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administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Speech File Backup Files
Subseries:
Chron File, 1989-1993
OA/ID Number:
13660
Folder ID Number:
13660-006
Folder Title:
DEA New York Field Office 3/9/89 [OA 6347] [1]
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THE OF SEAL THE AS TRIP STATES OF THE OF UNITED callers, 899 212
THE
PRESIDENT
TO
NEW YORK,
SDD
NEW YORK
March 9, 1989
Photo Copy Preservation
SCHEDULE
they
Photo Copy Preservation
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01a. Schedule
Schedule of the President and Mrs. Bush for New York, New
03/09/89
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
York. (2 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Speech File, Backup
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
DEA New York Field Office 3/9/89 [1]
Date Closed:
9/22/2004
OA/ID Number:
06347
FOIA/SYS Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2004-2265-S
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
MR Case #:
Appeal Case #:
MR Disposition:
Appeal Disposition:
Disposition Date:
Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRAJ
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base and
proceeds to board Air Force One.
2:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base en
route New York, New York.
(Flying Time: 45 Minutes)
(Interchange: None)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Sandwiches/Snacks)
3:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives John F. Kennedy
International Airport, New York and proceeds to
Motorcade.
Met by:
The Honorable Guy Molinari
U.S. Congressman
Ambassador-Designate Walter Curly
Ambassador-Designate to France
Ambassador-Designate Joy Silverman
Ambassador-Designate to Barbados
Ms. Susan Molinari
Daughter of Congressman Molinari and
Councilwoman, New York
Mr. Richard Rowe
Port Authority Airport Manager
Mr. Mike Clark
Operations, John F. Kennedy Airport
3:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs John F.
Kennedy International Airport en route Drug
Enforcement Administration.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
L. Tomeu
Spare
T. McBride
Doctor
Page Two
Photo Copy Preservation
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Follow Up
Control
J. Sununu
J. Hagin
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
J. Swift
Official Photographer
Medic
WHCA
Camera I
Staff I
A. Card
W. Bennett
Staff Van
Remaining Staff
Guest Van
Remaining Guests
Press Van I
B. Zanca
Press Van II
(Drive Time: 30 Minutes)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Upon arrival at the Drug Enforcement
Administration, Guests and Staff will
be. escorted to Holding Rooms.
Please board Motorcade no later than
4:45 pm for transport to Sheraton
Hotel.
Page Three
Photo Copy Preservation
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01b. Schedule
Schedule of the President and Mrs. Bush for New York, New
n.d.
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
York. (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Speech File, Backup
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
DEA New York Field Office 3/9/89 [1]
Date Closed:
9/22/2004
OA/ID Number:
06347
FOIA/SYS Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2004-2265-S
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
MR Case #:
Appeal Case #:
MR Disposition:
Appeal Disposition:
Disposition Date:
Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
3:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT begins participation in Meeting with
family of slain DEA Agent, Everett Hatcher.
3:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Meeting
and proceeds to Conference Room.
EVENT:
CONFISCATED DRUG/MONEY DISPLAY
PRESS POOL
3:52 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Conference Room and proceeds
to view Drug/Money Display.
3:56 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes viewing of Display and
prcceeds to Executive Office.
3:57 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Executive Office.
3:58 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Executive Office and
proceeds to Auditorium Off-Stage Announcement
Area.
4:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Auditorium Off-Stage
Announcement Area.
Met by:
Commissioner Benjamin Ward
New York Police Commissioner
Page Five
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EVENT:
REMARKS TO DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AGENTS
OPEN PRESS
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
REMARKS
GIFT PRESENTATION
4:02 pm
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Mr. Robert Stutman,
Special Agent in Charge, is announced on Stage.
4:04 pm
THE PRESIDENT is introduced by Mr. Robert Stutman
for Remarks.
4:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT Remarks.
4:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Remarks and remains
standing.
4:22 pm Mr. Stutman presents THE PRESIDENT
with a DEA Raid Jacket and Plaque.
4:25 pm
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Mr. Stutman, departs
Stage and proceeds to Executive Office.
4:30 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Executive Office.
EVENT:
MEETING WITH DEA UNDERCOVER AGENTS
CLOSED PRESS
4:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT participates in Meeting with DEA
Undercover Agents.
4:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Meeting with DEA Agents
and proceeds to Motorcade.
Page Six
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4:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Drug
Enforcement Administration en route Sheraton
Center Hotel.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Upon arrival at Sheraton Center Hotel,
Guests and Staff will be escorted to
Staff Offices.
Those Guests and Staff wishing to change
for the dinner, will be escorted to
Changing Rooms.
Please board Motorcade no later than
8:00 pm for transport to John F.
Kennedy Airport.
4:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Sheraton Center Hotel and
proceeds to Suite.
Met by:
Mr. Andrew Katz
Hotel Manager
Mr. Edward Kane
Catering Manager
Mr. Michael Warren
Banquet Manager
Page Seven
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5:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Suite for Private Time.
(PRIVATE TIME: 1 HOUR 15 MINUTES)
NOTE: Mrs. Bush will join THE PRESIDENT at this
time.
6:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Suite
and proceed to Georgian Salon A-Ballroom.
EVENT:
STAFF PHOTO/RECEIVING LINE
CLOSED PRESS
6:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Georgian
Salon A Ballroom and participate in Staff
Photo.
Met by:
Mr. Christopher Edley
President, United Negro College Fund
Mr. Hugh Cullman
Chairman of the Board, United Negro College Fund
6:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush conclude participation
in Staff Photo and depart Georgian Salon A
Ballroom and proceed to Holding Room.
6:50 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Holding Room.
7:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Off-Stage Announcement Area,
Imperial Ballroom.
7:08 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Off-Stage
Announcement Area and hold briefly.
Page Eight
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EVENT:
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND DINNER ADDRESS
OPEN PRESS
RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
REMARKS
GIFT PRESENTATION
7:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush are announced on
to Stage and proceed to Seats.
7:12 pm Invocation
7:15 pm Singing of Anthems
7:20 pm Special Presentation of Honorees
7:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT is introduced by Mr. Michael Jordan,
Chairman, United Negro College Fund, for Remarks.
7:40 pm
THE PRESIDENT Remarks.
7:55 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Remarks and remains
standing.
NOTE: Mrs. Bush will join THE PRESIDENT
at the Podium at this time.
7:57 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush participate in Gift
Presentation.
NOTE: THE PRESIDENT will receive a glass
sculpture and Mrs. Bush will receive
a book.
Page Nine
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7:58 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush conclude participation
in Gift Presentation, depart Stage and proceed
to Holding Room.
8:00 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Holding Room.
8:03 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room
and proceed to Motorcade.
8:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush board Motorcade and
depart Sheraton Hotel en route John F. Kennedy
International Airport.
Met by:
Mr. Andrew Malone
United States Attorney
Eastern District of California
Mr. Benito Romano
United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
Mr. David Lawrence
Deputy Chief - United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
Mr. Benjamin Ward
New York Police Commissioner
Chief Robert Johnston
New York City Police Department
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
L. Tomeu
Spare
T. McBride
Doctor
Page Ten
Photo Copy Preservation
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Bush
Follow Up
Control
J. Sununu
J. Hagin
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
J. Swift
Official Photographer
C. Healey
Medic
Staff I
A. Card
Staff Van
Remaining Staff
Guest Van
Remaining Guests
Press Van I
B. Zanca
Press Van II
(Drive Time: 30 Minutes)
8:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive John F. Kennedy
International Airport and proceed to board Air
Force One.
8:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart New York, New
York en route Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 50 Minutes)
(Interchange: None)
(Time Change: None)
(Food Service: Sandwiches/Snacks)
9:35 pm
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush arrive Andrews Air
Force Base and proceed to board Marine One.
Page Eleven
Photo Copy Preservation
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet
(George Bush Library)
Document No.
Subject/Title of Document
Date
Restriction
Class.
and Type
01c. Schedule
Schedule of the President and Mrs. Bush for New York, New
n.d.
(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
York. (1 pp.)
Collection:
Record Group:
Bush Presidential Records
Office:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Speech File, Backup
Subseries:
WHORM Cat.:
File Location:
DEA New York Field Office 3/9/89 [1]
Date Closed:
9/22/2004
OA/ID Number:
06347
FOIA/SYS Case #:
Re-review Case #:
2004-2265-S
P-2/P-5 Review Case #:
MR Case #:
Appeal Case #:
MR Disposition:
Appeal Disposition:
Disposition Date:
Disposition Date:
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
(b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
(b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an
P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
(b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
(b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
(b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
(b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of
(b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
(b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
SCENARIOS
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT
TO
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MARCH 9, 1989
EVENT:
Meeting with Widow of Slain DEA Agent
DATE:
Thursday, March 9, 1989
LOCATION:
Drug Enforcement Administration
TIME:
3:45 pm - 3:50 pm
PRESS:
Closed
SCENARIO:
Upon arrival at the Drug Enforcement
Administration, THE PRESIDENT will be met by
Mr. Robert Stutman, Special Agent in Charge at
the New York Field Office. THE PRESIDENT,
accompanied by Mr. Stutman, will proceed to the Executive Office.
Upon arrival at the office, THE PRESIDENT will meet privately
with Mrs. Mary Jane Hatcher, wife of slain DEA Agent Everett
Hatcher, and Zachary and Joshua Hatcher, his sons. Everett
Hatcher was killed in the line of duty by a lone assailant on
March 1, 1989. Upon conclusion of the meeting, THE PRESIDENT,
accompanied by Mr. Stutman, will depart the Executive Office and
proceed to the Conference Room.
Photo Copy Preservation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT
TO
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MARCH 9, 1989
EVENT:
Confiscated Drug/Money Display
DATE:
Thursday, March 9, 1989
LOCATION:
Drug Enforcement Administration
TIME:
3:50 pm 3:55
PRESS:
Press Pool
SCENARIO:
Upon arrival at the Conference Room, THE
PRESIDENT, accompanied by Mr. Robert Stutman
will proceed to view the drugs and money
seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration
Agents. Upon conclusion, THE PRESIDENT,
accompanied by Mr. Stutman, departs the
Conference Room and proceeds to Executive
Office.
Photo Copy Preservation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT
TO
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MARCH 9, 1989
EVENT:
Remarks to Drug Enforcement Administration
Agents
DATE:
Thursday, March 9, 1989
TIME:
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
LOCATION:
Drug Enforcement Administration
ATTENDEES:
400.
PRESS:
Open
SCENARIO:
Upon arrival at the off-stage announcement area,
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Mr. Robert Stutman,
is announced onto stage by an off-stage announcement, and
proceeds to Seat joining Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY),
Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), Congressman Dean A. Gallo,
(R-NJ), Secretary Louis Sullivan and Mr. William Bennett. There
will be 400 seated attendees. THE PRESIDENT is introduced for
remarks by Mr. Stutman. Upon conclusion of remarks, THE
PRESIDENT will be presented a Raid jacket and plaque by Mr.
Stutman. Upon conclusion of the gift presentation, THE
PRESIDENT, accompanied by Mr. Stutman, departs Stage and proceeds
to the Executive Office.
Photo Copy Preservation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT
TO
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MARCH 9, 1989
EVENT:
Meeting with DEA Undercover Agents
DATE:
Thursday, March 9, 1989
TIME:
4:35 pm - 4:50 pm
LOCATION:
Drug Enforcement Administration
ATTENDEES:
5
PRESS:
Closed
SCENARIO:
Upon arrival at the Executive Office, THE
PRESIDENT will meet with 5 DEA Undercover Agents
for a briefing. Upon conclusion, THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by
Mr. Stutman, will depart the office and proceed to Motorcade. THE
PRESIDENT departs the Drug Enforcement Administration en route
Sheraton Center Hotel.
