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Its funny how the scandal-free administration of Obama suddenly finds itself embroiled in scandals.

Obama kept a tight lid on scandals, threatening most of the press corps, and of course all the scurrilous politicians in DC. Honestly, if it wasnt for his black book, Obama might be rotting in a federal prison.

And what of Eric Holder? Certainly, Americans would feel that justice was servedif he received some prison time.

Aside from the scandal of the Lefts creation that backfired, aka Russia-Gate, others have begun to resurface.

As FOX Newsreported,

The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement, Border Patrol, and congressional sources told Fox News.

The suspect,Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force that included the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC).

A $250,000 reward had been sought for information leading to the arrest of Osorio-Arellanes, who was captured at a ranch on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. U.S. authorities have said they will seek his extradition.

Who knows what this Mexican bandito might say.

He could talk to avoid the U.S. justice system, or he could talk to get the heck out of Mexico.

Recall the incident that took the border patrol agents life.

Terry was killed on Dec. 14, 2010 in a gunfight between Border Patrol agents and members of a five-man cartel rip crew, which regularly patrolled the desert along the U.S.-Mexico border looking for drug dealers to rob.

The agents death exposed Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) operation in which the federal government allowed criminals to buy guns in Phoenix-area shops with the intention of tracking them once they made their way into Mexico. But the agency lost track of more than 1,400 of the 2,000 guns they allowed smugglers to buy. Two of those guns were found at the scene of Terrys killing.

The operation set off a political firestorm, and then-Attorney General Eric Holderwas held in contempt of Congress after he refused to divulge documents for a congressional investigation.

Lets hope that President Trump revisits some of these scandals.

Then, when the truth comes out hold the Obama administration accountable.

Americans need to feel that no person is above the law. Restoring that faith to the public would be priceless.

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Fast and Furious Returns: 'Scandal-free' Obama and his Henchman Holder on the Firing Line Again - TexasGOPVote

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Power and Punishment: Two New Books About Race and Crime New York Times In 1995, one year after Bill Clinton signed the biggest crime bill in American history, the nation's first black United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Eric Holder, announced a major anti-crime initiative called Operation Ceasefire at a ...

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - It's good to be Lyft right now.

The company announced on Tuesday that it has raised a fresh $600 million from investors. The new funding bumps up Lyft's valuation to $7.5 billion -- still far short of Uber's estimated $68 billion worth.

The news comes at an interesting time, as Uber's ethics and company culture are being sharply criticized.

A former female engineer alleged sexism and harassment at Uber in February. The company hired Eric Holder to conduct an investigation, which is supposed to close at the end of the month. Uber is also fighting a lawsuit against Alphabet's self driving car unit, Waymo, which is accusing Uber of stealing trade secrets.

And in January, a boycott of Uber went viral. Social media users urged customers to #DeleteUber after the company was perceived as breaking up a taxi strike of drivers protesting President Trump's travel ban.

Lyft said it has seen a 60-percent increase in week-over-week new passenger signups since the #DeleteUber debacle.

According to a source, Lyft has been fundraising since late last year, just before Uber's troubles began.

But Lyft has used Uber's situation as a chance to position itself as the ethical alternative to Uber.

And apparently, Lyft's new investors agree.

"Every ride we requested began with our asking the driver which service they most preferred to drive for. Time and again, the answer was Lyft," wrote Vincent Letteri, director of private equity at KKR about the firm's decision to invest in Lyft. "In our analysis, we also saw a mature, focused management team that stands out."

Letteri cited Lyft's new Round Up & Donate program -- announced at the end of March. It's one way the company has worked to generate a more wholesome image for itself. It gives passengers the ability to round up fares to the dollar, donating that change to a charity of choice.

In addition to new funding from existing investors, Lyft's latest round of funding comes from new backers like KKR, Alliance Bernstein, Baillie Gifford, and Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board.

"We have big plans on the horizon, and will continue investing in new technology and hospitality in order to create experiences that passengers and drivers will love," said cofounder John Zimmer in a statement.

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Company's worth still more than $60B behind Uber - Tristatehomepage.com

Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions took office we have seen the removalof 46 U.S. attorneys, including two prominent African-Americans in Mississippi; the reversal of a policy that would have allowed federal contracts with the prison industry expire; ordered the review of consent decrees with major police departments; and most recently, ordered the end of a beneficial partnership between the government and the science community.

