22 THE QUEENS COURIER • MARCH 16, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM THE QUEENS editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ARTIST SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH RON TORINA EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: [email protected] for advertising e-mail: [email protected] Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. SNOWY CHURCH IN BAYSIDE// PHOTO BY ROBERT POZARYCKI Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). Requiem for a champion of the law Th e most fi erce federal prosecutor in New York State history was fi red last weekend, and it should give pause to everyone who wants the law upheld and the government free of corrupt hacks. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought down some of the worst crooks in Albany; party allegiance didn’t matter to him. Democrat or Republican, if he found out that you broke the law, off to the slammer you went. On March 10, the Trump administration told Bharara and 45 other U.S. attorneys to resign. Bharara publicly refused that order, and was fi red the next day. Presidents make changes to federal prosecutors’ offi ces all the time, but the way in which Bharara and the other U.S. attorneys were let go this past weekend stinks. Th eir departures were immediate; there will be no transition from one prosecutor to the next. It is a fact that President Obama was the one who appointed Bharara as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. It is also a fact, however, that Bharara executed the duties of that offi ce in a truly fair and outstanding manner. Th is is the man who sent two of the state’s biggest power brokers — Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — to jail aft er busting their respective pay-toplay scams. Locally, Bharara also sent to jail former Queens state Senator Malcolm Smith for trying to buy his way onto the Republican Party’s mayoral ticket, and former Councilman Dan Halloran for conspiring with that eff ort and for accepting kickbacks from individuals involved with city government. He locked up former state Senator Hiram Monserrate for embezzling City Council funds for his own political campaign and former Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio for accepting bribes. Bharara made a profound impact in cleaning up state and city government, while also sending the message that public corruption won’t be tolerated at any level. We wish Bharara well, and we wish that his replacement is as steadfast and as independent in carrying out the duties of the offi ce; in fi ghting corruption at every level; and in protecting the people of New York from charlatans and crooks. STORY: ‘I cannot believe I did this’: Mom sends son to school in Whitestone with her box of heroin SUMMARY: In a massive mix-up, a mom in Broad Channel sent her 6-year-old son to his Whitestone school with her stash of heroin in his backpack. REACH: 27,223 people (as of March 13, 20 17)
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