Photo Copy Preservation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH
TO
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MARCH 9, 1989
EVENT:
United Negro College Fund Dinner Address
DATE:
Thursday, March 9, 1989
TIME:
6:15 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Sheraton Center Hotel
ATTENDEES:
2300
PRESS:
Open
SCENARIO:
THE PRESIDENT arrives Sheraton Center Hotel and
is met by Mr. Andrew Katz, Sheraton Hotel Manager;
and Mr. Edward Kane, Catering Manager; and
Mr. Michael Warren, Banquet Manager. Upon conclusion of
greeting, THE PRESIDENT proceeds to the Presidential Suite for
Private Time. Note: Mrs. Bush will arrive at the Sheraton Hotel
Presidential Suite at 3:30 pm. Upon conclusion of private time,
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush will proceed to the Third Floor
Georgian Ballroom and will be met there by Mr. Christopher Edley,
President of United Negro College Fund and Hugh Cullman, Chairman
of the Board, United Negro College Fund. THE PRESIDENT and Mrs.
Bush will participate in a Photo Receiving Line opportunity with
200 assembled VIP reception guests. Upon conclusion of the
Receiving Line, THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush will proceed to the
Holding Room.
Photo Copy Preservation
THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush will depart the Holding Room and
proceed to the second floor off-stage announcement area. After a
brief hold, THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush will be announced on to
Stage by an off-stage announcement and proceed to Seats.
Newscaster Charlayne Hunter-Gault will be introduced to the
Podium by an off-stage announcement. Ms. Gault will introduce
Dr. James Costen and Mr. Houston Owens for the purpose of the
Invocation and the National Anthem. Upon conclusion of the
National Anthem, Ms. Gault will introduce Joseph Williams for the
purpose of a presentation to Lawrence Rawl. Following the
presentation, Ms. Gault will introduce Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook for
the purpose of a presentation to Congressman Hawkins. Mr.
Christopher Edley is introduced by Ms. Gault for a presentation to
singer/composer Paul Simon. After the completion of the
presentation, Ms. Gault will introduce Mr. Michael Jordan for the
purpose of an introduction of THE PRESIDENT. THE PRESIDENT will
Remark. Upon conclusion of Remarks, Ms. Gault will introduce Mr.
Hugh Cullman, Mr. Christopher Edley, Mrs. Adele Hall, and Mr.
Willie Robinson who will present a glass sculpture to THE
PRESIDENT and a book to Mrs. Bush.
Upon conclusion of the gift presentation, THE PRESIDENT and Mrs.
Bush depart the Stage and proceed to the Holding Room. After a
brief hold, THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart Holding Room and
proceed to the Motorcade. THE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Bush depart
the Sheraton Center Hotel en route John F. Kennedy International
Airport.
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DIAGRAMS
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JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRPORT
New York, New York
March 9, 1989
Press 727
Guard Booth
Air Force One
Equipment
Motorcade
0000
Pan Am
Impound Lot
good
Press
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
Photo Copy Preservation
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Drug Enforcement Administration
Arrival/Departure Diagram
Thursday, March 9. 1989
57th Street
11th Avenue
Staff
Elevator
X
Garage Arrival
at D.E.A.
Pres.
Elevator
El
Limo
58th Street
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
Photo Copy Preservation
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Drug Enforcement Administration
19th Floor
Thursday, March 9. 1989
Pres.
Elevator
Holding
Room
Staircase
Conference
Room
Tables
Executive
Senior
Staff
Staff
Security
Office
Room
Holding
Holding
KEY:
THE-PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Drug Enforcement Administration
Remarks to DEA Agents
18th Floor
Thursday, March 9, 1989
Staircase
Overflow
Crowd
Viewing
Room
Stage
D.E.A. Agents Seated
Press Platform
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
Photo Copy Preservation
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Sheraton Central
United Negro College Fund Reception
Georgian Ballroom
Thursday. March 9, 1989
Embassy
Holding
A
B
Suite
Room
Elevator
Georgian Ballroom
Reception
Regency
Room
Ballroom
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
Photo Copy Preservation
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Sheraton Center
United Negro College Fund Dinner
Imperial Ballroom
Thursday, March 9, 1989
53rd Street
Head Table
Podium
Press Pool
Imperial Ballroom
Stage
Audience
Audience
Versailles
Baliroom
Press
Press
Imperial Foyer
(Second Floor)
KEY:
THE PRESIDENT
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U
THE WHITE HOUSE
washington
March 7, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS A. WINSTON
FROM:
WILLIAM L. ROPER WRR
SUBJECT:
Draft Presidential Remarks: DEA NY Field Office
I have reiviewed the draft remarks for this drug event.
It is firm and very tough, appropriately so.
I have two suggestions:
Page three, paragraph four, it should be " Bennett's
drug prevention program. "
Page six, paragraph four, it should similarly be
"
"$1.1 billion of my request will go for prevention,
If you have further questions, I would be pleased to
help.
CC: James W. Cicconi
014251ss
MASTERI
Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/7/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/7/89 5:00 PM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE no comment
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN minor
STUDDERT Docomment
BATES minor
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN nocomment
ROGERS
WINSTON
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
DEMAREST
BENNETT on masterI
FITZWATER
GRIFFITH nocomment
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Tuesday, March 7, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Sorry about the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally)
March 6, 1989
Draft One
REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
MARCH 9, 1989
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher -- to all the Assistant and
Associate SAC's (("SACKS")), Group Supervisors, Special Agents,
Task Force officers and prosecutors gathered here today -- thank
you for honoring me with your presence. You have important work
to do, and I will not stay you long.
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York city, the war on drugs is no metaphor.
Before we could bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer
was gunned down, felled by a single shot fired point blank
beneath his bullet-proof vest. As we speak, those accused of
ambushing Eddie Byrne are standing trial in this city. And this
week the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's
funeral is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about
the attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I
telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital, and share your
relief that he's recovering so well. Last week, Matthew Byrne
joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And earlier
today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher, a woman
of considerable dignity and strength.
It has been quite an education. I understand the unique and
dangerous challenges that DEA faces in New York. This area leads
the nation in overall consumption, distribution and importation
of narcotics, run by a well-armed cross-section of ethnic groups
as diverse as the city itself. Your role in this battle is very
special. If the legions of state and local police officers
represent the infantrymen in this effort, then the DEA is
something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of narcotics
enforcement.
Like Everett Hatcher, most of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs.
Let's talk about the terror.
It used to be unthinkable to shoot a federal agent.
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season-
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too, and the
Bannett
killers of Everett Hatcher may well become the first New York
criminals to face execution in over 25 years. It's about time.
The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
legislation has been vetoed.
That's not right. New York policemen deserve all the
protection that tough laws can offer.
They -- and you -- also deserve to be better armed and
better armored than the bad guys you must face. As one DEA agent
summarized his simple rule of street survival: "Walk softly, and
carry a big, mean SMG." ((DEA jargon for new "Sub-Machine
Guns"))
In a moment I want to tell you something about Bill
Bennett's drug education program. But first, I'd like to ask
your help in a little remedial education program of our own. Its
target is drug dealers. The message is simple:
You shoot a cop, and you will be severely punished, fast,
and quite possibly with your life.
new word not Presidential!
Bennett
Druggies used to know that. But with 25 years since
anyone's faced the death penalty in this state, they may have
gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately we all must choose between evil and good. Our
new weapons and our new laws mean that any druggies holding guns
Same
better choose fast. And they damned well better choose right.
The killing must stop.
of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
of all those in the United States. In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependant on crack or cocaine.
Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50-
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide. Last year, you
seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total. In
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
Still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
mind-numbing, at times meaningless, like the body counts in
Vietnam. And as we learned in Southeast Asia, wars aren't won by
statistics or body counts. Wars are won by winning battles, and
in this war, battles are won by putting particular drug
organizations our of business. It's done the old-fashioned way,
one group at a time.
You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. The Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
conference with powder on the table. Each of these cases
represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
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sophisticated, long-term investigation S several were among the
first cases in the country to make use of the new drug kingpin
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interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of cutbacks and
freezes, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays
to fund these new efforts.
For you in federal law enforcement, our proposal budgets a
record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total. We also
intend to double the funding for federal prisons by 1995. Simply
put, prison overcrowding and weak judges have caused too many
criminals to go free after little or no punishment. Indeed,
neither of the suspects in last week's killings had any business
being out on the street in the first place -- one was a paroled
killer, and the other had twice been arrested for assaulting
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month, the amateur night performances were interrupted by
spontaneous anti-drug messages from the stage and chants from the
crowd.
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programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
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work here. The Pizza Connection II trial, the Johnny Kahn and
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them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
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Document No.
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
3/7/89
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 3/7/89 5:00 PM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTIONIFY!
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
WINSTON
CARD
PINKERTON
CICCONI
BENNETT
DEMAREST
GRIFFITH
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Tuesday, March 7, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Sorry about the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally)
March 6, 1989
Draft One
REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
MARCH 9, 1989
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher -- to all the Assistant and
Associate SAC's (("SACKS")), Group Supervisors, Special Agents,
Task Force officers and prosecutors gathered here today -- thank
you for honoring me with your presence. You have important work
KEEP
Hand
to do, and I will not stay you long.
A624
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York city, the war on drugs is no metaphor.
Before we could bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer
was gunned down, felled by a single shot fired point blank
beneath his bullet-proof vest. As we speak, those accused of
ambushing Eddie Byrne are standing trial in this city. And this
week the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's
funeral is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about
the attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I
telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital, and share your
relief that he's recovering so well. Last week, Matthew Byrne
joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And earlier
today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher, a woman
of considerable dignity and strength.
It has been quite an education. I understand the unique and
dangerous challenges that DEA faces in New York. This area leads
Road
the nation in overall consumption, distribution and importation
of narcotics, run by a well-armed cross-section of ethnic groups
mention?
as diverse as the city itself. Your role in this battle is very
special. If the legions of state and local police officers
represent the infantrymen in this effort, then the DEA is
something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of narcotics
enforcement.
Like Everett Hatcher, most of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs.
Let's talk about the terror.
It used to be unthinkable to shoot a federal agent.
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too, and the
killers of Everett Hatcher may well become the first New York
criminals to face execution in over 25 years. It's about time.
The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
legislation has been vetoed.
That's not right. New York policemen deserve all the
protection that tough laws can offer.
They -- and you -- also deserve to be better armed and
better armored than the bad guys you must face. As one DEA agent
summarized his simple rule of street survival: "Walk softly, and
carry a big, mean SMG." ((DEA jargon for new "Sub-Machine
Guns") )
In a moment I want to tell you something about Bill
Bennett's drug education program. But first, I'd like to ask
your help in a little remedial education program of our own. Its
target is drug dealers. The message is simple:
You shoot a cop, and you will be severely punished, fast,
and quite possibly with your life.
it's been
Druggies used to know that. But with 25 years since
Holen
anyone rus faced S the death penalty in this state, they may have
gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately we all must choose between evil and good. Our
new weapons and our new laws mean that any druggies holding guns
better choose fast. And they damned well better choose right.
The killing must stop.
of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
of all those in the United States. In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependant on crack or cocaine.
Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide. Last year, you
seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total. In
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures. or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
Hoka?
mind-numbing, at times meaningless like the body counts in
5178
Vietnam.
And as we learned in Southeast Asia, wars aren't won by
statistics or body counts. Wars are won by winning battles, and
in this war, battles are won by putting particular drug
organizations our of business. It's done the old-fashioned way,
one group at a time.
You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. The Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
conference with powder on the table. Each of these cases
represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
Most importantly, each of these cases involved the kind of
Howard
sophisticated, long-term investigation several were among the
4624
first cases in the country to make use of the new drug kingpin
statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and the
pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to spectacular
effect: The forfeitures from the Torres brothers may ultimately
total $30 - 50 million.
Just as the death penalty for cop killers helps make the
odds more even, stripping our enemies of their ill-gotten gains
turns the tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps
you've heard Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in
America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends
very little on office supplies."
Sometime during the years following our withdrawal from
Southeast Asia, the American people made a solemn, unspoken
pledge to the troops like you who defend our freedom on the front
lines: We will never again ask you to fight in an action we do
not intend to win.
