Word: bharara
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...delivering a conviction will fall to the newly appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara. Previously an assistant attorney in the Southern District prosecuting the Mob, Bharara made his name as the Senate staffer who helped drive Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez from office by uncovering and investigating the Bush Administration's firing of prosecutors for allegedly political purposes. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...case is sending ripples throughout the world of hedge funds, a stratum of high finance that has thus far been largely untouched by the post-meltdown regulatory scrutiny and populist outrage directed at mainstream banks. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the charges. Indeed. While many hedge funds wouldn't know what to do with inside information if they tripped over it - the strategy at quantitatively oriented shops often fixates on building better computer models - plenty of others ply their trade by working the phones and calling...
Quotes About: "[The bank accounts] either never existed or had been closed years before Nemazee submitted the documents referencing those accounts." -U.S. attorney Preet Bharara on Aug. 26, describing how authorities believe Nemazee mislead Citibank with false financial documents in order to obtain a multi-million dollar loan...
Look closely during upcoming Hill hearings into the U.S. Attorneys scandal, and there, whispering in Senator Chuck Schumer's ear, you'll see the person who has quietly powered the Senate's expanding investigation. Preet Bharara, Schumer's chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee, prosecuted the Colombo and Gambino crime families as an assistant U.S. Attorney before Schumer hired him in January 2005. Early this year, he began picking up complaints about the Bush Administration's firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys from sources in the Justice Department and suggested Schumer hold hearings. Now he's the point...
Which puts him on the spot. His boss alleges that the Bush team may have obstructed justice by firing several of the prosecutors for investigating Republicans or for not investigating Democrats--a serious charge that the G.O.P. says is itself politically motivated. Bharara's job is to make the case. An early victory: he got four of the U.S. Attorneys to testify, and two of them said they had felt political pressure. Bharara's next step could challenge presidential power. The White House has said Rove will talk only in private and without a transcript, but Bharara plans to chip...