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Portland president of Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club guilty on all counts in racketeering trial; jury acquits club’s national president

A federal jury on Tuesday returned a mixed verdict, finding the president of the Portland chapter of the Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club, Mark Leroy Dencklau, guilty of racketeering conspiracy and murder and kidnapping in aid of racketeering for the torture killing of an ex-member in 2015.

But the jury acquitted the club’s national president, Kenneth Earl Hause, known as “The Wiz,’’ of the single racketeering conspiracy charge he faced.

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