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Former Hells Angel Maurice (Mom) Boucher admitted on Tuesday that he hatched a plot to kill one of the few criminals in Quebec who can claim to be his equal in terms of notoriety.

Boucher, 64, pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Raynald Desjardins, a well known leader in the Montreal Mafia who played a leading role in a conspiracy to kill Mafioso Salvatore Montagna back in 2011. Boucher — who was behind bars when the plot was hatched in 2015 and is still serving life sentences for issuing orders that led to the deaths of two provincial prison guards and the attempted murder of another in 1997 — planned to kill Desjardins after Desjardins admitted to plotting to kill Montagna.

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During a hearing at the Gouin courthouse, Boucher had to shout “guilty!” when Justice Éric Downs asked him to confirm that he was pleading guilty to the conspiracy. This was because a microphone in the enclosed prisoner’s dock where Boucher was seated was not on when he first responded to Downs’s question. The former biker’s hair has gone completely grey and he has gained considerable weight since the 1990s, when he used to control a multi-million dollar drug trafficking empire and wasn’t shy to show off his leather jacket with the Hells Angels infamous death-head logo on the back.