Ladies and gentlemen: We do intend to win. This scourge
will end.
And although we meet on a crucial battlefield of this war,
Hale
it is a war that is being waged on many fronts. Last month, I
3120
spoke to Congress about four areas: Treatment, education, z) rehabilitation
1)
4) tough drug Sentencing 3) law
interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of cutbacks and
freezes, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays
to fund these new efforts.
For you in federal law enforcement, our proposal budgets a
record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total.
We also
intend to double the funding for federal prisons by 1995
Simply
put, prison overcrowding and weak judges have caused too many
James
Hale
criminals to go free after little or no punishment. Indeed,
neither of the suspects in last week's killings had any business
7:15
being out on the street in the first place -- one was a paroled
3/7
killer, and the other had twice been arrested for assaulting
policemen. It's outrageous. And it must stop.
Beyond enforcement, other moneys will go to expanded
Raul
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over -5,000
5094
babies born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative
oral methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital,
designed to get the addicts off needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about the
responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
Holar 5178
users must bear for her husband's death. Well, $1.1 billion of
and prevention
my request will go for education, in an initiative led by Bill
Bennett, who I hope will soon be the nation's first drug czar.
While there may not be light at the end of the tunnel, there
does seem to be some light coming in under the door. Earlier
this week I visited successful education programs in Pennsylvania
and Delaware. At the Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last
month, the amateur night performances were interrupted by
spontaneous anti-drug messages from the stage and chants from the
crowd.
Things like this don't happen because of government
programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
Attitudes are beginning to change overseas as well. Your
boss the Attorney General returns today from meetings with
officials in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, and I will be briefed by
him tomorrow. I know that many of you have also served or will
serve your own tours in South America, a tribute to our increased
cooperation.
Obviously, the race is far from won. But there is power in
us yet. We in Washington will continue to watch and support your
work here. The Pizza Connection II trial, the Johnny Kahn and
Brooks Davis cases, the new seizure program in which whole
apartment buildings are wrested back from the crack lords who
control them -- all are important to the fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. We must
repeat it until we are hoarse, repeat it until we are heard.
From the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to the
weak-kneed judges who don't seem to understand what it is you are
up against out there on the street: The killing must stop.
There is no higher horror than what happened on the streets
of Staten Island last week. Which means you have an important
task ahead.
The cowards who murdered Everett Hatcher should be given no
rest. But be careful out there. Remember the tearful salute of
brave nine-year-old Zachery. And find these criminals. Bring
them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
May God look after you, and God bless the United States.
Chuss Waston
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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DATE:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTIONIFYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
STUDDERT
BATES
UNTERMEYER
BREEDEN
ROGERS
CARD
WINSTON
PINKERTON
CICCONI
BENNETT
DEMAREST
GRIFFITH
FITZWATER
GRAY
HAGIN
REMARKS:
Please forward : any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm.
122, x2930, by 5:00 PM TODAY, Tuesday, March 7, 1989, with
an info copy to my office. Sorry about the short turnaround.
Thank you.
RESPONSE:
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
(McNally)
March 6, 1989
Draft One
REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
MARCH 9, 1989
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher -- to all the Assistant and
Associate SAC's (("SACKS")), Group Supervisors, Special Agents,
Task Force officers and prosecutors gathered here today -- thank
you for honoring me with your presence. You have important work
to do, and I will not stay you long.
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York city, the war on drugs is no metaphor.
Before we could bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer
was gunned down, felled by a single shot fired point blank
beneath his bullet-proof vest. As we speak, those accused of
ambushing Eddie Byrne are standing trial in this city. And this
week the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's
funeral is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about
the attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I
telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital, and share your
relief that he's recovering so well. Last week, Matthew Byrne
joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And earlier
today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher, a woman
of considerable dignity and strength.
It has been quite an education. I understand the unique and
dangerous challenges that DEA faces in New York. This area leads
the nation in overall consumption, distribution and importation
of narcotics, run by a well-armed cross-section of ethnic groups
as diverse as the city itself. Your role in this battle is very
special. If the legions of state and local police officers
represent the infantrymen in this effort, then the DEA is
something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of narcotics
enforcement.
Like Everett Hatcher, most of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs.
Let's talk about the terror.
It used to be unthinkable to shoot a federal agent.
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too, and the
killers of Everett Hatcher may well become the first New York
criminals to face execution in over 25 years. It's about time.
The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
legislation has been vetoed.
That's not right. New York policemen deserve all the
protection that tough laws can offer.
They -- and you -- also deserve to be better armed and
better armored than the bad guys you must face. As one DEA agent
summarized his simple rule of street survival: "Walk softly, and
carry a big, mean SMG." ((DEA jargon for new "Sub-Machine
Guns") )
In a moment I want to tell you something about Bill
Bennett's drug education program. But first, I'd like to ask
your help in a little remedial education program of our own. Its
target is drug dealers. The message is simple:
You shoot a cop, and you will be severely punished, fast,
and quite possibly with your life.
Druggies used to know that. But with 25 years since
anyone's faced the death penalty in this state, they may have
gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately we all must choose between evil and good. Our
new weapons and our new laws mean that any druggies holding guns
better choose fast. And they damned well better choose right.
The killing must stop.
of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
of all those in the United States. In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependant on crack or cocaine.
Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide. Last year, you
seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total. In
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
Still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
mind-numbing, at times meaningless, like the body counts in
Vietnam. And as we learned in Southeast Asia, wars aren't won by
statistics or body counts. Wars are won by winning battles, and
in this war, battles are won by putting particular drug
organizations our of business. It's done the old-fashioned way,
one group at a time.
You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. The Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
conference with powder on the table. Each of these cases
represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
Most importantly, each of these cases involved the kind of
sophisticated, long-term investigation several were among the
first cases in the country to make use of the new drug kingpin
statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and the
and targeting the financial support mechanisms,
pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to spectacular
effect: The forfeitures from the Torres brothers may ultimately
total $30 - 50 million.
Just as the death penalty for cop killers helps make the
odds more even, stripping our enemies of their ill-gotten gains
turns the tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps
you've heard Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in
America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends
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Ladies and gentlemen: We do intend to win. This scourge
will end.
And although we meet on a crucial battlefield of this war,
it is a war that is being waged on many fronts. Last month, I
spoke to Congress about four areas: Treatment, education,
interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of cutbacks and
freezes, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays
to fund these new efforts.
For you in federal law enforcement, our proposal budgets a
record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total. We also
intend to double the funding for federal prisons by 1995. Simply
put, prison overcrowding and weak judges have caused too many
criminals to go free after little or no punishment. Indeed,
neither of the suspects in last week's killings had any business
being out on the street in the first place -- one was a paroled
killer, and the other had twice been arrested for assaulting
policemen. It's outrageous. And it must stop.
Beyond enforcement, other moneys will go to expanded
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over 5,000
babies born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative
oral methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital,
designed to get the addicts off needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about the
responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
users must bear for her husband's death. Well, $1.1 billion of
my request will go for education, in an initiative led by Bill
Bennett, who I hope will soon be the nation's first drug czar.
While there may not be light at the end of the tunnel, there
does seem to be some light coming in under the door. Earlier
this week I visited successful education programs in Pennsylvania
and Delaware. At the Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last
month, the amateur night performances were interrupted by
spontaneous anti-drug messages from the stage and chants from the
crowd.
Things like this don't happen because of government
programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
Attitudes are beginning to change overseas as well. Your
boss the Attorney General returns today from meetings with
officials in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, and I will be briefed by
him tomorrow. I know that many of you have also served or will
serve your own tours in South America, a tribute to our increased
cooperation.
Obviously, the race is far from won. But there is power in
us yet. We in Washington will continue to watch and support your
work here. The Pizza Connection II trial, the Johnny Kahn and
financial enformement
Brooks Davis cases, the new seizure programs in which whole
apartment buildings are wrested back from the crack lords who
control them -- all are important to the fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. We must
repeat it until we are hoarse, repeat it until we are heard.
From the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to the
weak-kneed judges who don't seem to understand what it is you are
up against out there on the street: The killing must stop.
There is no higher horror than what happened on the streets
of Staten Island last week. Which means you have an important
task ahead.
The cowards who murdered Everett Hatcher should be given no
rest. But be careful out there. Remember the tearful salute of
brave nine-year-old Zachery. And find these criminals. Bring
them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
May God look after you, and God bless the United States.
Pinberton
comments
(McNally)
March 6, 1989
Draft One
REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
MARCH 9, 1989
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher -- to all the Assistant and
Associate SAC's (("SACKS")), Group Supervisors, Special Agents,
Task Force officers and prosecutors gathered here today -- thank
you for honoring me with your presence. You have important work
to do, and I will not stay you long.
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York city, the war on drugs is no metaphor.
Before we could bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer
was gunned down, felled by a single shot fired point blank
beneath his bullet-proof vest. As we speak, those accused of
ambushing Eddie Byrne are standing trial in this city. And this
week the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's
funeral is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about
the attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I
telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital, and share your
relief that he's recovering so well. Last week, Matthew Byrne
joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And earlier
today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher, a woman
of considerable dignity and strength.
It has been quite an education. I understand the unique and
dangerous challenges that DEA faces in New York. This area leads
the nation in overall consumption, distribution and importation
of narcotics, run by a well-armed cross-section of ethnic groups
as diverse as the city itself. Your role in this battle is very
special. If the legions of state and local police officers
represent the infantrymen in this effort, then the DEA is
something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of narcotics
enforcement.
Like Everett Hatcher, most of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs. of terror
Let's talk about the terror.
talk terms
It used to be unthinkable to shoot a federal agent.
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too, and the
killers of Everett Hatcher may well become the first New York
criminals to face execution in over 25 years. It's about time.
The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
legislation has been vetoed.
That's not right. New York policemen deserve all the
protection that tough laws can offer.
They -- and you -- also deserve to be better armed and
better armored than the bad guys you must face. As one DEA agent
summarized his simple rule of street survival: "Walk softly, and
aking AK talk
carry a big, mean SMG." ((DEA jargon for new "Sub-Machine
Guns"))
In a moment I want to tell you something about Bill
Bennett's drug education program. But first, I'd like to ask
your help in a little remedial education program of our own. Its
target is drug dealers. The message is simple:
You shoot a cop, and you will be severely punished, fast,
and quite possibly with your life.
Druggies used to know that. But with 25 years since
anyone's faced the death penalty in this state, they may have
gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately we all must choose between evil and good. Our
new weapons and our new laws mean that any druggies holding guns
better choose fast. And they damned well better choose right.
The killing must stop.
of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
of all those in the United States. In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependant on crack or cocaine.
Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide. Last year, you
seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total. In
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
Still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
mind-numbing, at times meaningless, like the body counts in
Vietnam. And as we learned in Southeast Asia, wars aren't won by
statistics or body counts. Wars are won by winning battles, and
in this war, battles are won by putting particular drug
organizations our of business. It's done the old-fashioned way,
one group at a time.
You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. The Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
conference with powder on the table. Each of these cases
represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
Most importantly, each of these cases involved the kind of
sophisticated, long-term investigation several were among the
first cases in the country to make use of the new drug kingpin
statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and the
pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to spectacular
effect: The forfeitures from the Torres brothers may ultimately
total $30 - 50 million.
Just as the death penalty for cop killers helps make the
odds more even, stripping our enemies of their ill-gotten gains
turns the tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps
you've heard Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in
America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends
very little on office supplies."
Sometime during the years following our withdrawal from
Southeast Asia, the American people made a solemn, unspoken
pledge to the troops like you who defend our freedom on the front
lines: We will never again ask you to fight in an action we do
not intend to win.
Ladies and gentlemen: We do intend to win. This scourge
will end.
And although we meet on a crucial battlefield of this war,
it is a war that is being waged on many fronts. Last month, I
spoke to Congress about four areas: Treatment, education,
interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of cutbacks and
freezes, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays
to fund these new efforts.