But the Washington Posthas detailed what could be worse than all of those things: a return to the bad old days of the war on drugs. The newspaper reports that Sessions has brought in Steven Cook, a federal prosecutor in Tennessee, to help him turn back some of the policies enacted by former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder regarding criminal justice. According to thePost, the two men plan on returning to the crime-fighting strategies of the 1980s and 90s, when crime was high, and so was the war on drugs, resulting in a detrimental net effect on communities of color.

Sessions spoke in Richmond, Va., a few weeks ago, noting that the country needs a return to the Just Say No approach to fighting drug trafficking. But far too many people remember that while late first lady Nancy Reagan asked this of the nations youth, urban violence skyrocketed as police, the prison system and the crack epidemic converged to decimate Black communities.

But noting the increase in homicides in cities such as Chicago, New Orleans and others, Sessions believes a tougher approach to crime is appropriate, despite the overall decreases in crime over the past 20 years.

If hard-line means that my focus is on protecting communities from violent felons and drug traffickers, then Im guilty, Cook said in an interview with thePost. I dont think thats hard-line. I think thats exactly what the American people expect of their Department of Justice.

In fact, during a panel by the Post in 2016, Cook was quoted as saying the federal criminal justice system is working as designed.

That design has a resulted in a total of 188,000 federal inmates alone, according to the Bureau of Prisons; 37 percent of them are Black. Thats only part of the number of incarcerated in the United States, the largest number in the world. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, there were 2.1million people either in prisonsor jails in 2015, almost 1 million of them Black. This figure doesnt count those under court or law enforcement supervision.

To put it in perspective, the total number of people incarcerated in the United States in 1980 was 503,000.

What we did, beginning in 1985, is put these laws to work, Cook boasted. We started filling federal prisons with the worst of the worst. And what happened next is exactly what Congress said they wanted to happen, and that is violent crime began in 1991 to turn around. By 2014, we had cut it in half.

Butstatistics show that manyof the people imprisoned during those days up until today have been low-level nonviolent offenders, not violent felons. They were largely driven by mandatory minimum sentences, for which organizations such as The Sentencing Project have advocated for elimination.

Obama and Holders policies included seeking the early release of certain nonviolent drug offenders and also a more intelligent approach to charging nonviolent offenders. Bills have also been introduced in Congress to reduce these sentences, rather than increase them. One in 2015 came close to passage, but Sessions spoke out against it, citing recent spikes in violent crime.

Violent crime and murders have increased across the country at almost alarming rates in some areas. Drug use and overdoses are occurring and dramatically increasing, said Sessions, who was then on the Senate Judiciary Committee and voted against it, the Post reported. Cook echoed the sentiment, saying it was the wrong time to weaken the last tools available to federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents.

The Trump administrations policy has been almost opposite of what Obamas was, favoring a heavy-handed approach to crime, particularly citing urban violence. Advocates of reducing mandatory minimums say Cook and Sessions will turn the government toward policies that have proven to tear apart families and harm communities.

If there was a flickering candle of hope that remained for sentencing reform, Cooks appointment was a fire hose, Kevin Ring, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), told The Post. There simply arent enough backhoes to build all the prisons it would take to realize Steve Cooks vision for America.

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How the Justice Department May Re-Declare the War on Drugs (and On Us) - EBONY.com

One of the Obama Justice Department's signature achievements was the creation of 14 police reform agreementscalled "consent decrees"with departments in cities including Baltimore; Ferguson, Missouri; and Cleveland that have allegedly been the site of systematic civil rights abuses. The Trump administration's Justice Department is led by Jeff Sessions, a 70-year-old white man from Alabama who is named after Jefferson Davis; Sessions is a little less of a leftist on civil rights issues than Obama and Eric Holder were. He has announced plans to "review" all of the consent decrees and has been trying to delay the adoption of Baltimore's, which was only agreed to this January. That delay effort ran into a wall Fridaya wall named federal judge James K. Bredar. Via the Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton:

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Judge Rejects Jeff Sessions' Bid to Back Out of Baltimore Civil Rights Deal in Quite Spicy Fashion - Slate Magazine (blog)