NY Times: Schriro at Center of Rikers Violence Cover-up.

Connecticut state police head Dora Schriro was drawn deeper into a growing scandal over violence at New York’s Rikers Island during her tenure as the city corrections commissioner by a New York Times report in the paper’s Sunday edition. The riveting account of a determined cover-up by Schriro and others in the face of an internal corrections investigations and a probe by Federal law enforcement authorities will raise further questions on Schriro’s ability to lead Connecticut’s chief law enforcement agency.

Schriro’s response to questions from The Times do not instill confidence that candor and transparency are her hallmarks. Schriro used her authority as corrections commissioner to remove damaging revelations from her department’s investigations division’s report. The damaging edits were not provided to the United States attorney’s office during its investigation of the city corrections department.

Dan Lavallo has more.