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#ShePersisted » 11 Mar 2017 3:15 pm » wrote:Update to this post: http://liberalforum.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 60#p888473



On November 30th, 2016, Preet Bharara was called to Trump Tower and asked by the incoming POTUS and his incoming AG if would stay on in his job as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY.

Yesterday he was asked to resign.
He refused to resign and was fired today.

Preet Bharara has prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives, reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the US and and closed multibillion-dollar hedge funds for illegal activities including insider trading.

He also prosecuted New York state politicians, including the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver (D) and the Majority Leader of State Senate, Dean Skelos (R) and at one time he even threatened to prosecute the governor of NY Andrew Cuomo (D) for alleged corruption.

Aside from prosecuting terrorists his office convicted more than 1,000 people charged in a large-scale drug and gang takedown.

And he also handled the criminal prosecutions of several employees of Bernie Madoff’s firm.

Bharara leaves behind him an upcoming trial scheduled for a month from now to decide the case of Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is under indictment for bid rigging and bribery, and an investigation into the fundraising activities of the current mayor of NYC Bill de Blasio.

When it comes to public corruption this guy is a bulldog and not afraid to go after members of either political party.

Seems to me that if you really wanted to 'drain the swamp' he is exactly who you would want as the US Attorney for such an important district.

So why did they first ask him to stay and then fire him?