I wonder if Debra would have felt bad about the soldiers these guys wanted to kill?
Posted on 12/13/2007 6:08:36 AM PST by Calpernia
The investigation of men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix led Wednesday to a guilty plea in a very different sort of case.
Cherry Hill municipal court clerk Debra H. Benecke admitted fixing two traffic tickets for one of the suspects.
"She made a dumb decision to try to help out someone who really couldn't help himself," her lawyer, Scott Schweiger, said in an interview.
Benecke pleaded guilty to tampering with public records. Benecke, who worked for the courts for 14 years, faces probation when she is sentenced on Feb. 1. The 49-year-old is also barred from holding a government job in New Jersey.
On Oct. 16, 2006, local police charged Dritan Duka with making an illegal U-turn and driving without a license, and he was given a Nov. 9 court date.
Authorities say Benecke helped him out of the court date by marking the tickets to make them appear that they had been taken care of when, in fact, they had not.
Schweiger said Benecke felt bad for Duka, a father of five who worked for his family's roofing company and was an undocumented immigrant -- and therefore unable to get a driver's license.
"Morally, she felt she was doing the right thing," he said.
Prosecutors said they learned about the ticket fix from material in the federal terrorism case.
Schweiger said Duka's driving record was examined largely because television pundit Bill O'Reilly criticized local officials for not keeping Duka and the other suspects from driving illegally.
But Camden County's acting prosecutor has said the discrepancy would have been caught eventually by an audit of municipal court cases.
Duka and four other men were charged in May with conspiring to kill military personnel in a raid on Fort Dix. A raid never took place.
The five, all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s, are scheduled for trial in March. If convicted, they could face life in prison.
Fort Dix ping - update
49 years old, losing your job because you help illegal aliens. Hopefully Bill O’R will let America know this is happening, even on a small scale.
I’m not buying the phony baloney story about this woman “feeling sorry” for the hard-working illegal. Unless her attorney can produce evidence of her doing this on a regular basis over the years for other ostensibly sympathetic characters, the more obvious explanation is 1) she took a bribe—either one she solicited or succumbed to or 2) she was running interference for him because she knew precisely who/what he was and what he was up to—or at the behest of someone else who did.
I wonder if Debra would have felt bad about the soldiers these guys wanted to kill?
Don’t get too excited yet. I’m still amazed there hasn’t been any public commentary by officials as to how they had a Roofing Business. In NJ, you need a permit to have a business like that plus a permit for every job done.
How did that happen if they were illegals?
Just more illegal Muslims doing the terrorism Americans won’t do.
I agree.
Bump
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2007 – FBI agents arrested five radical Islamists for allegedly plotting to “kill as many U.S. soldiers as they could” at the Army’s Fort Dix, N.J.
The arrests occurred last night in Cherry Hill, N.J., as suspects tried to buy three AK47 assault rifles and four semi-automatic M-16s from a confidential government witness. These apprehensions culminate a 16-month FBI investigation into the groups’ alleged plot to kill soldiers with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades, according to a complaint filed in the Camden, N.J. Federal court.
Now imagine if the terrorists had intended to attack, say, San Fransico? There would be no sympathety for the perps and the "assault rifles" and RPGs would be mentioned in every article across the land. "Alleged" plot my ass.
I prolly meant “sympathy.”
Since NJ has a history of illegal documents being issued from our departments in various towns, I wouldn’t lean towards ‘compassion’ either.
With their connection to radical Islam, access to unlimited COMBLOC weaponry, and two incomprehensible languages serving as a code, the Albanians are a for-real threat. HArd to spot, too. Give'em an American haircut and a Target wardrobe and they blend in very well. They're more or less Euro-looking, not stereotypical Arabs. (Excuse me, that was a politically incorrect profiling statement.)
Time for " Barney Fife" to check in with Interpol.
Okay, that's it. I am officially an anachronism. I don't even understand why someone would say that with any expectation they would be deemed credible.
The whole subject has become so muddied up by religious/politicians, some laws are by their nature not enforced, where to start? 'You know', WWJD?
You’re right. Fourteen years in the courts and got caught this once? I’ll bet there’s more to it.
>>>This is an Albanian gang. Not only is this not referenced, but it is clear that nowhere in the US is there a police agency that is even aware of the world-wide Albanian crime network.
>>>Time for “ Barney Fife” to check in with Interpol.
