Preet Bharara

Preetinder Singh Bharara (; born October 13, 1968) is an Indian-born American lawyer and writer. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for five years. In March 2017, he was controversially fired by President Donald Trump.

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.Benjamin Weiser & William K. Rashbaum, With Preet Bharara’s Dismissal, Storied Office Loses Its Top Fighter, The New York Times (March 10, 2017).

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