For you in federal law enforcement, our proposal budgets a
record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total. We also
intend to double the funding for federal prisons by 1995. Simply
put, prison overcrowding and weak judges have caused too many
criminals to go free after little or no punishment. Indeed,
neither of the suspects in last week's killings had any business
being out on the street in the first place -- one was a paroled
killer, and the other had twice been arrested for assaulting
policemen. It's outrageous. And it must stop.
Beyond enforcement, other moneys will go to expanded
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over 5,000
babies born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative
oral methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital,
designed to get the addicts off needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about the
responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
users must bear for her husband's death. Well, $1.1 billion of
my request will go for education, in an initiative led by Bill
Bennett, who I hope will soon be the nation's first drug czar.
While there may not be light at the end of the tunnel, there
does seem to be some light coming in under the door. Earlier
this week I visited successful education programs in Pennsylvania
and Delaware. At the Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last
month, the amateur night performances were interrupted by
spontaneous anti-drug messages from the stage and chants from the
crowd.
Things like this don't happen because of government
programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
Attitudes are beginning to change overseas as well. Your
boss the Attorney General returns today from meetings with
officials in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, and I will be briefed by
him tomorrow. I know that many of you have also served or will
serve your own tours in South America, a tribute to our increased
cooperation.
Obviously, the race is far from won. But there is power in
us yet. We in Washington will continue to watch and support your
work here. The Pizza Connection II trial, the Johnny Kahn and
Brooks Davis cases, the new seizure program in which whole
apartment buildings are wrested back from the crack lords who
control them -- all are important to the fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. We must
repeat it until we are hoarse, repeat it until we are heard.
From the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to the
weak
kneed
judges who don't seem to understand what it is you are
up against out there on the street: The killing must stop.
There is no higher horror than what happened on the streets
of Staten Island last week. Which means you have an important
task ahead.
The cowards who murdered Everett Hatcher should be given no
rest. But be careful out there. Remember the tearful salute of
brave nine-year-old Zachery. And find these criminals. Bring
them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
May God look after you, and God bless the United States.
FINAL REPORT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING AND RELATED CRIMES
IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
BENITO ROMANO
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
MARCH 1, 1989
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Table of Contents
Page
INTRODUCTION
1
Part I:
TRENDS IN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
2
1.
Heroin
2
2.
Cocaine and Crack
10
3.
Dangerous Drugs
17
PART II: NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF EW YORK
17
1.
Heroin Organizations
19
2.
Cocaine and Crack Prosecutions
53
3.
Other Controlled Substances
60
4.
Forfeiture Program
63
PART III: SELECTED MONEY-LAUNDERING CASE REPORTS
66
PART IV: THE IMPACT OF NARCOTICS USE AND TRAFFICKING
IN NEW YORK CITY
1.
Heroin
69
2.
Cocaine and Crack
71
3.
Violence
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4.
Financial Impact
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INTRODUCTION
New York City's ethnic diversity is reflected in the
scope and diversity of the narcotics trafficking organizations
that now plague it. Just as the City prides itself for putting
willing sellers together with willing buyers in legitimate
commercial ventures, so it provides international traffickers
with a ready market for their heroin and cocaine, and willing
volunteers to manage distribution. The depressed areas of the
City -- Harlem, the South Bronx, and the Lower East Side -- have
long included large addict populations, but recent social trends
have created new user groups in every socio-economic level.
Investigations have shown that cocaine is as readily available on
Wall Street as it is on Upper Broadway. As serious and devas-
tating as the problem of narcotics use in the New York area is,
perhaps the most frightening aspect of the area's narcotics
plague has been the level of violence associated with both large
and small-scale traffickers. The cold-blooded attacks, often
fatal, on law enforcement personnel and suspected informants by
these traffickers, as well as their readiness to accept the
murder of innocent bystanders as a "cost of doing business" have
shocked the City and belie the received wisdom that traffickers
kill only their own.
At the outset, it must be stressed that the drug
problems of New York City, the chief but not sole concern of the
Southern District of New York's Narcotics Unit, is one that
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crosses federal district lines. The United States Attorney's
Offices in the Southern District of New York and the Eastern
District of New York work with the same federal, state and local
enforcement authorities and, in many cases, target related
trafficking organizations. Close cooperation between and among
the two Offices and other enforcement authorities, however, has
ensured that overlapping concerns have led to aᵢ more effective
enforcement effort, without redundancy. In addition, the
Southern District, especially its White Plains office, has
rigorously pursued trafficking in the District's northern sector,
all the way to Poughkeepsie.
While the Southern District of New York has targeted
illegal traffic in a variety of controlled substances, its chief
concerns have been trafficking in heroin, cocaine, and "crack"
(an especially potent derivative of cocaine).
PART I:
TRENDS IN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
1. HEROIN
The significance of New York's heroin problem cannot be
overstated. Current estimates indicate that the City of New York
and the Hudson Valley have 214,000 heroin addicts, 43% of the
nationwide total of 490,000. DEA/New York is responsible for
30%-50% of DEA's nationwide total quantity of heroin seized each
year. In FY 1986, DEA's nationwide heroin removals totalled
363.7 kilograms of which DEA/New York accounted for 174.3
kilograms (49.3%) In FY 1987, DEA seized 368.2 kilograms of
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heroin, with DEA/New York responsible for 174.5 kilograms
(47.4%). Preliminary seizure figures for FY 1988 indicate
DEA/New York heroin removals rose to 249.3 kilograms, 32.1% of
DEA's nationwide total of 777.5 kilograms, much of which, while
not seized in New York, was destined here.
Heroin continues to be readily available at both the
wholesale and retail levels in the New York City area. Heroin is
also available in the less affluent sections of lower Westchester
County. Its availability is much more limited in the rural areas
of New York. Rural heroin is generally obtained in New York City
street purchases and then returned to the rural area via auto,
bus, or train to be used by the buyer and other addicts who may
have pooled money for the purchase. Many of these rural addicts
once lived in New York City and took their addiction with them
when they moved.
Analysis of seizures, investigative activity and source
information strongly indicates that ethnic Chinese violators are
solidifying their position as the dominant force in heroin
importation and wholesaling in New York City. However,
traditional Organized Crime figures (members and associates of La
Cosa Nostra), Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians, Lebanese, and
Israelis remain prominent in the heroin trade, with Turks and
Ghanians also playing significant roles.
The Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand, and
mainland China, dominate the heroin traffic from Southeast Asia
to New York. Ethnic Chinese in Latin American countries such as
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the Bronx. These organizations also sell in bundles as well as
dime bags. Their operation is not as open as the Lower East
Side. On the Lower East Side, people ("steerers") will solicit
their own brand names. Each block in the Lower East Side will
sell a different brand, but distributors from each block will not
necessarily be from a different organization. Most organizations
control several brand names which are sold in their own control-
led areas or territory. The different organizations tend to work
in harmony in these areas; there have been few homicides. In
Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, business is not as open as in the
Lower East Side. In these areas, the main business is bundle
sales rather than dime bags. Heroin purity in these areas is not
as high as the Lower East Side, but the heroin is identified by
brand names like in the Lower East Side.
2.
COCAINE AND CRACK
New York has always been the nations's primary heroin
market. Now its poupulation and slightly higher cocaine price
have made it the nation's top cocaine market. With the largest
metropolitan pouplation, New York City provides the largest base
of potential consumers. Also, as the price of cocaine has
significantly dropped across the nation, New York's cocaine price
has remained $3,000 - $5,000 per kilogram higher than the price
in major importation areas such as Miami and San Diego. The
slightly higher New York price, now more than ever before,
provides the trafficker with an incentive to bring large
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(also sought on United States warrants). The Medellin Cartel has
become known for its frequent use of violence and assassination
as a means of revenge and intimidation against other trafficking
and government officials. The Medellin attempts to enter the New
York market and the Cali shipment increases have complicated
enforcement problems over the last 18 months. During FY 1988,
DEA/New York seized over 7,900 kilograms of cocaine -- this is
more than the previous eight fiscal years combined. DEA/New York
has also identified another 2,240 kilograms seized elsewhere by
DEA as destined for New York -- aggregating, for a total of
10,140 kilograms seized in or destined for New York (almost 20%
of DEA's preliminary FY 1988 nationwide total of 52,000 kilograms
seized and a dramatic rise over the FY 1986 and FY 1987 percen-
tages, which were estimated at 6-7% percent).
While Colombian nationals have long dominated the
supply side, there has also been a noticeable increase in the
number of cocaine cases involving traditional Organized Crime
figures or individuals with connections to traditional Organized
Crime families. These traditional Organized Crime associates, no
longer exclusively lower level, are involved in multi-kilogram
cocaine distribution in New York and on the East Coast. Hispanic
groups, primarily Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, are involved at
the lower lever and street distribution stages. Dominican
traffickers continue to increase their involvement in higher
level trafficking patterns, including importation. Colombian
traffickers have been identified as using sites in the Dominican
Republic to manufacture cocaine because of easier access to
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3.
DANGEROUS DRUGS
Illicitly manufactured dangerous drugs continue to be
found in the less urban areas of New York State. Dangerous drugs
are not a significant problem in New York City with the exception
of PCP or "Angel Dust. " PCP continues to be available in areas
of New York City and most prominently in Harlem. PCP prices
have not changed; it sells for approximately $1,200 per ounce and
$8 to $10 for an "envelope" containing five grains. PCP can also
be purchased sprinkled on mint or parsley leaves for $7 - $10 per
"bag." A significant quantity of the PCP available in New York
is believed to originate in California.
LSD investigations at the federal, state, or local
level in New York City are rare, since the level of availability
is not sufficient to support significant enforcement activity.
There has been recent press interest in the controlled substance
analog MDMA (3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) whose street
name is "Ecstasy. If However, "Ecstasy" use appears to be limited
to a small number of abusers in Manhattan who are supplied from
clandestine laboratories in California and Texas: Illegally
produced mescaline, counterfeit quaaludes and depressants are
found only in small quantities when available.
PART II:
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT NEW YORK
In the past five years, the narcotics prosecutions in
the Southern District of New York have succeeded in eliminating a
series of major dealers and their networks who trafficked in
heroin, cocaine and "crack, " as well as other controlled
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to 15 years' imprisonment, $50,000 in fines, and $100,000
restitution; Salvatore Greco was sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment and $200,000 in fines; Francesco Castronovo was
sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, $350,000 in fines and
$200,000 restitution; Francesco Polizzi was sentenced to 20
years' imprisonment, $50,000 in fines and $200,000 restitution;
and Filippo Casamento was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment,
$75,000 in fines and $200,000 restitution; Emanuele Palazzolo
was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and $50,000 in fines;
Giovanni Cangialosi was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and
$50,000 in fines; Salvatore Salamone was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment; Giuseppe Trupiano was sentenced to one year
imprisonment to be followed by five years' probation; and
Giuseppe Vitale was sentenced to five years' imprisonment to be
followed by five years' probation.
TORRES
b) The "Torres" Organization
United States V. Victor Torres, et al.,
S 87 Cr. 593 (JMW)
The Torres case, an "OCDETF" [The New York/New Jersey
Region of the Presidential Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force] effort, represented an outstanding combination of
convictions and forfeitures which ended the operation of a major
heroin organization in the South Bronx responsible for annual
heroin sales of more than $10 million.
On July 6, 1988, after a 2½ month trial, a jury found
Victor Torres, age 26, his brother Jorge Torres, age 31, and
Nelson Flores, age 33, guilty of violating the recently enacted
amendment to the "kingpin" statute (21 U.S.C. § 848(b)).
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mandating life imprisonment without parole for the principal
leaders of large-scale continuing narcotics enterprises. The
jury's verdict represented the first conviction under the amended
"kingpin" statute in the New York area and one of the first such
convictions in the country.
The proof at trial showed that the Torres brothers
presided over a massive street-level heroin distribution
operation in the South Bronx and then invested the proceeds of
their heroin trafficking in various legitimate businesses in
Puerto Rico. As the Torres brothers devoted increasing attention
to these legitimate businesses in Puerto Rico, they turned over
the day-to-day operation of their heroin business in the South
Bronx to Flores, who managed it on their behalf.