Maybe ‘Barney Fife’ needs to ask Rudy Giuliani about the lack of information available about Albanian Gangs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830078/posts?page=18#18
>>>Six ethnic Albanians have been arrested in a plot to storm the Fort Dix installation in Burlington County.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1792756/posts?page=8#8
Excerpt
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says that by 1998, Kosovo Albanians had become the second most important group on the Balkan route, after the Turkish mafia. “Kosovo Albanians make the perfect mafia — even better than the Sicilians,” said Marko Nicovic, vice-president of the New York-based International Narcotics Enforcement Agency.
Anthony M. DeStefano, “Giuliani and Kosovo-Alb. Drug Mafia in NYC,” The Wall Street Journal,
(September 9, 1985), pp.1,18;
Eve-Ann Prentice, “Kosovo is Mafia’s ‘heroin gateway to West’ ,” The London Times, (July 24 1999).
“Thousands of Albanian children in hiding to escape blood feuds,” The Guardian, (September 30, 1998), p. 15; Misha Glenny
“Heart of Darkness,” The New York Review of Books, (August 14, 1997), pp.32-36.
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0335.htm
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: DRUGS
Revised 1/8/01
NewsMax.com 11/3/00 Carl Limbacher “…… New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he believes that an allegation Vice President Al Gore once tried to pressure a friend to lie about his past drug use should “cancel out” any negative impact of Thursday night’s revelation that Texas Governor George Bush may have been less than candid about being stopped in 1976 for drunk driving. Guiliani made the comment on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes Friday night:
HANNITY: Is it legitimate, when we have Al Gore’s best friend on tape saying that he was a regular pot smoker, that he asked him to lie about it if the press came to him — which he did; if they’re going to draw this blood is it then fair game for everybody?
GIULIANI: Maybe the thing to do is that it cancels — let’s cancel this all out and go back to who do you think is going to make a better president. ………
Minutes before Giuliani’s remark, Hannity played an audiotape from an interview of former Gore friend John C. Warnecke, Jr. conducted in September by WLAC Nashville, Tennessee talk radio host Phil Valentine. …..
VALENTINE: Was (Gore) doing more than marijuana when you were with him or was it just pot?
WARNECKE: Well, we smoked hashish together and we smoked a type of marijuana called “Thai sticks.” That’s a special high-grade marijuana that comes wrapped in a special stick from Thailand. And what they do is, after they wrap it around a stick they dip it in opium. So it’s an opium-laced marijuana.
VALENTINE: Now you’re asserting that Al Gore continued the drug use after you stopped 20 years ago.
WARNECKE: I’ll tell you the story. I know I smoked with him one time while he was actually campaigning.
VALENTINE: For Congress?
WARNECKE: For Congress, the first time around.
VALENTINE: That would be in ‘76?
WARNECKE: ‘76, correct. ……
Gore has claimed publicy that he stopped using drugs in 1972. …….”
ping
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1792756/posts
BALKAN CONNECTION (Albanian mafia in 80es threatening to Rudi Giuliani)
The Wall Street Journal, Monday, September 9, 1985, pp.1,18 By Anthony M. DeStefano
NEW YORK - The informant who visited the office of U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani [current Mayor of New York City] last December had a chilling story to tell:
A defendant in a drug racketeering case that Mr. Giuliani was prosecuting was offering $400.000 to anyone who would kill a certain assistant U.S. attorney and a federal drug enforcement agent.
For 45 minutes Mr. Giuliani and his chief assistant, William Tendy, listened to and evaluated the tale. Five other informants later corroborated it. The threatened lawmen-assistant prosecutor Alan M. Cohen and narcotics agent Jack Delmore-were given 24-hour-a-day protection by federal marshals.
For years police and court officials in Italy have had to deal with Maffia attempts on their lives, some of which have succeeded. American gangsters have rarely dared such crimes. But certain criminal groups in the U.S. now seem less restrained. Mr. Giuliani says he has recently heard of more threats against law-enforcement officers and judges around the country than at any other time in his 15 years as a prosecutor. A number of his colleagues share that perception. Mr. Giuliani says that he himself has heen threatened.
The “Balkan Connection”
The drug case that brought forth the threats Mr. Giuliani is concerned about involved the disruption of the so-called “Balkan connectlon” heroin trade conducted by among others a loosely orginised group of ethnic Albanians, centered in New York. A federal probe into this drug traffic and other posslble crimes, including the alleged plot to kill officials, is in progress. The drug investigation and the criminal activities of a group of Albanian-Americans have attracted little publicity.
(Excerpt) Read more at srpska-mreza.com ...
“Morally, she felt she was doing the right thing,” he said.
these new liberals have no idea what the right thing is, neither did their parents obviously
BALKAN CONNECTION = Balkan Route
Police arrest a man suspected of being a member of a criminal gang in Kosovo.
