How should we recognize Oscar Lopez Rivera, formerly one of the leaders of the FALN a seditious marxist paramilitary group responsible for over 130 bomb attacks on the United States in the name of Puerto Rican independence? Have a parade for him of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUJs2MFlnZs

The New York Times has been examining problems at Rikers Island, as well as the New York City Correction Department, which oversees it. Here’s what you need to know.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that within the next decade, the jail complex at Rikers Island would be shut down. The mayor’s announcement was an acknowledgment that despite the hundreds of millions of dollars devoted to fixing the problems in recent years, the jail cannot be saved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/nyregion/rikers-island-prison-new-york.html

Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the remaining 46 U.S. Attorneys who were appointed during Obama’s tenure to tender their resignations. This is a pretty standard practice — new presidents usually purge their predecessors’ appointees upon taking office, though this wave came somewhat unexpectedly. But now everyone, especially City Hall, Albany, and Wall Street, wants to know: What the heck is going to happen to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara?

There’s always the chance that the White House and Sessions refuse Bharara’s resignation. The top prosecutor in the Southern District of New York made his reputation going after white-collar crime on Wall Street, and public corruption in Albany. His office is currently investigating Mayor de Blasio’s campaign for possible campaign-finance-related corruption, so that sound you hear might be a sigh coming from City Hall.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/doj-just-fired-of-46-obama-appointed-u-s-states-attorneys.html