Steven Gault

Steven Gault (born 1973) is a Canadian outlaw biker and police informer who played a key role in the Ontario Provincial Police's (OPP) Project Tandem operation against the Hells Angels between 2005 and 2006.

Informer Gault was born in North Bay and dropped out of high school in grade 10. In 2008, Gault testified that he started working as a police informer in 1990 at the age of 17 as he became involved in various criminal activities while at the same time informing on his associates. Gault stated: "I was just providing information to them [the police] for money about drug dealing operations in the area". When asked by the Crown Attorney Mitchell Flagg "Other than the money, was there any other reason that you provided information to the police when you were a teenager?", Gault flatly replied "No".

In 1996 Gault became involved with an 18-year-old woman named Linda Sebastiao, whom he started living with a month after they met, in 1997 he fathered a daughter by her. Sebastiao description of Gault was: "He was very charming and swept me off my feet." Gault was working on a house in Warsaw, Ontario when he met a member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club, William "Mr. Bill" Lavoie, by chance, and ending up befriending him. One police officer told the journalist Jerry Langton about the mass "patch over" in Sorel: "They [the Angels] were truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. They were trading patch for patch the legendary Hells Angel patch for some of the lowest of the low".

Gault testified that after joining the Hells Angels: "I contacted one of the officers I was providing information to...I told (the police) if I could make my way into the Hells Angels and make my way up to full patch, I would take down any drug dealers I could". The police estimated that Ward was responsible for about 75% of all the cocaine sales in the Niagara peninsula. On 18 August 2005, Gault visited Welland to meet Ward while wearing a wire and was recorded buying 1.1 kilograms of cocaine from Ward for $42,000 in cash. Gault described in lucid detail a plan to kill Lenti and leave his corpse hanging out in public as the police notes state: "It was proposed that the agent kill Lenti and leave him in the middle of the highway in his [Bandidos] colours. Lenti couldn't just disappear; he had to be found to prove a point".

Witness for the Crown Gault served as the star witness for the Crown in the various trials that resulted from Project Tandem in 2008 and 2009. On 11 May 2008, Gault served as a witness for the Crown at the double murder trial of James Boudreau in Coburg. On 26 May 2008, Boudreau was convicted of one count of first degree murder and another count of second degree murder. At the trial of Akleh and Stephenson in 2008 in Whitby, Akleh testified it was Gault who approached him when he arrived unannounced at his Ottawa house about killing Lenti, stating he wanted nothing to do with the alleged murder plot or Gault. On 7 November 2008, the Crown's case against Akleh and Stephenson collapsed when Akleh revealed to the court he had been a police informer since 2003 and there never was a murder plot against Lenti. Gault appeared to be very surprised to learn that Akleh was also an informer, saying in the courtroom: "You've got to be kidding me". Akleh testified he had become an informer out of fear of Gault, saying that Gault was harassing him and his family and making death threats. Akleh further testified that his long-standing feud with Gault made it very unlikely that he would try to recruit him as a hitman while Stephenson testified he had been feuding with Gault ever since he suggested he was not intelligent enough to serve as the treasurer of the Oshawa chapter. Gault is living in witness protection under a pseudonym in an unknown location.

In June 2010, the Ontario Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ordered Gault to pay Sebastiao some $35,000 in compensation, ruling that she had suffered years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Gault. Sebastiao has stated that Gault has refused to pay child support for their daughter and compensation and alleges he only offered her a one time payment of $200 to support their daughter despite being paid $1 million by the Ontario government. She stated about her ex-husband: "He would rather spend $5,000 on a (motor)bike part than $50 for a good pair of shoes for his daughter." Legal experts state that Sebastiao has a strong case against Gault, but because he is living in witness protection that it is very unlikely that she can force him to pay child support.

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