Preet Bharara

Preet Bharara

Preet Bharara was born on October 13th, 1968 and is currently 57 years old. Preet Bharara was born in Firozpur, Punjab, India. Bharara attended Harvard University where they received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude and Columbia Law School where they received a Juris Doctor degree.

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law is Bharara's book that overviews how the U.S. justice system works and why the rule of law is essential to society.

Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, called Doing Justice "a vivid memoir of a critical job, a primer on the toughest questions of prosecutorial ethics, and a reminder of the drama inherent in life in the courtroom arena."

Preet Bharara is best known as a former federal prosecutor who served as a U.S. Attorney for five years and then as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. During his time, his office prosecuted the Italian mafia. He also headed numerous counter-terrorism probes and cases. Bharara also prosecuted nearly one hundred executives on Wall Street for insider trading.

Bharara's career ended when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered all of the holdovers from the Obama administration to resign. Preet declined to resign and was fired the next day. He then released a statement and called serving as U.S. Attorney "the greatest honor of my professional life."

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