Typical of New York heroin operations, the organization
maintained "stash houses" (storage areas) and "cutting mills"
(preparation and packaging sites). The heroin was packaged in
$10 bags (glassine envelopes) stamped with the organization's
brand names: "Checkmate," "Top Secret, " and "357. " Bundles of
the bags were then doled out to the street managers and in turn
to "pitchers," retailers selling to the City's addict population
In addition to their conviction on the amended kingpi:
charge, the Torreses and Flores were convicted, along with nine
of their co-defendants, of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
A
variety of the defendants also were convicted of one or more
substantive narcotics violations and the use and carrying of a
firearm in connection with narcotics trafficking. The Torres
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brothers also were convicted of tax evasion for the calendar
years 1983 through 1986.
After the original verdict, the jury returned one of
the largest forfeiture verdicts since enactment of the federal
narcotics forfeiture laws, effectively stripping the Torres
brothers of their ill-gotten gains. The United States obtained a
multi-million dollar shopping center and bowling alley complex in
Bayamon, Puerto Rico, three gas stations in and around the
Bayamon area, seven homes, four other pieces of real estate in
various parts of Puerto Rico, more than a half million dollars in
cash, and seven luxury cars, including a $160,000 Lamborghini
sports car. The total value of the Torres forfeitures was
estimated to range between $30 and 50 million.
c)
The "Monsanto" Crew
MONSANTO
United States V. Peter Monsanto, et al.,
87 Cr. 555 (RJW).
The verdict in the Monsanto case returned on July 25,
1988, represented the culmination of a enormous effort on the
part of this Office and a combination of "OCDETF" law enforcement
agencies against a powerful and exceedingly violent heroin
enterprise. The Government's case during the seven-month trial
showed that the "Monsanto" organization had for many years
peddled heroin on a massive scale all along the East Coast --
from Boston to Baltimore. The violence in support of the crew's
heroin trafficking included at least three brutal homicides.
The Monsanto organization was pyramidal in structure,
from the boss at the pinnacle, down to crew chiefs, top
lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, and finally to the street sale
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organizations. Counting the low level workers, the organization
was a force numbering in the 100s. The Monsanto crewis product
came to be recognized on the strest by heroin brand names of
"Brown Tape, " "Best Out," "Back in Action," "Dog Day, " "Terror," "
"Get Tough," and "Sudden Death."
The Monsanto crew had evaded earlier detection and
prosecution and it was only through the painstaking collection of
evidence from various local authorities and federal agencies that
the full history of their illegal and violent trade could be
told. The prosecution's efforts included recruiting accomplice
witnesses to testify against their former cohorts and employers,
reviewing coded conversations of the defendants on previously
authorized wiretap interceptions, sifting through the evidence
seized in searches pursuant to warrants of the narcotics
preparations and distributions locales and from earlier arrests
of the crew members, and the tracing of assets garnered in their
lucrative trade.
At trial, the amassed evidence persuaded the jury of
the guilt of brothers Peter and Steven Monsanto, their mother
Miriam Baker, and the top echelons of the crew. Fifteen
defendants were convicted on a variety of charges, including
racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, operation of a continuing
criminal enterprise, narcotics conspiracy, weapons possession,
and tax evasion. The jury also returned verdicts of forfeitures
against the crew's ill-gotten assets totalling approximately
$500,000. The Court sentenced the leader, Peter Monsanto, to
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life imprisonment without parole, and his brother and others of
the Monsanto leadership to 20 to 30-year terms of imprisonment
REITERLSON
d)
The "Mark Reiter" Heroin Supply
REITER/JACKS
United States V. Mark Reiter, et al.
87 Cr. 132 (RO)
Mark Reiter, was convicted with four others on August
25, 1988, of narcotics, racketeering, and tax charges after a
four-month jury trial in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. Reiter was convicted of operating
a continuing criminal enterprise pursuant to Title 21, United
States Code, Section 848, as well as of engaging in racketeering
and narcotics distribution offenses. Also convicted of
racketeering and narcotics offenses were Raymond Clark, Leonard
Rollack, Timothy Smith, and Alfred Dicks.
Reiter was responsible for supplying kilogram
quantities of pure heroin to the primary distributors in Harlem
over an approximately five-year period. Reiter supplied heroin
to James Jackson, Eugene Romero, Peter Monsanto, Ronald Maxwell
a/k/a "Ronald Conquest," Mitchell Jackson, a/k/a "Red Jack, and
Warren Tyson, a/k/a "Otis," a/k/a "Doug," among others. In
September, 1987, Jackson pleaded guilty to narcotics,
racketeering and tax charges and agreed to cooperate with the
Government. In his cooperation, he detailed Reiter's supply of
heroin to his (Jackson's) and several colleagues' organizations.
Jackson became involved in narcotics trafficking in 1980 with
Eugene Romero, the nephew of Leroy "Nicky" Barnes. Romero headed
the enterprise from 1980 through 1983; in 1983, Romero and
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approximately a dozen homicides which had heretofore been
unsolved.
ADAMITA
e)
The "Pizza II" Case
TRIAL
United States V. Emanuel Adamita, et al.
88 Cr. 217 (JES)
Trial began on October 31, 1988, and will continue into
Spring 1989, in United States V. Adamita, et al., on an
indictment charging 17 defendants with conspiracy to import,
distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine
and marijuana. The conspiracy involves several defendants who as
career heroin traffickers had previously eluded law enforcement
and others who have prior heroin trafficking convictions. In
this instance, together they imported heroin from Sicily into the
United States where the demand was the greatest and also exported
cocaine from the United States into Europe where the asking price
was significantly higher. The defendants include those directly
responsible for the importation and distribution of kilogram
quantities of narcotics at the wholesale level. The prosecution
tracked independent undercover investigations conducted by the
FBI and DEA that led to the same group of Sicilian traffickers in
Brooklyn and Queens. This case, in addition to uncovering new
methods for importation and distribution, also includes among its
defendants previously unindicted members of the "Pizza
Connection" case.
BROOKS
f) The "Brooks Davis" Organization
DAVIS
United States V. Brooks Davis, et al.
87 Cr. 853 (TPG)
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Jackson were partners; and from 1983 through 1987 Jackson headed
the enterprise.
Reiter supplied bulk amounts of heroin -- pure heroin
which he then "cut" or diluted by 25% -- to Jackson. Jackson, in
turn, "cut" the heroin, distributing 1/8th and 1/2 kilogram
quantities to his wholesale customers, or "cut" the heroin again
and packaged it in bundles of "quarters" (glassine envelopes of
user-level heroin selling for $25 each), and passed it to his
lieutenants for distribution through the street retailers who
sometimes marked the bags with brand names. The Jackson
organization had 20-25 workers at any time. Jackson testified
that Reiter distributed approximately 45 kilograms of pure heroin
to him, at a cost of between $200-240,000 per kilogram over the
course of their four-year relationship.
But, importantly, the Jackson organization was only one
of the several distribution networks supplied by Reiter. Reiter
supplied as many as nine other distribution operations in the New
York City area -- one of those other organizations was the
"Monsanto Crew, If detailed above.
Further, in the Fall of 1982, Jackson was present at a
meeting in which Mark Reiter ordered the homicides of Beverly
Ash, Barnes's former girlfriend, and her brother, Steven Ash.
Jackson testified that Reiter ordered the homicides to retaliate
against Barnes, who was known to have begun cooperating with the
Government, and to eliminate two potential witnesses against him,
as Reiter had sold heroin to Beverly and Steven Ash. On December
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in the Monarch Bar in Manhattan. On June 9, 1983, the body of
Steven Ash was found floating in the Hudson River. He had
sustained two gunshot wounds to the head at the hands of Raymond
Clark. In their efforts to locate Steven Ash to carry out
Reiter's orders, organization members Eugene Romero and the
defendant Timothy Smith kidnapped, tortured, and killed Ash's
lieutenant, Barry Wilson.
The jury convicted the defendants Reiter, Clark, and
Smith for their participation in the three homicides, which were
charged as acts of racketeering. In addition, the jury convicted
the defendants Smith, Clark, and Rollack for their participation
in one or more of six other homicides or attempted homicides
charged in the Indictment.
Mark Reiter was sentenced to two life sentences without
parole plus 60 years' imprisonment and was fined four million
dollars. Raymond Clark and Leonard Rollack were each sentenced
to 50 years' imprisonment with a recommendation that Clark not be
considered for parole. Dicks was sentenced to 15 years'
imprisonment to be served consecutively to a ten-year sentence he
was already serving. In all, however, the investigation has
resulted in the convictions by guilty pleas or verdicts of
approximately 25 defendants who had been involved in distributing
heroin and cocaine in New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C
and other locations on the East Coast. The successful
prosecution also eliminated a critical link between organized
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BROOKS DAVIS
(CON'D)
In October 1987, after an eighteen-month investigation
using informants, controlled narcotics purchases,
court-authorized wiretaps and searches pursuant to warrant, the
Drug Enforcement Administration, with support from the New York
City Police Department, arrested over twenty members of a
narcotics ring headed by Brooks Davis, a/k/a "Sicle," which had
supplied and distributed heroin and cocaine in Harlem since 1976.
Davis supplied heroin to a number of dealers, each of whom, in
turn controlled a "brand" of heroin (such as: "Brown Sugar,"
"Nightmare on Elm Street," "Silent Partner," and "No Joke"), sold
on the streets by heroin addicts and neighborhood youths.
To date, after one completed trial and numerous guilty
pleas, fifteen defendants have been convicted, including a
corrupt corrections officer at Sing Sing Prison who warned one
target of the investigation that he was the subject of DEA
surveillance. Four defendants, including Brooks Davis, still
await trial, after prior proceedings against them ended in a
mistrial in May 1988. One of the Government's witnesses was
seriously wounded when he was shot two days before jury selection
began. Later, the mistrial was declared after Davis's defense.
lawyer procured an allegedly false recantation from one of the
Government's incarcerated witnesses while the jury was being
selected. A new trial will be begun shortly.
The Government intends to proceed against the remaining
defendants on the previous charges, as well as on new charges
including the attack on the witness.
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the United States prosecution, three French heroin chemists, and
their co-conspirator, were arrested and prosecuted in
Switzerland.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
300-kilogram morphine base importation was the largest single
morphine shipment ever uncovered. Similarly, this case consti-
tuted the first prosecution of a group manufacturing heroin in
the United States. During the course of the investigation, the
Government seized in excess of $1,500,000 in cash. That cash and
over $600,000 in real property were ultimately forfeited to the
United States.
BASED
BALLS
2. COCAINE AND "CRACK" PROSECUTIONS
a) The "Based Balls" Organization
United States V. Santiago Luis Polanco-Rodriguez, et al.
87 Cr. 419 (DNE)
This Office undertook the prosecution of an entire
vertically-integrated organization which distributed cocaine and
"crack" or cocaine base on the streets of New York under the
brand name of "Based Balls. " The initial indictment, which was
unsealed in July, 1987, named 29 defendants. On the 19
defendants who were arrested (others having fled to the Dominican
Republic), 18 pleaded guilty prior to trial, including some high
ranking members of the organization such as, Ramon Del Rosario,
Rafael Joaquin Herrera, Franklin Rodriguez and Jose Pluyer
Dominguez. They were sentenced to terms of 15-20 years'
imprisonment. The lone defendant to proceed to trial, Persio
Torres Nunez, was convicted by a jury on charges of participating
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in a narcotics conspiracy, operating a continuing criminal
enterprise, distributing cocaine, and participating in a
racketeering enterprise and a racketeering conspiracy. Nunez was
subsequently sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 60
years.
