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Preet Bharara
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| United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York | |
| In office August 13, 2009 – March 11, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Michael J. Garcia |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Berman |
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Preetinder Singh Bharara
October 13, 1968 Firozpur, Punjab, India |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) Columbia University (JD) |
Preetinder Singh Bharara ( born October 13, 1968) is an Indian-born American lawyer and author. 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.
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Bharara with his wife at the 2012 Time 100 gala
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