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.
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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. …….”
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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.
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