The operation had its beginning in the Spring of 1982
in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Santiago Luis
Polanco-Rodriguez began with a small group distributing cocaine
in powder form under the brand name, "Coke It.Is." However, by
the Summer of 1985, the organization Polanco-Rodriguez managed
expanded and began to sell primarily crack under the brand name,
"Based Balls. " Between June 1985 and May 1987, the organization
distributed massive quantities of $10-20 vials of "Based Balls"
crack. The expanded effort took over twelve different sites to
manufacture, store, and sell their product. The leadership
supervised principal lieutenants, stash house and mill personnel,
street managers, delivery workers, and retailers selling to the
"crack" clientele. The upper echelons employed workers to count-
and courier the money received in the sales and then the leaders
transferred their ill-gotten profits out of New York to
individuals and businesses in the Dominican Republic. Others
were employed to exert the force and violence the organization
found necessary to maintain their territory and secure their
riches.
LIDO
b) The "LIDO" Organization
United States V. Corge Ramos, et al.
88 Cr. 133 (KTD)
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LIDO.
The second prosecution of an entire cocaine and "crack"
distribution operation was of Jorge Viohanny Ramos and seventeen
others -- including three of his brothers. The case resulted in
the conviction of a large number of successful "crack" dealers
who had captured part of a neighborhood in the Washington Heights
area of Manhattan in 1986 and 1987. The investigation centered
on a well-organized drug network which operated twenty-four hours
a day, seven days a week, and marketed its narcotics under the
distinctive "LIDO" brand name.
The prosecution targeted those who participated at all
levels of the LIDO organization. Evidence demonstrated that the
LIDO organization consisted of (i) supervisors, (ii) street-level
managers, and (iii) street-level sellers. The street-level
managers, resorting readily to strong-arm tactics, policed their
sales territory and any unauthorized use of the "LIDO"
brand-name. The organization functioned for at least a year and
a half, employing its sellers on three different eight-hour
shifts. The sellers were responsible for the distribution of
thousands of vials of crack, mainly to New Jersey purchasers who
entered Manhattan over the George Washington Bridge solely to
purchase narcotics. They maintained and prospered from four
different locations within their territory where the crack was
sold, manufactured, and stored and their proceeds were secured.
Of the 18 indicted defendants, 16 pleaded guilty prior
to trial, one fled prior to trial, and another was never
apprehended. The leaders of the LIDO organization (the four
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$700,000 in hashish profits, which were frozen in Swiss bank
accounts pursuant to our treaty on Mutual Assistance with
Switzerland. A co-defendant of lesser culpability received a
two-year term of imprisonment and a $20,000 fine.
4. FORFEITURE PROGRAM
In 1987 and 1988, the Narcotics Unit, working with the
Office's asset forfeiture attorneys, undertook an aggressive
effort to seize and forfeit the property used and the assets
accumulated in narcotics trafficking offenses. Some of the
forfeitures have been presented as part of on-going criminal
prosecutions and have been paralleled in simultaneous civil
forfeiture actions. Other forfeiture initiatives have been
brought as civil actions against the real and personal property
in issue.
In the various legal efforts, the Southern District of
New York has successfully forfeited or is in the process of for-
feiting: a shopping mall, residential and farm realty, and auto-
mobiles in Puerto Rican, valued at $30 to $50 million, United
States V. Torres; residences in New York City and Westchester
County, valued at $1 million, United States V. Monsanto;
TORRESFEITURES
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APARTMENT BLDG,
SEIZURES
residences and safe deposit box contents aggregating $1.5
million, United States V. Marquez; as well as fourteen other
properties, including 60-unit apartment buildings in Manhattan,
the Bronx, and Mt. Vernon and specified leaseholds within these
premises, a bar and adjoining premises in Poughkeepsie, a gas
station in Manhattan, an auto repair shop and attached dwelling
in the Bronx, and three apartment leases in public housing in New
York City.
The forfeiture of the public housing leases was a
pi heering effort by this Office taken to remove narcotics
dealers who were able to ply their trade with impunity in public
housing due to the protracted (up to 6 years) eviction procedures
of the New York City Housing Authority. These forfeitures have
made these apartments available to the next families on a list of
over 200,000 eligible individuals waiting for public housing in
the City of New York and rid the buildings of the traffickers who
terrorized the other innocent tenants. This Office's initiative
is now being replicated in similar efforts across the country
Through our forfeiture program, narcotics dealers and
those who allow them to prosper have been put on notice that law
enforcement will use every available legal remedy to eradicate
narcotics trafficking networks in this area.
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Hermena Perlmutter, a well-known New York criminal
defense attorney who had represented a number of marcotics
violators in both the federal and state courts of New York, was
indicted in March, 1986, for currency transaction violations.
The indictment, originally dismissed by the trial court judge,
was later reinstated when the Court of Appeals confirmed the
criminality of similar currency transaction activities. Follow-
ing a non-jury trial, Perlmutter was found guilty of felony and
misdemeanor currency transaction violations. The proof showed
that during 1981 and 1982, Perlmutter laundered cash totalling
over $200,000 for three clients whom she represented in
connection with the purchase of real estate. In each case,
Perlmutter took the purchase price in cash from her clients and
obtained negotiable instruments for payment in such a manner as
to cause the banks in which she deposited the cash either to fail
to prepare a Currency Transaction Report or to prepare a report
that did not disclose her client's interest in the funds.
PART IV:
THE IMPACT OF NARCOTICS USE AND
TRAFFICKING IN NEW YORK CITY
1. HEROIN
The heroin problem in New York State appears to have
stabilized over the past few years. Estimates of the
narcotic-abusing population -- mainly heroin abusers -- have
remained at 260,000, with 200,000 narcotic abusers estimated in
New York City and 60,000 estimated in the rest of the State. The
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No. of cocaine dependants
there were 97,000 heavy drug abusers in the state age 16 or under
with most in New York City. This number has certainly increased.
New York City officials currently estimate there are 600,000
regular cocaine users (addicts), with the vast majority being
crack users. According to DSAS figures, in 1985 primary cocaine
abuse accounted for 15.1% of all admissions to state-funded
treatment programs in New York City. This rose to 33.6% for 1986
and 37% of all admissions for 1987. Sixty-five percent of the
cocaine abusers admitted for treatment during 1987 indicated that
smoking was the primary method of ingestion. Crack abuse affects
males and females and all ethnic groups and geographic lines
within and around New York City.
Crack abuse, because of the high proportion of women
involved, is already eroding the structure of the inner city
family, and if not checked, will destroy the last vestiges of
family structure in the inner city. The long term consequences
of this destruction will no doubt be far more severe than the
drug problem which caused it. Some evidence of the erosion is
already becoming available. Reports to New York City of child
abuse where parents were involved with drugs more than tripled,
from 2,627 to 8,251, over the past two years. William Grinker,
New York City Commissioner of the Human Resources Adminstration
blames crack for driving up the total number of abuse and neglect
cases from 41,464 in 1986 to 52,568 in 1988. A review by the
City of cases of children who were killed by abuse and neglect in
1987, showed that 73% of the deaths resulted from parental drug
abuse, sharply up from 11% in 1985. From 1986 to 1988, the
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number or babies born in New York City with drugs in their urine
more than tripled -- from 1,325 to 5,088. Most of these babies
tested positive for cocaine.
Crack has also led to a marked increase in venereal
disease because of the extensive sexual activity in crack houses,
usually by women who exchange sex for crack. The addiction for
crack is so strong that many female addicts will become involved
in multiple sexual liaisons either for money to buy crack or in
direct exchange for crack. In New York City where the number of
syphilis cases had remained relatively stable since 1959, the
cases of early stages of the disease jumped 115%, from
2,111 to 4,548 between 1988 and 1987. While there is no
conclusive data yet to draw a link between crack use and AIDS,
many health professionals believe crack may become a major cause
of AIDS transmissins because of the rampant sexual activity at
crack houses.
3. VIOLENCE
Crack has also fueled dramatic increases in violence.
Homicides increased overall from 1,588 in 1986, 1,691 in 1987,,
and 1,867 in 1988
--
the highest total ever recorded in the
City. A substantial proportion of these homicides have been
shown to be narcotics-related. Other violent crimes, such as
robbery and aggravated assault, were up 8.47% and 13.1%
respectively for the first nine months of 1988 as compared to the
same period for 1987. Again, these are crimes typically
associated with narcotics trafficking and abuse. Automatic and
semi-automatic weapons have become easily obtainable in narcotics
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March 6, 1989
Draft One
REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
MARCH 9, 1989
staff
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher -- to all the Assistant and
Associate SAC's ( ("SACKS") Group Supervisors, Special Agents,
Task Force officers and prosecutors gathered here today -- thank
you for honoring me with your presence. You have important work
to do, and I will not stay you- long.
Daily
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
News
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
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fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
NYPP
NYT
Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York City, the war on drugs is no metaphor.
NYP
3/5/89
Before we could bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer
Newsalay
was gunned down,
felled by a single shot fired point blank
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beneath his bullet-proof vest. As we speak, those accused of
Pescription of
Byrne case:
ambushing Eddie Byrne are standing trial in this city. And this
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week the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's
Ontrial now
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Supervise
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Ken Feldma
funeral is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about
from 3/2/89 El McNally,
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the attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
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(Brise Travello
You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
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AG Ed MCNully
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I
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telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital, and share your
relief that he's recovering so well. Last wéek, Matthew Byrne
schedule
joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And earlier
paper
Scheduling
last
today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher, a woman
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of considerable dignity and strength.
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It has been quite an education. I understand the unique and
dangerous challenges that DEA faces in New York. This area leads
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the nation in overall consumption, distribution and importation
DoAa
of narcotics, run by a well-armed cross-section of ethnic groups
as diverse as the city itself. Your role in this battle is very
special. If the legions of state and local police officers
represent the infantrymen in this effort, then the DEA is
something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of narcotics
enforcement.
Newsday, 3/2/89 Breslin column, P.4
Like Everett Hatcher, most of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs.
Let's talk about the terror
you
It used to be unthinkable to shoot a federal agent.
3/2/89 Newsday
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
P.4-5
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too, and the
NYP, 3/5/89 killers of Everett Hatcher may well become the first New York
criminals to face execution in over 25 years It's about time.
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The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
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years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
"In Albay,ther 3/5/89 the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
Stheis,
legislation has been vetoed.
Agaust
the live DP Falls Bach"
That's not right. New York policemen deserve all the
protection that tough laws can offer.
They and you -- also deserve to be better armed and
better armored than the bad guys you must face, As one DEA agent
summarized his simple rule of street survival: "Walk softly, and
carry a big, mean SMG." ( (DEA jargon for new "Sub-Machine
Guns") )
In a moment I want to tell you something about Bill
Bennett's drug education program. But first, I'd like to ask
your help in a little remedial education program of our own. Its
need to understand s simple fact :
target is drug dealers The message is simple:
You shoot a cop, and you will be severely punished, fast,
and quite possibly with your life.
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Druggies used to know that. But it's with 25 years since Narco traticantes) ?
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has
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anyone faced the death penalty in this state, they may have
gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately we all must choose between evil and good. Our
Ommilus Drug Act, 1988(
new weapons and our new laws mean that any druggies holding guns
Dick
better choose fast. And they damned well better choose right.
The killing must stop.
Of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
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of all those in the United States.
In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependant on crack or cocaine.
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Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
corréspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
SDNY
(each
year).
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide Last year, you
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seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
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New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total.
In
cartel
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store EDNY
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
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These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
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dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged Road
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with your federal, state and local counterparts.
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Still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
mind-numbing, at times meaningless, like the body counts in
Vietnam. And as we learned in Southeast Asia wars aren't won by
We know
statistics or body counts. Wars are won by winning battles, and
in this war, battles are won by putting particular drug
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organizations our of business. It's done the old-fashioned way,
one group at a time.
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You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
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my generation. United States versus Torres Monsanto.
LIDO.
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Based Balls.
The Flying Dragons
Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
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Each of these cases
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conference with powder on the table.
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represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
Most importantly, each of these cases involved the kind of
mistype
sophisticated, long-term investigation several were among the
first cases in the country to make use of the new drug kingpin
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statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and the
pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to spectacular
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total $30 - 50 million.
