"I'm very much a family person," Omodt said. In fact, it was Matter's devotion to family that convinced Omodt the man once known as the "godfather of the Hells Angels" in Minneapolis would be redeemed. The two former adversaries are close friends today, with Omodt standing by Matter's family through recent health crises. When Matter was sent to prison, he said he asked Omodt to check in on his wife and son "to make sure they are OK. "It was a hard thing to do, but my family was more important to me." "I had to evaluate at the time, and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do because the code was embedded deep in me," but he ultimately decided to work with law enforcement. If Matter didn't cooperate with authorities and testify in other drug cases, he quickly found he could be facing a prison sentence that could keep him away from his family until his young son was grown. The reason I did start respecting Chris was that I thought he was a pretty straight shooter." "In the situation I was in, I figured they would lie to me about pretty much anything. "I didn't trust law enforcement," said Matter. Matter, on the other hand, was less immediately impressed with Omodt.
You just wonder where the violent side of this guy is, because I have never seen it firsthand. You meet him, and he comes across as a professional. I just considered him to be such a violent person. So, that's what I did, and he was an absolute gentleman. My dad (who had been a sheriff for 28 years) always told me to look them straight in the eye. But, I always carry myself professionally. "I walked in there," Omodt said, "and I was expecting to get a lot of lip service. I was ready to back it up, and I usually had a handful of very serious people with me who could roll with it, whatever way it turned out." "It was what you had to do in those situations. "I was very confrontational," Matter said. "Breaking the Code" is filled with examples of how Matter built his reputation in the biker world.
I imagine that's true, but the Hells Angels and clubs like them like to turn the claim on its head and take the 1 percent part as a kind of badge of honor." It comes from the claim often used by motorcycle enthusiasts to defend their interest in bikes: Ninety-nine percent of motorcyclists are law-abiding citizens. "One-percenters," Matter explains in the book, "were what we motorcycle clubs called ourselves. That's why they weren't a 1-percenter club.
The Grim Reapers were more of a club that wasn't that serious. That's where I found my family, my camaraderie, with the Hells Angels especially. "I wanted to put a chapter in Minneapolis. They offered to move Matter to Omaha, where he could join an established chapter, but he said no.
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