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If you've seen Untold: Criminal offense & Penalties, the latest episode of Maclain and Chapman Way's Untoldsports docuseries, you may be curious to learn more virtually AJ Galante, who became general manager of the now-defunct modest-league hockey squad the Danbury Trashers when he was but 17 years sometime.

AJ was given this title by his father, waste disposal mogul Jimmy Galante, when he bought the UHL squad in 2004 and brought it to their home state of Connecticut. He named the team the Trashers equally an homage to the family business organization.

As the medico explains, the elderberry Galante had given AJ the job of general director to cheer him up subsequently an on-water ice injury ended his own short-lived hockey career in loftier school. But AJ chop-chop took to his new job and became known for bolstering the team's popularity and boosting game attendance by promoting its bad-boy prototype. According to a 2005 New York Times story about the team, it was AJ who dubbed the Trashers "the Evil Empire." Its theme song? "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses. Its motto? "Bad Boys Talkin' Trash."

As the slogan suggests, the team shortly began alluring media attention over their frequent brawls on the ice, the dr. explains. The most notable saw 1 of the Trasher's star players, Brad Wingfield, sustain a broken leg after getting into an on-ice fight with Josh Elzinga of the Kalamazoo Wings.

Trashers logo courtesy of Netflix

AJ's male parent and the squad'due south owner, Jimmy Galante, was arrested and charged with tertiary-degree misdemeanor assault afterward he was accused of striking referee James Harper subsequently during that same game, according to the New York Times. The charges against Galante were dropped and he ultimately only received a fine from the league for leaving his skybox and entering a prohibited area, according to the Greenwich Fourth dimension, while the referee was given a five-game suspension over the scuffle.

Also Read: Untold: Law-breaking and Penalties Directors on Former Trasher'south Possessor Jimmy Galante and More 'Wild Characters'

The incident came at a fourth dimension when violence in sports was beingness hotly debated. The New York Times also noted that on the very same solar day that Galante pleaded not guilty to hitting Harper, five NBA players were charged by a Michigan prosecutor for their interest in the famous Pistons-Pacers brawl that inspired the beginning episode in Netflix'due south Untold serial, Malice at the Palace.

AJ Galante, who was a freshman concern major at Manhattanville Higher in Purchase, Northward.Y. at the time, told the Times in 2005 that the on-ice violence was all part of the Trasher's appeal.

"We have a tough team, but we're also putting more pucks in the cyberspace than anyone else," he said. "It's like Nascar racing. People want to see the crashes, not the same guys going effectually and around the track. Basically, we know what people desire to see."

Fifteen years have passed since the Danbury Trashers disbanded in 2006 as a consequence of the federal investigation that landed Jimmy Galante in prison house after he pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, tax fraud and wire fraud.

At present, the younger Galante has embraced boxing instead of hockey. As Galante explains in the doc, he decided to open up his own business after years of working as a truck driver while his begetter was in prison. Today, his begetter is once once again a free man, and AJ at present owns a boxing gym chosen Champs Boxing Club in Danbury.

Untold: Law-breaking & Penalties is now streaming on Netflix. Main Prototype: AJ Galante pictured in Untold: Criminal offense & Penalties courtesy of Netflix.

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