Just as the death penalty for cop killers helps make the
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odds more even, stripping our enemies of their ill-gotten gains
turns the tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps
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you've heard Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in
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America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends
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industry
Sometime during the years following our withdrawal from
now
Southeast Asia, the American people made a solemn, unspoken
exceed
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pledge to the troops like you who defend our freedom on the front
lines: We will never again ask you to fight in an action we do
not intend to win.
Ladies and gentlemen: We do intend to win. This scourge
will end.
And although we meet on a crucial battlefield of this war,
Building
it is a war that is being waged on many fronts. Last month, I
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spoke to Congress about four areas: Treatment, education,
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interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of cutbacks and
biset construints
BABA, PIGE
freezes, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays
to fund these new efforts.
By
1995
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intend to double the funding for federal prisons by 1995.) Simply by 50%
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put prison overcrowding and weak judges have caused too many
criminals to go free after little or no punishment
Indeed,
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being out on the street in the first place (one was a paroled
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killer and the other had twice been arrested for assaulting ?
policemen. It's outrageous And it must stop.
Beyond enforcement, other moneys will go to expanded
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over 5,000
babies born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative
NYT
oral methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital
3/5/89
designed to get the addicts off needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about the
responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
users must bear for her husband's death. Well, $1.1 billion of
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my request will go for education, in an initiative led by Bill
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and Delaware. At the Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last
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crowd.
Things like this don't happen because of government
programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
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control them -- all are important to the fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. We must
repeat it until we are hoarse, repeat it until we are heard.
From the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to the
weak-kneed judges who don't seem to understand what it is you are
up against out there on the street: The killing must stop.
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them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
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MARCH 9, 1989
MR. STUTMAN, COMMISSIONER WARD -- TO ALL THE
PROSECUTORS AND EACH OF YOU ON THE FRONTLINE WITH US TODAY
-- THANK YOU FOR HONORING ME WITH YOUR PRESENCE. You HAVE
IMPORTANT WORK TO DO, AND I WILL NOT KEEP YOU LONG.
IN THE EMPTY STREETS OF AN ISLAND BOROUGH, THE LIFE
OF EVERETT HATCHER WAS ENDED BY FOUR COWARDLY SHOTS.
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THE ECHOES OF THOSE FOUR SHOTS WERE HEARD IN WASHINGTON
AND ACROSS AN AMERICA WHERE DECENT MEN AND WOMEN SHARE
YOUR SENSE OF LOSS, AND OF OUTRAGE.
HERE IN NEW YORK CITY, AS IN OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY, THE WAR ON DRUGS IS NO METAPHOR. BEFORE WE COULD
BURY EVERETT HATCHER LAST WEEK ANOTHER OFFICER WAS GUNNED
DOWN, FELLED BY A SINGLE SHOT FIRED POINT BLANK BENEATH
HIS BULLET-PROOF VEST. As WE SPEAK, THOSE ACCUSED OF
AMBUSHING EDDIE BYRNE, ONE OF NEW YORK'S FINEST, ARE
STANDING TRIAL IN THIS CITY.
3
AND THIS WEEK THE DEA GROUP THAT HELPED HANDLE SECURITY
FOR EVERETT'S FUNERAL IS IN YET ANOTHER NEW YORK
COURTROOM, TESTIFYING ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF
SPECIAL AGENT BRUCE TRAVERS.
You KNOW THAT MY PERSONAL INTEREST, AND THE INTEREST
OF THE NATION, GOES BEYOND TODAY'S VISIT. As VICE
PRESIDENT, I WROTE TO BRUCE WHILE HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL.
BRUCE, ALL OF US HERE ARE GLAD THAT YOU'RE RECOVERING so
WELL. LAST WEEK, MATTHEW BYRNE JOINED US FOR A PRIVATE
DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
4
AND EARLIER TODAY, I WAS PRIVILEGED TO VISIT WITH MARY
JANE HATCHER, A WOMAN OF ENORMOUS DIGNITY AND STRENGTH.
IT HAS BEEN QUITE AN EDUCATION. I UNDERSTAND THE
SPECIAL AND DANGEROUS CHALLENGES THAT ALL NEW YORK DRUG
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FACE. THIS AREA LEADS THE NATION IN
[
OVERALL CONSUMPTION, DISTRIBUTION AND IMPORTATION OF
NARCOTICS, RUN BY A WELL-ARMED CROSS-SECTION OF DRUG
TRAFFICKERS AS DIVERSE AS THE CITY ITSELF. YOUR ROLE IN
THIS BATTLE IS VERY SPECIAL. You PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE
LINE EVERY DAY.
5
IF THE LEGIONS OF STATE AND LOCAL PATROLMEN REPRESENT THE
INFANTRYMEN IN THIS EFFORT, THEN YOU ARE SOMETHING LIKE
OUR SPECIAL FORCES, THE GREEN BERETS OF NARCOTICS
ENFORCEMENT.
LIKE EVERETT HATCHER, MANY OF YOU HAVE WORKED
UNDERCOVER, IN EFFECT OPERATING BEHIND ENEMY LINES. I
ADMIRE YOUR COURAGE. IN MY OWN WAR, I WAS BEHIND ENEMY
LINES ONLY BRIEFLY, SICK AND PADDLING WITH MY HANDS IN
JAPANESE WATERS AND AS SCARED AS I EVER EXPECT TO BE.
6
EACH OF YOU HAS BEEN THERE, AND KNOW THE DRY MOUTH, THE
MOIST PALMS, THE BALL OF ICE THAT GRIPS YOUR STOMACH HIGH
UP UNDER THE RIBS.
You KNOW, IT USED TO BE UNTHINKABLE TO SHOOT A COP.
No LONGER. TODAY NARCOTICS AGENTS ARE SOMETIMES THE
FIRST ONES SHOT, TARGETED BY CRIMINALS ARMED WITH A
STAGGERING ARRAY OF BATTLEFIELD WEAPONRY. THE EXPLOSIVE,
EXPENSIVE LESSON OF THE PAST YEAR IN NEW YORK IS THAT THE
RULES OF THE GAME HAVE DRAMATICALLY CHANGED.
7
WELL, I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS FOR THE BAD GUYS: HUNTING
SEASON IS OVER. THE RULES ON OUR SIDE HAVE CHANGED, TOO.
IT'S ABOUT TIME.
THE SCALES OF JUSTICE ARE BECOMING MORE BALANCED
BECAUSE OF THE NEWLY ENACTED FEDERAL DRUG LAWS.
NEW YORK POLICEMEN -- ALL OF YOU -- DESERVE ALL THE
PROTECTION THAT TOUGH LAWS CAN OFFER. I'VE ASKED BILL
BENNETT TO LOOK INTO WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT FULLY
AUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS FROM FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF
THE CRIMINALS YOU FACE.
8
DRUG DEALERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND A SIMPLE FACT: You
SHOOT A COP, AND YOU WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED, FAST, AND
QUITE POSSIBLY WITH YOUR LIFE.
DRUG TRAFFICKERS USED TO KNOW THAT. BUT IT'S BEEN
OVER 25 YEARS SINCE ANYONE HAS FACED THE DEATH PENALTY IN
THIS STATE, AND THEY MAY HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE FORGETFUL.
LET'S REMIND THEM.
ULTIMATELY, WE ALL MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN EVIL AND GOOD.
OUR NEW WEAPONS AND OUR NEW LAWS MEAN THAT ANY DRUG
TRAFFICKERS HOLDING GUNS BETTER CHOOSE FAST.
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AND THEY DAMNED WELL BETTER CHOOSE RIGHT. THE KILLING
MUST STOP.
OF COURSE, GUNS AREN'T THE ONLY WAY DRUG DEALERS TAKE
LIVES. THIS STATE IS HOME TO AN ESTIMATED 260,000 HEROIN
ADDICTS, HALF OF ALL THOSE IN THE UNITED STATES. IN THE
CITY ALONE ANOTHER 600,000 PEOPLE ARE BELIEVED DEPENDENT
ON CRACK OR COCAINE.
NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE SEIZURES YOU HAVE MADE ARE
CORRESPONDINGLY HUGE.
10
DEA NEW YORK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 30 TO 50 PERCENT OF ALL
HEROIN SEIZED BY DEA NATIONWIDE EACH YEAR. LAST YEAR, YOU
SEIZED MORE THAN 10,000 KILOGRAMS OF COCAINE IN OR
DESTINED FOR NEW YORK, ALMOST 20 PERCENT OF THE NATIONWIDE
DEA TOTAL. IN JANUARY YOU RECOVERED NEARLY $20 MILLION
FROM A FURNITURE STORE DELIVERY VAN, SAID TO BE THE
LARGEST CASH SEIZURE IN THE WORLD.
11
THESE IMPRESSIVE FIGURES ARE A CREDIT TO YOUR TALENT
AND DEDICATION AND TO THE EFFECTIVE WORKING RELATIONS YOU
HAVE FORGED WITH YOUR FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL
COUNTERPARTS.
STILL, WE IN WASHINGTON UNDERSTAND THAT THE
IMPORTANCE OF A CASE CANNOT BE MEASURED MERELY BY THE SIZE
OF THE SEIZURES OR THE NUMBERS OF ARRESTS. STATISTICS IN
THE DRUG WAR HAVE BECOME MIND-NUMBING; AS WELL AS
MIND-BOGGLING.
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WARS AREN'T WON BY STATISTICS. WE KNOW WARS ARE WON BY
WINNING BATTLES, AND IN THIS WAR, BATTLES ARE WON BY
PUTTING PARTICULAR DRUG ORGANIZATIONS OUT OF BUSINESS.
It's DONE THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, ONE GROUP AT A TIME.
You IN NEW YORK HAVE DONE JUST THAT. AND THE NAMES
ARE AS FAMILIAR TO YOU HERE AS THE BATTLEFIELDS OF WORLD
WAR II ARE TO MY GENERATION. UNITED STATES VERSUS TORRES.
MONSANTO. LIDO [LEE-DOE]. BASED BALLS. THE FLYING
DRAGONS. LAI KING MAN. REITER/JACKSON.
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THESE ARE MORE THAN BUY/BUSTS, MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER
NEWS CONFERENCE WITH POWDER ON THE TABLE. EACH OF THESE
CASES REPRESENTS AN ENTIRE ORGANIZATION PUT BEHIND BARS
AND OUT OF BUSINESS.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, EACH OF THESE CASES INVOLVED
SOPHISTICATED, LONG-TERM INVESTIGATIONS AND SEVERAL WERE
AMONG THE FIRST CASES IN THE COUNTRY TO MAKE USE OF THE
NEW DRUG KINGPIN STATUTES.
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NEARLY ALL INVOLVED TASK FORCE COOPERATION AND THE
PIONEERING USE OF FORFEITURE LAWS, IN SOME CASES TO
SPECTACULAR EFFECT: THE FORFEITURES FROM THE TORRES
BROTHERS MAY ULTIMATELY TOTAL $30 - 50 MILLION.
JUST AS THE DEATH PENALTY FOR COP KILLERS HELPS EVEN
THE ODDS, STRIPPING OUR ENEMIES OF THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS
TURNS THE TABLES IN A DRAMATIC AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WAY.
PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD WOODY ALLEN'S WRY OBSERVATION:
"ORGANIZED CRIME IN AMERICA TAKES IN OVER FORTY BILLION
DOLLARS A YEAR AND SPENDS VERY LITTLE ON OFFICE SUPPLIES."
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EXPERTS HAVE ESTIMATED THAT TODAY DRUGS ALONE ACCOUNT
FOR A $110 BILLION INDUSTRY IN OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE
HURTING THE DRUG KINGPINS WHERE THEY LIVE WHEN WE TAKE
THEIR MONEY, AND WE ARE GOING TO GET EVEN BETTER AT IT.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: WE DO INTEND TO PREVAIL. THIS
SCOURGE WILL END. I MEAN TO LEAD THE FIGHT, WITH BILL
BENNETT, OUR NATION'S FIRST DRUG CZAR, AT MY SIDE.
