License plot suspect pleads guilty: Will likely testify against 4 co-defendants

There could have been a second bail hearing, or, as I suspect, the article is merely confusing. It doesn't state the date on which the men were denied bail, just that they were. Because no date was specified in this article, it misleads the reader into thinking the bail hearing was just recently held.

Previous articles state that the men were arrested on Feb. 5 and denied bail at their hearing a few days later. Smith was killed just prior to that. So as far as I tell, these guys were all in jail when Smith was murdered.

I wouldn't be so quick to discount Smith's murder serving as a message to the other team members. The article only says that this suspect is expected to testify against his "co-defendants." My bet is that he won't give up the larger operation and its orchestrator. (Yep, it was just us 5. Ya got us all.)

Further, prosecutors can "expect" all they want. Ken Starr wasn't the first or the last to be snowed into exchanging immunity for crapola. Less cynically--there is the possibility that word of this "expected" testimony is disimformation. Perhaps a trap using the suspect as bait? (Lessons learned from Katherine Smith?)

Probably just some big hearted guy in the Port Authority. Saw great promise in the young Abdul's little plumbing business and wanted to give the kid a break.

I'd be checking out precisely who requisitioned and authorized that work. This didn't appear to have gone through normal channels.

Interestingly, this guy is the only one of the five who was eventually granted bail (late March.)

One of the five Arabs is the son of Peter Hansen, of New York City.

The plumber who worked on the sprinkler system, I think. But we couldn't connect Peter Hansen, the father, to Peter Hansen the UN guy, IIRC. The info should still be there on one of the old threads.

Shermy's posted the history list for those tuning in late (or who may have missed some of the details).

As I understood it, she was released and killed in the same day.

One of the jailed men was the mediator in this exercise. He had negotiated this same type of transaction before and gotten away with it. He was also the owner of the car that mysteriously burst into flames before hitting a pole (as observed by witnesses). So one of the jailed men (or his friends) did have access to duplicate keys needed to arrange a device in the backseat/trunk.

This same scam was also discovered in Illinois and other states with other participants.

While the jailed "suspects" (apprehended red handed in the parking lot after the deal went through) claim that they needed the licenses "for to drive the delivery vans of American employer, yes" I think that more licenses were obtained than suspects (meaning that they obtained multiple identities).

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