montreal's biker gangs in 1991 after
spending seven months in prison on weapons charges. Since then, Montreal
cops paid him "about a million" for a dozen years of acting as a mole.

"I never sympathized with the bandits - they were all crooked, always doing
drugs," he says. "I was behind enemy lines. I did the job of a cop. I
signed contracts with [the police]. I risked my life for them. I played
with their kids. One time a controller held me in his arms and was crying.
Now they'll lose their jobs if they talk to me."

Nadeau says bikers are even less crazy about him. "They've tried to kill me
four times. I was lucky. Twice they shot at me but missed."

But now Nadeau and Montreal's finest have also fallen out, since, he says,
the police refused to pay him $75,000 of a $200,000 contract, claiming that
Nadeau was unwilling to testify in court.

Good Deal Gone Bad

Nadeau says he was willing to testify and - as with all his claims - says
he has videotapes, recorded phone conversations and written documents to
back him up. He notes that most of the bikers he was supposed to testify
against pled guilty anyway. "What's $75,000 when I saved them millions by
not having to go before a jury?" he asks. He's suing the Montreal police
for $316,000.

Relations with his longtime cop overlords further soured when St-Jerome
police visited his home looking for weapons. He says they didn't find any
weapons and even shook his hand as they left. But, a month later, he
received a subpeona to appear in court on weapons charges. Nadeau's name
and address then appeared on the court computer system, which, being public
information, made him easy pickings for a would-be biker assassin. His
lawyer has since won a court order to remove that information. Nadeau will
appear in court on May 30.

As a result of the mayhem, Nadeau, along with his wife and four children,
moved from motel to motel "11 times since June 2002 [when Projet Amigos,
the police anti-gang operation that netted dozens of Bandidos members,
wrapped up]. I haven't been outside for eight months."

Now Nadeau has penned a 250-page book, published by Les Editions des
Intouchables, slated for launch at the end of this month. Among his
allegations is that cops allowed a hitman to shoot biker Steve "Bull"
Bertrand three times at a restaurant at Parc and Bernard in March 2002,
even though they knew about the plan in advance. Bertrand survived.

Thanks to what Nadeau credits as his "good personality," he obtained
information by achieving the rare feat of befriending both warring biker
tribes - first the Hells Angels until he defected, in late winter 2001, to
their rival biker group the Bandidos, which absorbed the flailing Rock
Machine. Nadeau rose quickly up the depleted Bandidos ranks, eventually
becoming one of the club's national secretaries.

Nadeau had originally made a name for himself by founding the Scorpions, a
crime gang operating out of the Gay Village. In spite of his many years in
mondo biker, Nadeau says he never committed a violent crime, "except for
some fights." He sold stolen swag and delivered drugs. "Police told me not
to go too high in the gang because then I'd have to commit violent crimes."

All Business

Nadeau happily communicates details of his past as he revs up for his
upcoming civil and criminal court cases against police, who in turn are
less eager to share details of their relations with their former associate.
When asked about Nadeau, a Montreal police media rep replies that the
subject remains "delicate" and provided no further details, as the case is
going before the courts.

Nadeau, as his name would indicate, has no love for informants and rejects
the notion that he was a rat. "I'm a small business. I'm an information
service, a spy. I did it for the pleasure and the money. And it was good
money."

In spite of his differences with the cops, Nadeau feels that police could
use his information to put countless more bikers in prison for a long time.
"I know 80 per cent of who killed who," he boasts.