Posted on 03/11/2017 11:43:30 AM PST by gwjack
Preet Bharara says he was fired "moments ago." He reiterated that he did not resign his post as Manhattan's federal prosecutor.
"I did not resign," Bharara said in a tweet. "Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
I doubt Christie is going to be indicted over anything. I’m not endorsing him ... just suggesting that he’s a natural fit for the position in many ways.
Banks didn't want to go into the risky loan business... there were hearings in Congress in the 1990's where they spoke out against that. Congress gave them and out by allowing them to package and resell those bad loans.
Barney Frank and others managed to keep Federal oversight away from the situation during GWB's terms... until the time was right, just before Obama's election... then all of a sudden it was "OMG! Look at this mess!"
Banks were threatened by discrimination lawsuits from Congress if they DIDN'T make those loans.
Dinesh ain’t God
Sure he’s on our side
But he says some PC crap sometimes I’m just like damn
I bet in private conversation he thinks Bannon is a white nationalist
And Green Frogs are mean
Preet is on Schumer’s payroll...and always has been...
He put Sheldon Silver away for reasons only Schumer and Preet really know about...yes he was ‘acting’ like he is going after the Mayor and the Gov. but remember the Gov. is ‘connected’ to the mob...
Preet is NO RUDY...and never will be...
Christie’s term ends this year, and he can’t run for re-election. The New York post would be a step up from his past Federal post as the U.S.
attorney for the New Jersey District. He probably wouldn’t want the job anyway. Lobbying is much more lucrative for people like him.
Who’s the most centrist NY Republican who could take the job, clean up NY and be able to run for Governor in four years and win?
Did you have to post this article from CNN, the fake news network?
Are u a big fan of CNN?
You are assuming “facts” about me not in evidence.
And attempting to put words in my mouth.
Buzz off bag of rocks xkaydet
"Heading the list is Pareet Bharara, who served as chief counsel to Sen. Charles Schumer during the time the New York senator led the Democratic battle against the Bush administration for employing political considerations in hiring and firing at the Justice Department."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/15/obama-announces-six-us-atty-nominations/
I do have a friend up there who's an accomplished stock fraud attorney... don't think he would want to get into politics though.
Post documentation to prove your statement
Trump knows New York politics. I’m confident he has a method here. Sure of it actually.
Fool? He was successfully nailing both sides of the aisle.
Preet Bharara screwed up big league in 2013:
‘Devyani Khobragade deputed to UN, had full immunity when arrested’
TNN, Times of India, December 27, 2013
Video: ‘Devyani Khobragade deputed to UN, had full immunity when arrested’02:55
NEW DELHI: In his zeal to net the big fish, US attorney Preet Bharara may have single-handedly endangered Indo-US relations. As it now turns out, diplomat Devyani Khobragade was accredited as an advisor to the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, allowing her full immunity from personal arrest or detention, when she was picked up from her children’s school by US authorities in early December.
Government sources said Khobragade was accredited advisor to the Indian mission to the UN on August 26, 2013 — to help the mission with work related to the General Assembly — and her accreditation was valid until December 31.
As sources here highlighted, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations Article 4 Section 11A specifies “immunities from personal arrest or detention and from the seizure of their personal baggage” of all representatives of members to the United Nations.
Section 16 of the same Article specifies that the expression “Representative” shall be deemed to include all delegates, deputy delegates, advisors, technical experts and secretaries of delegations. She was accredited as advisor on August 26 and was transferred to the permanent mission after the arrest and is currently holding the position of counsellor.
Because she was attached to the permanent mission only temporarily (until December 31), the State Department was not required to issue its own identity card and it is possible that they may not have known about Khobragade’s status. Sources said this was all the more reason for the State Department to have informed India about the move to arrest Khobragade. As the diplomat was working as acting consul general, the US ought to have notified India about her arrest under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The MEA joint secretary who handles the US, Vikram Doraiswamy, was in that country on the day Khobragade was arrested, but he wasn’t informed about it.
The alacrity with which the US “evacuated” Khobragade’s domestic help Sangeeta Richard’s family, days before the diplomat’s arrest, rattled New Delhi. Bharara later justified this in a statement saying the Justice Department was “compelled” to make sure that victim, witnesses and their families “are safe and secure while cases are pending”. As the case now unravels fast, several US officials, especially those who handled Khobragade’s arrest, may have opened themselves to claims for damages and liability.
The government has also discovered that the amount of $4,500 quoted by Bharara as salary promised to Sangeeta by Khobragade was actually just a mention of the employer’s salary on the help’s visa application form.
The State Department’s own guidelines on diplomatic and consular immunity emphasize that law enforcement officials need to be sensitive because short-term official visitors from other States to the United Nations or to international conferences convened by the UN may enjoy full diplomatic immunity equivalent to that afforded diplomatic agents. “Owing to the temporary nature of their visit, such officials will normally not have the usual official identity documents recognizable in the United States. Law enforcement officials (particularly in New York) should be sensitive to the existence of this situation and always coordinate with the US authorities indicated in the list of Useful Phone Numbers if confronted with an apparent offender appearing to fall into this category’,” it states.
A diplomat’s daughter, Krittika Biswas, had last year filed a lawsuit in a NYC court seeking $1.5 million as damages for her wrongful arrest.
Was he slow-walking the Clinton investigations??
Agreed.
Well, I learned something new. That’s one of the benefits of reading FR.
On the one hand, this US Attorney has done a lot of good. On the other hand, he prosecuted exceedingly heavily D’Souza who is even braver.
Prosecuting D’Souza was his job but the process and outcome were exceedingly partisan.
I imagine Bharara was trying to convince someone influential to his career. There’s a story here because of the contradictory behavior. Bharara can tell it but it won’t be believed unless independently confirmed by coworkers. Coworkers need to be interviewed.
I have lots of faith in Jeff Sessions to get someone in there that will grab the NY corruptocrats by the balls and put the Weiners, Clintons and assorted skunks in prison including blowing the lid off of the human trafficking crime.
Until President Trump writes an EO forbidding lobbyists from writing bills, the swamp cannot be drained!
A president can’t sign an EO binding on Congress.
Lobbyists use Congressional aides to ghostwrite their bills anyway.
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