12 MARCH 16, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM EDITORIAL Requiem for a champion of the law The most fi erce federal prosecutor THE HOT TOPIC 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, 2017) COMMENTS: ESTABLISHED 1908 Co-Publishers VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA SCHNEPS Editor-in-Chief ROBERT POZARYCKI Classifi ed Manager DEBORAH CUSICK Assistant Classifi ed Manager MARLENE RUIZ Reporter ANTHONY GIUDICE © 2017 SCHNEPS NY MEDIA, LLC. General Publication Offi ce: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 TELEPHONE: 1-718-821-7500/7501/7502/7503 FAX: 1-718-224-5441 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB SITE: www.qns.com ON TWITTER @ridgewoodtimes PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FOR 108 YEARS COMPOSITION RESPONSIBILITY: Accuracy in receiving ads over the telephone cannot be guaranteed. This newspaper is responsible for only one incorrect insertion and only for that portion of the ad in which the error appears. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to make sure copy does not contravene the Consumer Protection Law or any other requirement.TIMES NEWSWEEKLY Is Listed With The Standard Rate & Data And Is A Member Of The New York Press Association SNAPS SNOWY CHURCH IN BAYSIDE PHOTO BY ROBERT POZARYCKI Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, Facebook page, tweeting @QNS or by emailing [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). 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. Their departures were immediate; there will be no transition from one prosecutor to the next. Beyond that, it broke a promise that this president gave Bharara early on that he would remain as federal prosecutor — yet another broken promise on an ever-growing pile of them accumulating on the White House front lawn. 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. This 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-to-play 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. His dismissal from the post sends a terrible message of its own: that such good work won’t be allowed to proceed if you belong to a party diff erent than the president’s. 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.
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