Accused United Nations gang killer Cory Vallee told an undercover cop planted in his jail cell in 2014 that he was innocent of all the charges he faced.
The secretly recorded conversation occurred on Aug. 17, 2014 – the same day Vallee was escorted back to Canada from Mexico.
In it, Vallee tells the cop – whose identify is shielded by a publication ban – that he had been charged with two murders, as well as attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
“And on the form it says I’m being investigating for three more,” Vallee explained.
The cop expressed shock: “No f—king way. Seriously?”
“Yep,” Vallee said. “When they read out the charges, I said, ‘That’s it?’”
He said the police officers then “looked at me and they laughed.”
But Vallee also told the cop, who was posing as a criminal arrested at Vancouver airport, that he was not guilty of any of the charges.
“I am innocent. I didn’t do them,” he said. “I don’t have anything to worry about.”
He said he held a regular job his whole adult life before taking off to Mexico, fearing police were about to arrest him.
“Not many people who get charged with gang stuff have a job and go to work every day,” Vallee said. “I used to work for the city. I used to drive a garbage truck.”
The recorded conversation, which lasted several hours, is being played on video for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon at Vallee’s murder trial.
Vallee’s lawyer Tony Paisana is challenging the admissibility of the conversation, alleging that his client’s Charter rights were violated.
Vallee told the undercover cop that several others were originally charged with murder in the same case, but made “deals” and the murder count was dropped.
In fact, several other members and associates of the UN gang pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
The murder charges some of them initially faced were later stayed.
Vallee was originally charged with the May 2008 murder of stereo installer Jonathan Barber, the attempted murder of Barber’s girlfriend, conspiracy to kill the Bacons, as well as the February 2009 murder of Bacon associate Kevin LeClair.
Both the Barber murder charge and the attempted murder charge were recently dropped by the Crown.
Vallee also hinted to the undercover cop that he had a falling out with UN gang leader Conor D’Monte.
While he didn’t name D’Monte, he referred to having a co-accused who was “on the run too … He’s on the same charges.”
Interpol warrants were issued for Vallee and D’Monte on the same day.
Vallee told the undercover cop that he doesn’t talk to the other accused, nor had they fled Canada together.
“You don’t put all your eggs in one basket because if you catch one, you catch the other,” he said. “I have disagreements with him.”
When the cop asked about the dispute, Vallee said it was a “disagreement about money.”
“I need money … he doesn’t want to pay it,” Vallee said, referring to his co-accused as a “f—king asshole.”
Vallee said he left Canada before he was charged in January 2011.
“I used to get followed everywhere by the police so I knew I was going to get charged so I left before the charges,” he said.
Once the charges were laid, he worried about how his family would react to the news.
“When you first hear you are on the front page of the paper charged with a whole bunch of shit, it’s stressful because I wasn’t in the city then,” he told the cop as both lay on cement beds inside the small holding cell at the Richmond RCMP detachment.
“I was pretty depressed because when your family sees that it makes you look like a real f–king asshole.”
Vallee said it was the job of police “to make me look bad.”
“It’s not like they are going to put in, oh, he’s a nice guy, he volunteered for meals on wheels. I didn’t, but they are not going to put that stuff in anyway. It’s just the way it is,” he said. “Their job is to make me look bad. It’s my lawyer’s job to show that I’m not.”
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