![]() ![]() ![]() 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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