Word: bharara
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Just weeks after he was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, Preet Bharara is being put to the test. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will be tried in a Manhattan federal court makes Bharara the man responsible for bringing an unabashed terrorist to justice. Bharara, who drew plaudits for his investigation into the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys under President George W. Bush, has burnished his reputation by prosecuting organized crime figures and white collar criminals. His newest assignment...
...fellow Monmouth County resident Bruce Springsteen, whose music sometimes fills Bharara's office when he works late. A framed photo of the Boss and Bharara's mother hangs in his lower-Manhattan office...
Quotes About: "I believe Preet Bharara will be one of the most outstanding U.S. Attorneys that the Southern District, or any other, has ever had. He is smart, hardworking, focused and unafraid to proceed wherever the facts of a case may lead." - Senator Chuck Schumer, in a statement after Barack Obama nominated Bharara to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Wall Street Journal...
...What former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani did to the Mob is what Preet Bharara will do to Wall Street." - Ravi Batra, an India-born defense lawyer in New York, after Bharara brought insider-trading charges against two high-profile businessmen from India, where Bharara was born (Wall Street Journal...
...this has been hard on the Justice Department internally is because so many people have respect for him ... We can't attack him as a political hack, because he's not. He's a political person, but first and foremost, he's a prosecutor." - Senior Bush official, on why Bharara was such a formidable adversary, during an interview with the Legal Times in April 2007 (Politico...