Preet Bharara
Preet Bharara
Preetinder Singh "Preet" Bhararais an Indian-born naturalized American attorney and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Earning a reputation of a "Crusader" prosecutor, his office has prosecuted diplomats and people in other countries. He prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives, reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the US, and closed multibillion-dollar hedge funds. He also prosecuted New York state politicians, including the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.