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member of Quebec's Hell's Angels who killed a government witness in 1993 will be sentenced today.Reports say Richard Vallée has only expressed remorse that the victim, a witness who was about to testify against him, was driving a classic sports car when he blew him up. After a career marked by drugs, death plots, and unlikely prison escapes, Vallée will appear in a New York courtroom today to find out if he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars.Vallée's victim was known as the only person who could possibly identify him in a cross-border cocaine smuggling conspiracy.Richard Vallée, once a leading member of Quebec's Hells Angels, expressed some remorse for killing a government witness about to testify against him - he was sorry that his victim was driving a classic Porsche sports car when he blew him up in 1993. After a career marked by drugs, death plots, surprise acquittals and unlikely prison escapes, Vallée will stand today in a New York courtroom to learn wh...

"You have to go bother these people for your money," heard telling a subordinate. "Rough them up a little. Tell them 'You're a f---ing stiff' … Crack a face. F--- them up. Don't you do it, send a f---ing kid to rough them up, a f---ing joke." Joey Vallaro so many people want him killed. Otherwise he could make a killing himself on the speakers' circuit with his story of how even in adversity there is opportunity.In Vallaro's case it would be about how he turned a jail stretch for extortion into a career as a Staten Island trucking magnate. Always a step ahead, so far at least, Vallaro is the Mafia "rat" at the centre of a 170-page indictment against 62 mobsters and crooks, including the bosses of New York's Gambino family, which resulted in 57 arrests last week. It was a crippling blow to one of the city's notorious Five Families.Twelve years and a lifetime ago, Vallaro became pals with the Gambino captain Nicholas "Lit...