AND ALTHOUGH WE "MEET ON A CRUCIAL BATTLEFIELD OF
THIS WAR," IT IS A WAR THAT IS BEING WAGED ON MANY FRONTS.
16
LAST MONTH, I SPOKE TO CONGRESS ABOUT FOUR AREAS:
REHABILITATION, EDUCATION, INTERDICTION, AND ENFORCEMENT.
AND, IN A TIME OF BUDGET CONSTRAINTS, I ASKED FOR AN
INCREASE OF $1 BILLION IN BUDGET OUTLAYS TO FUND THESE NEW
EFFORTS.
FOR YOU IN FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, OUR PROPOSAL
BUDGETS A RECORD $4.1 BILLION, FULLY 70 PERCENT OF THE
TOTAL. BY 1995, WE ALSO INTEND TO REDUCE PRISON
OVERCROWDING BY 50%.
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BEYOND ENFORCEMENT, OTHER MONIES WILL GO TO EXPANDED
TREATMENT FOR THE INNOCENT AND THE POOR, LIKE THE OVER
5,000 BABIES BORN IN NEW YORK LAST YEAR ALREADY ADDICTED
TO DRUGS.
OTHER NEW FUNDS WILL GO TO CUT THE WAITING TIME FOR
TREATMENT PROGRAMS, PERHAPS ALONG THE LINES OF THE
INNOVATIVE ORAL METHADONE PROGRAM AT NEW YORK'S BETH
ISRAEL HOSPITAL, DESIGNED TO GET THE ADDICTS OFF NEEDLES
AS WELL AS HEROIN.
18
MARY JANE HATCHER SPOKE WITH ELOQUENCE LAST WEEK
ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITY MAINSTREAM AMERICA AND SO-CALLED
"CASUAL" COCAINE USERS MUST BEAR FOR HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.
WELL, $1.1 BILLION OF MY REQUEST WILL GO FOR PREVENTION
AND EDUCATION, TO LET THE CASUAL USERS KNOW THE RISKS THEY
TAKE AND THE PRICE THEY MAY HAVE TO PAY. AND TO TELL OUR
CHILDREN THAT DRUGS ARE WRONG.
WHILE THERE MAY NOT BE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE
TUNNEL, THERE DOES SEEM TO BE SOME LIGHT COMING IN UNDER
THE DOOR.
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AT THE APOLLO THEATRE IN HARLEM ONE WEDNESDAY LAST MONTH,
THE AMATEUR NIGHT PERFORMANCES WERE INTERRUPTED BY
SPONTANEOUS ANTI-DRUG MESSAGES FROM THE STAGE AND CHANTS
FROM THE CROWD.
THINGS LIKE THIS DON'T HAPPEN BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT
PROGRAMS. THEY HAPPEN BECAUSE ATTITUDES ARE BEGINNING TO
CHANGE, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEHIND YOUR
EFFORTS ALL THE WAY.
ATTITUDES ARE BEGINNING TO CHANGE OVERSEAS AS WELL.
20
YOUR BOSS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RETURNS TODAY FROM MEETINGS
WITH OFFICIALS IN COLOMBIA, BOLIVIA AND PERU, AND BILL
BENNETT AND I WILL BE BRIEFED BY HIM TOMORROW. I KNOW
THAT SOME OF YOU HAVE ALSO SERVED OR WILL SERVE YOUR OWN
TOURS IN SOUTH AMERICA, A TRIBUTE TO OUR INCREASED
COOPERATION.
OBVIOUSLY, THE RACE IS FAR FROM WON. BUT THERE IS
POWER IN US YET. WE IN WASHINGTON WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH
AND SUPPORT YOUR WORK HERE.
21
THE ADAMITA TRIAL, THE JOHNNY KON [KAHN] AND BROOKS DAVIS
CASES, THE NEW SEIZURE PROGRAM IN WHICH WHOLE APARTMENT
BUILDINGS ARE WRESTED BACK FROM THE CRACK LORDS WHO
CONTROL THEM -- ALL ARE IMPORTANT TO THE FIGHT.
BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE KILLING MUST STOP. WE
MUST REPEAT IT UNTIL WE ARE HOARSE, REPEAT IT UNTIL WE ARE
HEARD. FROM THE APOLLO THEATRE TO THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
TO ANYONE WHO DOESN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS YOU
ARE UP AGAINST OUT THERE ON THE STREET: THE KILLING MUST
STOP.
22
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE STREETS OF STATEN ISLAND LAST
WEEK WAS A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE AN
IMPORTANT TASK AHEAD.
THE COWARDS WHO MURDERED EVERETT HATCHER SHOULD BE
GIVEN NO REST. BUT BE CAREFUL OUT THERE. REMEMBER THE
TEARFUL SALUTE OF BRAVE NINE-YEAR-OLD ZACHARY. AND FIND
THESE CRIMINALS. BRING THEM TO JUSTICE. NOBODY, BUT
NOBODY, IS GOING TO BEAT THE DEA.
MAY GOD LOOK AFTER YOU, AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED
STATES.
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REMARKS: DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
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9, Commissioner 1989 Word (N.4)
Mr. Stutman, Mr. Gallagher to all the prosecutors and
each of you on the frontline with us today -- thank you for
honoring me with your presence. You have important work to do,
and I will not keep you long.
In the empty streets of an island borough, the shots that
ended Everett Hatcher's life were heard only by the cowards who
fired them. But the echoes of those four shots were heard in
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Washington and across an America where decent men and women share
your sense of loss, and of outrage.
Here in New York city, as in other cities across the
country, the war on drugs is no metaphor. Before we could bury
Everett Hatcher last week another officer was gunned down, felled
by a single shot fired point blank beneath his bullet-proof vest.
As we speak, those accused of ambushing Eddie Byrne, one of New
York's finest, are standing trial in this city. And this week
the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's funeral
is in yet another New York courtroom, testifying about the
R.R. called
attempted murder of Special Agent Bruce Travers.
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You know that my personal interest, and the interest of the
nation, goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President,
I
telephoned Bruce while he was in the hospital. Bruce, all of us
here are glad that you're recovering so well. Last week, Matthew
Byrne joined us for a private dinner at the White House. And
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earlier today, I was privileged to visit with Mary Jane Hatcher,
a woman of enormous dignity and strength
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It has been quite an education. I understand the special
and dangerous challenges that all New York drug enforcement
officers face. This area leads the nation in overall
consumption, distribution and importation of narcotics, run by a
well-armed cross-section of drug traffickers as diverse as the
city itself. Your role in this battle is very special. You put
your life on the line every day. If the legions of state and
local patrolmen represent the infantrymen in this effort, then
you are something like our Special Forces, the Green Berets of
narcotics enforcement.
Like Everett Hatcher, many of you have worked undercover, in
effect operating behind enemy lines. I admire your courage. In
my own war, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick and
paddling with my hands in Japanese waters and as scared as I ever
expect to be. Each of you has been there, and know the dry
mouth, the moist palms, the ball of ice that grips your stomach
high up under the ribs.
You know, it used to be unthinkable to shoot a cop.
No longer. Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first
ones shot, targeted by criminals armed with a staggering array of
battlefield weaponry. The explosive, expensive lesson of the
past year in New York is that the rules of the game have
dramatically changed.
Well, I have some bad news for the bad guys: Hunting season
is over. The rules on our side have changed, too. It's about
time.
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The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because of
the newly enacted federal drug laws. Twelve times in twelve
years the New York State Legislature has voted to restore the
death penalty for cop killers. Twelve times in twelve years that
legislation has been vetoed.
That's not right. New York policemen -- all of you --
deserve all the protection that tough laws can offer. I've asked
Bill Bennett to look into what can be done to prevent fully
automatic assault weapons from falling into the hands of the
criminals you face.
Drug dealers need to understand a simple fact: You shoot a
cop, and you will be severely punished, fast, and quite possibly
with your life.
Drug traffickers used to know that. But it's been 25 years
since anyone has faced the death penalty in this state, and they
may have gotten a little forgetful. Let's remind them.
Ultimately, we all must choose between evil and good. Our
new weapons and our new laws mean that any drug traffickers
holding guns better choose fast. And they damned well better
choose right. The killing must stop.
of course, guns aren't the only way drug dealers take lives.
This state is home to an estimated 250,000 heroin addicts, half
of all those in the United States. In the city alone another
600,000 people are believed dependent on crack or cocaine.
Not surprisingly, the seizures you have made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
percent of all heroin seized by DEA nationwide. Last year, you
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seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or destined for
New York, almost 20 percent of the nationwide DEA total. In
January you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture store
delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
These impressive figures are a credit to your talent and
dedication and to the effective working relations you have forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
Still, we in Washington understand that the importance of a
case cannot be measured merely by the size of the seizures or the
numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war have become
mind-numbing; as well as mind-boggling. Wars aren't won by
statistics. We know wars are won by winning battles, and in this
war, battles are won by putting particular drug organizations out
of business. It's done the old-fashioned way, one group at a
time.
You in New York have done just that. And the names are as
familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are to
my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. The Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter/Jackson.
These are more than buy/busts, more than just another news
conference with powder on the table. Each of these cases
represents an entire organization put behind bars and out of
business.
Most importantly, each of these cases involved
sophisticated, long-term investigations and several were among
the first cases in the country to make use of the new drug
kingpin statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and
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the pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to
spectacular effect: The forfeitures from the Torres brothers may
ultimately total $30 - 50 million.
Just as the death penalty for cop killers helps even the
odds, stripping our enemies of their ill-gotten gains turns the
tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps you've
heard Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in America
takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little
on office supplies."
Experts have estimated that today drugs alone account for a
$110 billion industry in our country. We are hurting the drug
kingpins where they live when we take their money, and we are
going to get even better at it.
Ladies and gentlemen: We do intend to win this war on
drugs. This scourge will end. I mean to lead the fight, with
Bill Bennett, our nation's first Drug Czar, at my side.
And although we "meet on a crucial battlefield of this war,"
it is a war that is being waged on many fronts. Last month, I
spoke to Congress about four areas: rehabilitation, education,
interdiction, and enforcement. And, in a time of budget
constraints, I asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget
outlays to fund these new efforts.
For you in federal law enforcement, our proposal budgets a
record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total
By 1995, we
also intend to reduce prison overcrowding by 50%.
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Beyond enforcement, other monies will go to expanded
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over 5,000
babies born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative
oral methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital,
designed to get the addicts off needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about the
responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
users must bear for her husband's death. Well, $1.1 billion of
my request will go for prevention and education, to let that
casual user know the risks they take and the price they may have
to pay. And to tell our children that drugs are wrong.
While there may not be light at the end of the tunnel, there
does seem to be some light coming in under the door. At the
Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last month, the amateur
night performances were interrupted by spontaneous anti-drug
messages from the stage and chants from the crowd.
Things like this don't happen because of government
programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change,
because the American people are behind your efforts all the way.
Attitudes are beginning to change overseas as well. Your
boss the Attorney General returns today from meetings with
officials in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, and Bill Bennett and I
will be briefed by him tomorrow. I know that many of you have
also served or will serve your own tours in South America, a
tribute to our increased cooperation.
7
Obviously, the race is far from won. But there is power in
us yet. We in Washington will continue to watch and support your
work here. The Pizza Connection II trial, the Johnny Kahn and
Brooks Davis cases, the new seizure program in which whole
apartment buildings are wrested back from the crack lords who
control them -- all are important to the fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. We must
repeat it until we are hoarse, repeat it until we are heard.
From the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to anyone who
doesn't seem to understand what it is you are up against out
there on the street: The killing must stop.
What happened on the streets of Staten Island last week was
a horrible tragedy. Which means you have an important task
ahead.
The cowards who murdered Everett Hatcher should be given no
rest. But be careful out there. Remember the tearful salute of
N
brave nine-year-old Zachery. And find these criminals. Bring
them to justice. Nobody, but nobody, is going to beat the DEA.
May God look after you, and God bless the United States.
NY. St. Legislature -Albory
Bob Stubman
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Stripg spokesmar (212) 399-5001