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Kosovo is a gangster’s paradise. With few police, no effective judicial system and lots of guns, the internationally administered province is increasingly seen by European leaders as a base for organized crime, especially drug smuggling.
Kosovo lies in the middle of the Balkan Route, a web of smuggling roads leading from Turkey and over which $400-billion (US) of heroin is moved into western Europe every year. Now there are growing fears the province could provide an important transit point.
“We need riot police for crowd control, forensic experts to solve crimes and specialized units to fight drug trafficking and organized crime,” Javier Solana, the European Union’s representative for foreign and security policy, told European leaders in February.
But the 2,500 United Nations police sent to the province are less than half that requested by Bernard Kouchner, the UN mission chief. KFOR soldiers, for their part, are likely to put as much effort into policing as their cohorts in Bosnia, which is not much. Bosnia is one of Europe’s major conduits for drugs, arms, stolen cars and prostitution, despite a large international military presence.
“Generals do not want to turn their troops into cops,” an official at NATO headquarters said. “Especially, they don’t want to get their troops shot pursuing black marketeers.”
The chaos created by 10 years of war in the Balkans has been a bonanza for the Kosovo Albanians, who control 40% of Europe’s heroin trade — their profits are thought to have helped fund last year’s war. If they were to return home, there would be little the cash-starved and understaffed UN mission could do to control the movement of drugs and guns.
“All of a sudden, there was a drastic void in Kosovo after the war,” said Bruce Lloy, an RCMP officer and chief press spokesman with the UN police in Pristina. “I would have moved in too.”
Two to six tonnes of heroin are thought to move along the Balkan route every month, providing 80% of Europe’s heroin supply. The drug originates in Taleban-controlled Afghanistan, Iran and eastern Turkey, from where it flows to western Turkey. From there it moves through Bulgaria, west to Albania via Macedonia and Kosovo or north through central Europe. The entire journey takes a week to 10 days.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says that by 1998, Kosovo Albanians had become the second most important group on the Balkan route, after the Turkish mafia. “Kosovo Albanians make the perfect mafia — even better than the Sicilians,” said Marko Nicovic, vice-president of the New York-based International Narcotics Enforcement Agency.
“They are a small ethnic group made up of clans or families that have very close to family relations. The brotherhood, or Fic, is impenetrable by outsiders. It is difficult to find translators to work with police and impossible to get an informer or agent inside the organizations.”
The Kosovo Albanian heroin dealers are typically made up of groups of fewer than 100 members of an extended family. Mr. Nicovic, former chief of the Belgrade narcotics squad, said they are ideally situated to benefit from the trade because, facing discrimination at home over the past few decades, members of the same families have settled in both Turkey and western Europe, at either end of the Balkan route.
Since the mid-1980s, these connections have allowed them to begin taking over the heroin trade, especially in Switzerland and Scandinavia.
According to Interpol, Albanian speakers accounted for 14% of those arrested for heroin smuggling in 1997. While the average quantity of the drug found on smugglers was two grams, ethnic Albanians were carrying an average of 120 g.
Last month, officials from the Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway and Denmark met to discuss stamping out the heroin trade between Southern Europe and European Union countries which they believe is controlled by a dozen Kosovo Albanian families.
Although there is no evidence the Kosovo Liberation Army was directly involved in drug dealing, the British-based International Police Review reported it had become dependent on the mafia families, “which gives the criminals an influence over an armed force, almost 30,000 strong, which is likely to dominate post-war Kosovo.”
But the question facing UN police on the ground in Kosovo is whether the heroin trade through the province — interrupted by last year’s war — has reappeared in large quantities.
“I don’t believe that’s true,” said Barry Graham, a UN officer working with Pristina’s regional intelligence unit. “There are Kosovar Albanians dealing drugs in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, but their links with Kosovo are only family associations. I don’t believe that Kosovo is providing a significant amount of heroin to Europe. What officials are saying is that 40% of the heroin is provided by Kosovar Albanians — but the heroin does not come from Kosovo.”
While he acknowledged heroin is coming into the province, the amount only supplies local needs, he said. Cocaine is also being brought in to satisfy the demands of the large numbers of international workers gathered for the humanitarian effort.
“We are not seeing any intelligence that anybody is making large amounts of money here,” he said.
Mr. Graham argues that the established routes through Bulgaria and Albania are so successful the smugglers have no need to make use of the route through Kosovo.
