![]() ![]() His parents immigrated to the United States in 1970. He also launched a series of podcasts including Stay Tuned with Preet and Doing Justice.īharara was born in 1968 in Firozpur, Punjab, India, to a Sikh father and Hindu mother. He authored his first book, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, in 2019. He joined the New York University School of Law's criminal justice faculty. After leaving government, he went into academia. President Donald Trump, Bharara was dismissed after refusing to submit his resignation as part of the 2017 dismissal of U.S. The prosecution of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade by his office in 2013 led to a strain in India–United States relations. Following a 2013 Russian money laundering investigation, Russian officials had him permanently banned from entering Russia. Bharara occasionally pursued criminals extraterritorially. Known for his technocratic approach to prosecution, he routinely convicted both Democratic and Republican politicians on public corruption violations. Bharara closed multi-million dollar settlements with the four largest banks in the country, and, most notably, shut down multiple high-profile hedge funds. He prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and securities fraud using these legal methods. His office used a variety of unconventional tactics to close cases like wiretapping and asset seizure. Bharara similarly headed various counter-terrorism probes and cases, particularly against Al-Qaeda. His office heavily prosecuted the Italian mafia, convicting four out of the Five Families of drug trafficking, racketeering, and conspiracy to murder. Attorney, launching his career as a federal prosecutor. Department of Justice in 2004 as an assistant U.S. Bharara first entered the public sector as chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer when Schumer charged with investigating the 2006 presidential dismissal of U.S. Three years later he moved to Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, where he did white-collar legal defense work. Bharara graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and attended Columbia Law School before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a litigation associate in 1993. īorn in Firozpur, India, his family immigrated to New Jersey in 1970. According to The New York Times, Bharara was one of the "nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street crime" during his tenure as a federal prosecutor. Attorney for five years prior to leading the Southern District of New York. ![]() He is currently a partner at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Preetinder Singh Bharara ( / p r iː t b ə ˈ r ɑːr ə/ born October 13, 1968) is an Indian-born American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. ![]()
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