Florin Krasniqi (born June 26, 1964)[1] is a Kosovar-Albanian-American businessman, political activist and former arms smuggler.
He was a mathematics high-school teacher in the town of Vranovc, Peja when he fled to the United States, sneaking across the border from Mexico in the trunk of a white Cadillac on Christmas Eve, 1988, aged 24.
He began as a roofer and later founded Triangle General Contractors, a roofing company in Brooklyn, New York.
A cousin, Xhevdet, and a nephew, Adrian, were among the founding members of the KLA and helped smuggle weapons into the region.
An engineering student in Pristina in 1996, Adrian purportedly lost faith in Kosovo's government and joined a cell of the KLA, heading up the rebels' weapons-smuggling operation.