“Why would they change it to Kosovo and risk going through new international borders as well as random security checks by over 40,000 KFOR soldiers? Because the borders are now monitored, they have to use the mountain passes and the quantities are limited to two or three kilograms.”
Until last year, smugglers bribed their way past Yugoslav border guards into Kosovo, then moved north into Serbia. The war disrupted this route and the new international border guards are not so easily corrupted, he said.
In Belgrade, there is no longer the large supply of heroin coming from Kosovo that there was a few years ago. “All the connections between Serbs and Albanians has stopped,” a heroin dealer in Belgrade told the National Post. “Only people without character would have dealt with Albanians during the war.”
A middleman along the Balkan route, the 24-year-old dealer sells a kilogram in Belgrade for 20,000 German marks ($14,200), a quarter of the price in Italy. However, he said he did expect the route from Kosovo to reopen.
UN police say they are monitoring the dozen or so low-level dealers in Pristina, but with the court system virtually non-existent there is little they can do to stop them.
“If a guy is caught with 40 to 50 grams, he wouldn’t be prosecuted,” said Mr. Graham.
He added that he is much more concerned by the large numbers of guns coming into the country from Albania, a growing arsenal for the KLA, which was to have been decomissioned last year.
“Large trucks are being used to smuggle weapons and drugs from the Albanian port of Dures. Small amounts of cocaine, heroin and pot are hidden in the cab but weapons are the main item.”
The flow of weapons out of the Balkans may be as great a threat to European security as the heroin trade.
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Traffic tickets are for revenue for city and county coffers.
When they are issued to someone who is unlikely/able to pay (at least without personal risk of exposure in a politically protected bloc), the rules change and the fine can be dismissed.
These taxes are for middle/upper class citizens of the US only.
She know what the right thing to do is for such tax fines, Marxists have told her so:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The business appears to be a fly-by-night roofing scam.
Yeah, violating public law is the moral thing to do...if you are a New Jersey civil serpent!
It is after all New Jersey.
Krasniqi with Holbrook & Clark at a Kerry fundraiser
You want to tell me that Krasniqi (a Kosovo Albanian who owns a Brooklyn roofing company) and the Duka brothers (Kosovo Albanians who owned a NJ roofing company) didn't know each other?
Are you really asking if Jesus would act in a sneaky manner to break the law the way this woman did?
Post 29 has a tidbit for everyone.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938876/posts?page=29#29
“Morally, she felt she was doing the right thing,” Schweiger said.
What church do you attend, Scott?!
Is this a serious question? The year 2000 I was told by the GOP power that be that to be conservative was not enough I needed an extra touch called compassionate conservatism. It did take a few years to get to the point of what was exactly meant by this compassionate meaning. Now I ask you if from the top down an ignoring of the law of the land under doing jobs Americans just won't do, dressed up as a religious tenant of conservatism why should this woman be held to a higher standard?
Once the Communists fractured into independent, more or less non-communist states after Tito's Death, the very same NYT transformed these "Bandits" into "Freedom Fighters." I suppose the massive Ruder and Finn PR Campaign funded by Saudi money helped?
Look it up. Yeah there was a KGB Mole at the NYT, someday we'll find out who it was.
Very good point you make. I would sincerely hope that Benecke’s record is scrutinized very carefully, to determine if she has done this before. And for whom.
With regard to the bribe possibility, Duka and Bernecke would have somehow have had to “find” each other. Which indicates that she probably has a history of “fixing” things for money, and word is “on the street” about who fixes tickets. So maybe she’s an equal opportunity fixer. But I highly doubt it.
Maybe he fixed her roof, and they just got to chatting.
Note to HOMELAND SECURITY: Investigate this woman thoroughly! (It pains me to have to say that. I should be automatically assuming they are. Somehow, I doubt it.)
>>>Once the Communists fractured into independent, more or less non-communist states after Tito’s Death, the very same NYT transformed these “Bandits” into “Freedom Fighters.”
Like the Freedom Fighters that were given refuge at Fort Dix years ago?
I would think this is our blue eyed jihadi, that we were promised a few years ago.
One by one, their promises/threats show up.
Al quaeda is also on the look out for senior citizen recruits. Beware!
Al quaeda is also on the look out for senior citizen recruits. Beware!<<<
Now why didn’t I think of that.
I am a bomb.
Hooked to an oxygen generator, all I need is an open flame and away we go.
For reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1529927/posts
CIS - Canada: The Organized Crime Marketplace in Canada
“For example, a smuggler was arrested in January 2005 trying to smuggle Chinese nationals and an Albanian into the U.S. through a train tunnel, linking Ontario to Michigan.”
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