Preet Bharara is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He has prosecuted numerous Wall Street figures and terrorists, including those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 2006 trans-Atlantic plane bomb plot, and the 2010 Times Square vehicle bombing. He serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee for Securities and Financial Markets Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches securities regulation, white collar crime, and criminal law. Bharara was appointed to his current position by President Barack Obama in 2009
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Prior to becoming U.S. Attorney, he served as Associate White House Counsel to the President from 2007 to 2009. From 2002 to 2007, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
From 1998 to 2002, Bharara was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District’s Organized Crime Unit. From 1995 to 1998, he served as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney in the Office's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. From 1989 to 1995, he was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York's Economic Crimes Unit.
Prior to his government service, Mr. Bharara was a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City, where his practice focused on securities fraud matters and white collar criminal defense matters. He also served as a law clerk for Judge Richard J.
Arcara of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1994–1995.