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Preet Bharara Biography

Preetinder Singh Bharara (/priːt bəˈrɑːrə/; born October 13, 1968) is an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. As U.S. Attorney, Bharara earned a reputation of a "crusader" prosecutor. According to the New York Times, during his tenure he was one of "the nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street crime." Under Bharara, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and other offenses. He reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the United States, and closed multibillion-dollar hedge funds for activities including insider trading.

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History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Integrity, Responsibility, Challenges, Legislate, Shown

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

Against, Drug, Drug Cartels, Powerful, White, Worked

I would like to think that the level of aggressiveness in law enforcement will remain the same, when you're talking about things like keeping the markets fair and government honest. I don't foresee any departure from that, unless I'm missing something big.

Honest, Law, Missing, Remain, Things, Thinking

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

Businesses, Cyber, Cyber Attacks, Enforcement, Law, Sensitivity

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

Black, Financial, Information, Offensive, Respects, Unfair

Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U. S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.

Illegal, Insider Trading, May, See, Trading, Vantage Point

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.

Come, Laughter, Love, Nervous, Sound

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

Cyber, Gathering, Threat, United States, Worry

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

Companies, Directors, Dollars, Make, People

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.

Big, Bigs, Dinner, Eat, Lunch

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is.

Justice, Paid, President, Think, Thinking

I'm a big fan of meat.

Big, Bigs, Fan, Fans, Meat

I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.

Want, Apologizing, Enough, Subpoenas, Apologize

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.

Decides, Pleasure, President, Sunset, True, Trump

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.

Eat, Green, Green Things, Things, Vegetables

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.

New York, Rampant, Southern, Years, York