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Posted on 03/12/2017 9:06:00 PM PDT by Zakeet
Ten days into his tenure as United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara saw his political and prosecutorial worlds collide.
He convened a meeting to discuss a sensitive investigation of a Democratic donor with ties to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. Mr. Bharara had been Mr. Schumer's chief counsel, and Mr. Schumer had recommended Mr. Bharara for the prosecutorial post.
At the meeting, Mr. Bharara asked his prosecutors if there was enough evidence to make a case against the donor, Hassan Nemazee. One of the prosecutors, Daniel W. Levy, who is now in private practice, would recall years later that he had told Mr. Bharara that there had been a wide-reaching bank fraud.
"Then take him," Mr. Bharara said.
That case - one of his very first as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan - foreshadowed a theme that Mr. Bharara harped on throughout his tenure pursuing a host of public corruption, terrorism, civil rights and Wall Street cases: Politics and prosecution do not mix.
Yet now, more than seven years after taking office, Mr. Bharara, 48, finds himself on what appears to be the losing end of a quintessential political decision.
On Saturday, the Trump administration fired him after he refused to follow a Justice Department order to resign immediately.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The left is the rejected possessive boyfriend turned stalker.
They are behaving in a if I can’t have you then no one can manner.
They will not take no for an answer, and if they continue to hear no as a response to their irrational demands, they will become violent.
You make an accurate description. I get the feeling that people all across the country are getting tired of this juvenile crap. The lack of opinion polls right now, lead me to think democrats are in a death spiral.
So predictable.
You’re right, there is a distinct lack of polling data telling us what we should think X because everyone thinks X.
And yes people are very tired of it.
The left should realize that there is only one way to effectively deal with a person who refuses to take no for an answer, and they won’t like that way.
I thought Eliot Spitzer claimed he was the “Sheriff of Wall Street.” I hope Bharara goes the way of Spitzer.
One will never know how many pedophiles Preet protected...
Bharara was most likely paid off by the Uniparty.
Well, it’s all in the hands of Sessions ans Trump now. No more excuses, when it comes to going after the Clintons, pedos, and anyone else.
Remember that NYTimes headline when Bharara announces his run for mayor of New York City.
You got it right - if the clown was really ABOVE POLITICS, he would have simply resigned when asked, rather than put on a spectacle.
So why wouldn’t he take Trump’s call. Claims he couldn’t legally. Is that because he was investigating Trump’s associates??? Is that who wiretapped Trump tower?
He also shunned the idea that bankers who wrecked the economy and broke a million laws in the process should go to jail.
Bahara will go down in history as the guy who didn’t convict anybody on Wall Street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara
“Bharara served as the chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer and played a leading role in the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary investigation into the firings of United States attorneys.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy
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On last link, Read: “Issues in brief”
This may be the key. Generally I am conditioned to trust Sikh’s (his father is Sikh) but this part of his history is not reassuring.
“So why wouldn’t he take Trump’s call.”
It all smells like political grand-standing to me. He gets to imply that he was “investigating” Trump. Yeah, no one has ever investigated Trump but this silly prick, and if he’s taken off the case all sorts of “Russian connections” will forever remain hidden.
Whatever this hack claims, the reason he wouldn’t take Trump’s call is because not doing so helps to lend credence to his upcoming mayoral run.
'In the call on Thursday, a woman who said she was from the president’s office left a voice mail message asking Mr. Bharara to call back, according to a person to whom Mr. Bharara described the call. The person, who was not authorized to discuss the matter, spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mr. Bharara conferred with his deputy about whether it would be appropriate to return the call, the person said.
Then he and his deputy, Joon H. Kim, reviewed Justice Department memos governing such contacts, the person added. Because the caller had not specified what the president wanted to discuss, they concluded that it would be prudent to not return the call and to instead contact the office of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the person said.
Mr. Bharara called the chief of staff to the attorney general, Joseph H. Hunt. “Mr. Hunt was direct and clear in our conversation that, given written White House contacts policy, my position as a sitting U.S. attorney, and my office’s jurisdiction, it would be improper for me to speak directly to the sitting president without knowing the subject matter,” Mr. Bharara said in his statement.'
Of course it’s FAKE NEWS. Anyone who takes a job as a justice dept atty knows they will likely be asked to leave when the administrations change... if they don’t they are too stupid to pass the bar.
Another invented controversy by the MSM
He was the main person behind the prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza.
Clinton. Abedin. Weiner.
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