Ex-Pagans leader pleads guilty to attack on rival biker

STEVEN "GORILLA" Mondevergine, once the baddest guy in the biker world, pleaded guilty yesterday to aggravated assault and firearms offenses for shooting and stabbing a rival Pagans leader three years ago.

Mondevergine, 56, fat and slovenly in a sleeveless white shirt that showed off arms riddled with tattoos, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Earl Trent to three to 10 years in state prison as part of a negotiated plea deal.

Deputy District Attorney Brian Grady withdrew an attempted-murder charge in exchange for the plea.

Mondevergine shot Timothy "Casual" Flood, then-president of the Philly chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, in the kneecap and stabbed him in the back in the Pagans' clubhouse on Disston Street near Torresdale Avenue, in Tacony, on Jan. 30, 2008.

Mondevergine was Flood's predecessor as head of the outlaw Philadelphia biker gang. Sources previously told the Daily News that he wanted his old job back.

Grady called yesterday's plea "excellent," adding that it puts "Mr. Mondevergine under supervision until he's just about 70."

Mondevergine's attorney, Joseph Santaguida, said the sentence was "appropriate."

After the attack, Flood initially told investigators that he was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the parking lot of a Northeast Philly pub. But authorities were dubious of his claim since there was no evidence backing it up.

Mondevergine was arrested in December at his mother's home in Washington Township, Gloucester County.

South Philly-bred, Mondevergine joined the Philadelphia police force in 1979. He was working as a plainclothes vice officer in 1982 when he and two other cops were charged with protecting gamblers and were fired. He denied the charges, which were later dropped.