Preet Bharara
Lawyer and former US Attorney
Preet Bharara is an American lawyer who was US attorney for New York's Southern District between 2009 and 2017. He is the author of Doing Justice.
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Born 1968 in Firozpur, India
About Preet Bharara
Preet Bharara is an Indian-born American lawyer who studied at Harvard College and Columbia Law School. He began in private practice, then was an assistant US attorney between 2000 and 2005. After that he served as Senator Chuck Schumer's chief counsel until 2009. In 2009 President Barack Obama appointed him as US attorney for New York's Southern District. His office took on cases involving terrorism, insider trading, public corruption and organized crime, and he supervised more than 200 assistant US attorneys. He left the post in March 2017 after being dismissed. Bharara later joined the NYU School of Law faculty and has hosted the podcast Stay Tuned with Preet. Time magazine has named him among its 100 most influential people in the world.